I'm no mac guy myself but someone I know has one and wanted me to put windows on it for his other stuff via boot camp. After reading up a bit it seems you can install win2k after swapping out the ...

You are about to transfer some important files from an external drive to your Mac, and suddenly you get the message “Disk Not Ejected Properly” The transfer fails, and you have to start all over again ...

Don't try to eject a drive when you've got files open or are copying large amounts of data to or from it. If nothing seems to be using the drive, use Terminal to highlight any background services that ...

The need for the Eject command arises from two reasons. First, if there are open files on a disk, macOS refuses to let you eject it because doing so might result in data loss. Second, the Eject ...

From time-to-time, removable media (including CDs, DVDs and others) can refuse to eject via the normal Mac OS X methods -- pressing the keyboard eject key; using the Command-E keyboard combination; ...

You have several options for ejecting a disc from your Mac's optical drive. If the usual methods for disc ejection fail, you enter a command in the Terminal window to force the system to eject the ...

It is oh-so-tempting to just pull that flash drive out of your USB port when you’re done with it. But resist the urge! Unceremoniously disconnecting an external drive from your Mac can result in all ...

Every once and awhile, your Mac will decide not to eject a CD or DVD, for various reasons. It could be that it can’t detect the disk, it’s in an incompatible format, or that the disk itself is locking ...

Take a look at the top right corner of your keyboard. Unless you’re using a recent MacBook, you’ll see a vestigial Eject key. It used to be used to eject CDs, DVDs and even floppy disks back in the ...

If you’re a Mac OS X user, you may have noticed that sometimes disks don’t want to eject. Also, the operating system occasionally reports that a disk is in use when it’s not. Real Software has a ...

Whats the origins in Mac OS of dragging a disk to the trash in order to eject it? I was helping a new Mac user ( from the PC world) setup his MPB and he was perplexed about this. I told him I wasn't ...