I would like to clean install Lion into my Macintosh HD drive and leave the bootcamp drive without getting affected from it...is it possible or do i have to do the install on all the drive?
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iMac, Windows7
I followed instructions from Apple and reformated a second boot drive with GUID partitions, loaded my Snow Leopard OS and updated to the last version. Downloaded Lion and installed, set this second HDD as the new boot drive and waited - one monitor came up but then nothing happened for so long I went away. This has happened three times now and while I'm not watching my MacPro Xenon 8 core reboots from the Snow Leopard drive..
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Avid Media Composer 6, Mac OS X (10.6.8), MacPro 2.8 8 Core14Gb, 6Tb, AJA Io
This nonsense: To upgrade your Mac to OS X Lion, you must be running OS X Snow Leopard. If you have OS X v10.5 Leopard, purchase OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard now and install it on your Mac. Then buy OS X Lion as a digital download from the Mac App Store- seems very very un-apple.
So let me get this straight: I have to install an outdated OS (snow Leopard) in order to install Lion. ???
Remember when an OS was self contained, not an add-on upgrade feature?
I am puzzled- I would simply like to boot my mac pro from leopard (current os), and install LION on a newly placed, freshly formatted internal hard drive on same computer. Why would i need to have the intermediary step?
The folks at apple store couldn't answer- even the genius folk weren't sure- dissappointing at best-
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Mac Pro 3Ghz Quad Core Duo, Mac OS X (10.5.8), G4 MDD Dual 1Ghz Power PC
I saw this on the internet and I was wondering if anyone has been able to do that here. I would love to hear your experience with the procedure. Here is the link that I ran into. Really interesting [URL]
View 3 Replies View RelatedI upgraded to Lion after its release and ever since then my wifi has been driving me crazy. The wifi disconnects, and when I click on my network I get the error that the connection timed out. I'm always forced to turn the wifi off and then back on. It happened a ton, and consistently. It's extremely frustrating especially when I'm in the middle of a movie on my Apple TV and my iMac loses its internet and interrupts the show. Sometimes it happens three or more times during one show. So I decided to do a clean install of Lion. I made sure all my important documents were on my Hard Drive and even wrote a list out of every application that I use regularly. Then I completely reformatted my hard drive and did a clean install of Lion.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I'm both elated and pissy at the same time. Something happened to my mac when I was traveling, be it a latent hardware flaw, damage, or some other random act, and my mac OSX partition just, well, died. Unbootable, disk utility spends over a day trying to fix the boot record. The Bootcamp windows partition is fritzy, but it at least mounts and periodically can be booted from. I bought an external usb hard drive, loaded SL onto that, and have my mac back up and running again, but no data to speak of. So based on numerous recommendations, I paid good money to purchase Disk Warrior 4. Nothing, just told me the Macintosh HD partition on the hard drive was damaged, but that bootcamp could still be read.
View 3 Replies View RelatedOne of an ongoing series of issues moving to Lion (whatta workout!). This one involves Mail and iCloud. Porting my MobilMe to iCloud has been problematic - I' ve been asked to do it three or four times, with each time being succesful when viewing through Safari. But now I've realized that the iCloud mail is not being picked up by Mail on my iMac (2009). I go to System Preferences to see if I can do something about it, but iCloud isn't there - just MobileMe.
So I click on MobileMe and (again) it asks me to move everything to iCloud. I do this and some error is generated (can't get it to replicate & don't recall what it was), and I can't sign in - it doesn't recognize my login, although I'm still currently in iCloud via Safari - clear as mud? Yikes. Bottom line: Mail can't get at iCloud mail to download, and sign-in seems broken. In 25 years on a Mac, I've never come across this level of Windows-like challenges.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), System upgraded from 10.5
I've been using it since day one with Tiger and Leopard (31 Gb for windows), now I just wanna uninstall (erase) the windows part as I don't need it anymore and I could use the extra storage. I would also like to know how to wipe all the data and do a Clean install for MAC OSX as well , might need that for a better performance after all .
View 1 Replies View RelatedSimple question:
Here is my setup:
Hard drive 1: Mac OS
Hard drive 2: Windows (installed via Bootcamp)
If I do an Erase and Install of Mac OS on drive 1, will my Windows drive still show up if I go to System Preferences > Startup Disk?
I'm turning my old white imac into a bedroom plex viewer (it will eventually become a kitchen computer) and I want to do a clean install. This was my primary workstation for years before I got my Mac Pro and its just loaded with crap, all of which I've backed up to sort through later
It currently has Tiger and I want to upgrade to Leopard (I bought a family pack for it and my powerbook). I have a bootcamp XP partition which I would like to keep and not destroy. Can I do a clean install except for the windows partition? Or will doing a clean install destroy bootcamp.
