How to open the Western Digital My Book (Studio) External drive case…. I’m considering upgrading it to a 2 Tb drive, and couldn’t find how to open it… Â The new Studio 2 drive looks excellent with it’s easy open, and customer supported drive swapping…. But the original isn’t documented, but this web page seems to […]
The system version is on the Installer disc, at: /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion.plist You can get the specific information with this command: defaults read /path/to/mount/System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion ProductBuildVersion While the above describes how to do it on media, you can also test your local hard drive. Â See below: [nerv:/system/library/CoreServices] benjamin% defaults read /System/Library/CoreServices/SystemVersion { ProductBuildVersion = 10F569; ProductCopyright = “1983-2010 […]
For example: 9/4/10 1:48:31 PM KernelEventAgent[72] tid 00000000 received event(s) VQ_LOWDISK, VQ_VERYLOWDISK (516) This indicates that Mac OS X has detected a drive (hard drive, RAM drive, Zip Drive, etc), that is very low or out of disk space. Â If this is your boot drive, you will receive a POP up warning message that the […]
After an unusually long wait, Apple has finally released updated models of its MacBook Pro line of notebooks. The 15′ and 17′ models offer the latest Core i5 and i7 processors, though the 13′ model still uses a Core 2 Duo processor. But new processors aren’t the only improvement; Apple has also seen fit to […]
Goody! Â A new VMware Fusion 3.1 Beta Now Available!!! Â Why am I excited? Â Well, I prefer Parallels, but for some reason Parallels doesn’t work on my Mac Pro. Â It complains that the hard drive is unavailable, and can’t be found.. Â Yet, if I make any configuration changes, it now magically works, until I reboot the […]
i added another hard disk on my computer, but when I opened My Computer the extra hard disk was not on there. What’s  happening? Chances are you added the hard drive correctly, but you haven’t finished installing it in Windows…It probably needs to be formatted. Right-click on My Computer and select manage Expand out Storage […]
This assumes that the hard drive is physically intact. Put the drive into a 2.5″ enclosure and hook it up to another Mac. First, attempt to open the Disk Image, by going to the new drive’s USERS folder, and double clicking on the File Vault users disk image (it should be named the same as […]
Take this quote from Macworld: When we connected the MacBook Pro to a 2TB Western Digital My Book Studio drive and copied a 1GB file to it from the internal hard drive, we found that it took 23 percent less time over FireWire 400 than over USB 2.0. Duplicating that file using FireWire 400 on […]