Re: unconnected drives show up in DiskUtility

[Geke]

 Try starting in safe mode: hold down the shift key while booting.

Thanks Bruce. Only, I couldn’t try it out: a day or two later, when my
busy friend finally gave me a chance to do a safe boot on his MacBook,
I quickly checked Disk Utility before restarting, and those drives
were gone. The mystery remains...

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Re: unconnected drives show up in DiskUtility

[Bruce Johnson]

On Jan 19, 2011, at 11:09 AM, Geke wrote:

 
 And how do I get rid of them? Is there a cache or something to clean?
 It seems his computer has slowed down because of this ghost drives.
 
 Just to make sure: I’m talking drives, not volumes.

Try starting in safe mode: hold down the shift key while booting.

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