startup disk

Hi, I bought a new (bigger) SSD and using carbon copy cloner transferred my OS to the new SSD. I made my new SSD the startup disk and I booted from the new SSD. Everything is working great so I wanted to erase my old SSD. When I go to Disk Utility and try to erase the old SSD it says 'Failed to...

On my existing real Mac Pro 2008, when I want to change the boot volume, I just use preferences. I can easily Carbon Copy to a different volume and can then use Preferences to change the boot volume to test it. With a Hackintosh, I'm unclear on what I should do? Do I change the boot volume in...

Background: I've finally gotten my dual boot behaving properly after a bit of work but I have one last wish. Problem: I can now use the Startup Disk pane in OS X to tell Clover to boot Win 7 and it works fine. When I'm in Windows, is there any way I can do the reverse to get back into El...

Noob here, first time on forums. Bought a used working hack for a home-video editing machine. Runs great love it. OSX 10.8.2 (installed using multibeast) GA-EX58-UD 2.83 Intel Core i7 GeForce 9800 GTX + 512 24 gb ram I want to put OS & apps on an SSD (2.5 OWC 240 mercury electra 3g)...

If you look at the screenshots in order, the information shown doesn't quite add up. These are the important things stated in the pictures: First picture: Macintosh SSD - Space Used Up = 117.45 GB Second picture: Users = 99.11 GB Third picture: (Username) = 97.02 GB Fourth picture: 0.000412...