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Whatever you need, we have a storage and hard drive ugrade solution for. If youre erasing an external drive, make sure that its connected directly to your mac using a cable that you know is good. On your mac, make sure youre connected to your external storage device for example, using a usb cable or over a network. In the process, the company quietly put to bed the last remaining mac computers that include an internal superdrive. Your online video gave me the confidence to replace the drive myself. If your disk or volume still doesnt appear in disk utility, or disk utility reports that the erase process failed, your disk or mac might need service. If your mac is more than a few years old, you can almost certainly upgrade the hard drive. The apple usb superdrive is compatible with mac models from 2008 and later that dont have a builtin optical drive. With up to 200gb available, you can store up to 62,000 photos, 32,000 songs or 1920 minutes of full hd video. Disk utility also still shows no internal hard drive. The white unibody inch macbook models the macbook core 2 duo 2.
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