external hard drive

Hello Everyone, I am currently attempting to load my samples and presets for music production onto my Hackintosh and it appears that the external drive is not appearing on the desktop or even in disk utility. I was looking to reformat the drive to Mac OS Journaled, but since the system is not...

Hello everyone, I have been having a tough time with a certain bug within my Hackintosh system. Everything is fully functioning, including USB's however it fails to work when I have large external hard drives attached. Weirdly, the BIOS recognizes the hard drives as USB Mass Storage Devices...

Hi there, I've recently finished my first Hackintosh build and I am having an issue getting my external hard drives to show up in Finder and Disk Utility. From posts I've read of people having similar problems to me, the common solution is to change XCHI Mode in the BIOS of the motherboard...

Hey guys I've been having some issues with the usb ports on my hackintosh. Basically I have two external hard drives (compatible w usb 3.0) but I did the test with blackmagic and it's says that I have 36mbs read and write. What should I try to fix this? When I am on windows I get around 110...

Hi, i have an Alienware R3 17 with GTX 970m, i'm planning to install Sierra on an External HD(my old macbook pro 2010 hd with a sata to usb 3.0) but i have a question after i set unibeast for the bootable usb, i can choose to boot from this hd? and after restore this and install Mac OS Sierra by...

Hi everyone, I have a Buffalo External HDD that formatted to OSX Extended (Journal) and when i plug it through USB it doesn't shows up on disk utility. But, when I restart my mac with External HDD plugged in, it shows as internal storage after i log in to mac. And then, when I try to plug in the...

Hey all! I have recently built my new rig running the latest version of El Capitan. After going through all of the post installation, everything has been working flawlessly; however, I have recently attempted to plug in my Lacie external hard drive into the USB 3 port to transfer some files from...

Hello! It's been forever since I've been on here, but I'm back in it since I want to update my system to the latest. When I built my first mac, I finally had a working system, minus some caveats (like sound/imessage/wake from sleep issues, etc).... I certainly didn't want to tinker more if my...

Everything in my hackintosh was working fine, until... I installed a OSX based driver for an external drive (Samsung D3). Now I get "system uptime in nanoseconds" whenever I start the computer. I know that it 100% has to do with this driver i just installed. Question is, how do I delete this...

Does anyone know how I can put OSX on an external hard drive and have windows on the main computer? Also will it perform very "choppy"? ~ThinkTG

I am trying to dual boot my Samsung Series 9 NP900X3C-A01US. So I am currently running Windows 7 on my series 9 and I want to be able to boot from my external hard drive since I dont have a optical drive. So basically, I want to be able to run windows 7, and when I have my external hard...