So I’ve decided to make a USB boot drive with lion just in case of my MacBook Pro HDD decides to die on me..
Fired up Disk Utility, created a Mac OS X partition on the thumbdrive and restored the lion dmg (InstallESD.dmg) to the drive.
Source: Creating a bootable OS X 10.7 Lion disc (holgr.com)
Some time ago I found that when I tried to eject any external drives from my Mac it always failed on the first try, but succeeded on the second.
This is very annoying, as I’m using alfred to speed up pretty much every command on my Mac. So basically I had to type “eje” (the start of the Eject command) two times instead of one..
It turned out that CleanMyMac checked the drives as they where being unmounted, thereby locking the drive. So I disabled these settings and voila, everything worked.
This is the first thing I removed from my Mac OS X Lion install.
How to remove the Login Window entry from the OS X Lion Menu Bar – Simple Help.