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Having bought my second Western Digital MyBook 1TB, I faced an annoying issue: I couldn’t get rid of the virtual CD. This may seem a small problem, but I dislike when I have to deal with stuff, I didn’t ask for in the first place.

My first thought was to delete the part of my hard drive that contains the files. That didn’t work out well, not to say not at all. Not even my beloved gParted could get rid of it.

Step two was the visit of Western Digital’s website for more information. (Only a geek would understand why this wasn’t my first step. ;) ) I ended up here but wasn’t happy with that solution. Yeah I know, I’m difficult.

My final solution was the cleanest in my opinion and includes typing the following into the terminal:

sudo sh -c "echo UUID=`diskutil info /Volumes/WD\ SmartWare/ | grep 'UUID' | awk '{print $NF}'` none hfs rw,noauto 0 0 >> /etc/fstab"

After a restart there’s nothing but a clean desktop and my Finder isn’t unnecessarily cluttered either.

During my pre-Christmas cleaning I decided to sort my Mac mini as well. I really like it clean and fast. A nice article at lifehacker.com may also help you if you find your Mac sluggish, or if you simply are a neat ‘freak’ like me. :)

The article describes how you can find programs that take a lot of your system resources, and how you can make your Mac start faster by disabling programs that start automatically when you switch on your system. On top of that, software that will delete unnecessary left-overs from uninstalled apps and system checks is introduced to you. While the article isn’t the newest, the hints offered are still up-to-date.