I have a 15" MacBook Pro on my hands with some sort of HDD issue. The machine suddenly stopped booting and so my first thought was that the HDD has failed or that the filesystem had become corrupt. My files were all backed up, so I went ahead with a reformat and reinstallation of Lion. Â At firat Verify Disk, run from the Lion boot disk, reported numerous errors that Repair Disk couldn't fix. Fair enough. I swapped the old drive out for a new one that I knew to be good. (And, in the meantime, reformatted the old drive while attached externally to another machine without issues -- so maybe there's nothing wrong with this drive after all?) But no dice this way either: Lion reinstallation fails with an uninormative error message ("An error occurred while preparing the installation."). And if I attempt to alter the partition structure of either drive (either the known-good drive, or the original drive) or to erase the drive, I am told that the partition could not be unmounted. I find this odd, since I have booted off the Lion install DVD, not the HDD in question. Â
So, I'm left to conclude that something is faulty. I think I can rule out the drive itself -- I have two drives that exhibit the same symptoms, both of which behave fine in another MacBook Pro. I also think I can rule out the SATA controller/logic board since there are no evident IO problems with the DVD drive and, other than the HDD issues, I can run the Lion installer (as well as an Uuntu LiveCD) without difficulty. So what's left? Could it be the SATA cable?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
The internal hard drive on my early 2009 iMac is being replaced but I have to reinstall Snow Leopard myself.I did search in MRoogle and at Apple and cannot seem to find instructions on how to perform a clean Snow Leopard install on an iMac internal HD.
Can I do this? And if so how? Or do you think I should try and install Leopard on the existing Hd in the iMac? I still have these discs but have to get the SL applications install disc out of my drive (it's stuck and the iMac won't boot past the blue screen).
After reinstall of OS X 10.7.4, I restored an older copy from Time Machine backup. I want to completely replace the current "Macintosh HD" folder with the folder that TM put inside it. I created a separate user account, that did not exist before to do it. Do I need to create a root account? Is there an easy way to copy /Macintosh HD/Macintosh HD/ to /Macintosh HD/?
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iMac (24-inch), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
This should be easy but I can't seem to get it!Â
My 3 year old keeps ejecting my drives because they exist as icons on the desktop.Â
I'd like to remove those drive icons from my desktop but still show them as mounted in my finder sidebar.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 16G of RAM, Pegasus R4
i bought osx lion a month ago and cannot figure out how to download it to my macbook os. i have been told to download it to the macintosh hd drive on my macbook but it will not let me. What can i do. i have 7gb available, i have the whatever core i have to have.Â
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MacBook Pro
I have a Windows PC with Vista and I am trying to install Vista on the MBA through Remote Disc. I booted from the Leopard Disc 1 and deleted the partitions and also chose MBR (for windows) in the advanced options while doing so. But I am unable to boot from the Vista CD thru the Wifi Network. On reboot (while holding Atl) it only recognizes the Mac OS CD, when in the drive shared drive of the PC.
I just want a clean vista install with no Mac. It was too much for me to start learning now.
I've seeing a problem with Time Machine with one of my external drives. Here's my setup:MBP 15"OSX 10.7.4Work external drive - Seagate GoFlex, via USBHome external drive - Western Digital Green, via USBÂ
I had been using both home and work drives as Time Machine backups, and things were working fine. I would have to re-designate the appropriate Time Machine backup drive when I changed locations, but everything was working.Â
The problem:When I attach the work drive and point Time Machine to the drive, it works. When I eject the work drive, the Time Machine prefs panel shows "Time Machine - work" in greyed out text as the target drive, reflecting that the drive is not available.When I attach the home drive and point Time Machine to the drive, it works. But when I eject the home drive, the Time Machine prefs panel shows "Macintosh HD" in normal text as the target drive. Worse, I think it actually attempts to back up to the internal drive, because at the next Time Machine backup interval, I get a "The identity of the backup disk has changed" error from Time Machine.Â
I've tried a full reset of Time Machine by deleting the prefs file. I've also tried verifying the home external disk.Â
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I am doing a clean install on my Mac Pro and want to bring in my user directory onto a 2nd drive (where it was originally).During the install, should I point to an external drive where I know have my user directory cloned and allow OS X to restore it?Should I just copy my user directory to the 2nd drive after doing the install?
Other caveats? I can foresee all sorts of potential problems. Anybody have any experience with this?I know that I will lose my apps in the process.
I'm drop shipping my 27" imac refurb to OWC for them to install the sdd, ram, etc. Someone here said OWC will clone the hd to the ssd and then the end user went back and did a clean install. Wouldn't it be better if OWC just installed the SSD, left it clean, and I did the install from the disks myself? I mean I assume it's a time issue why they would clone, not fresh install. I have plenty of time to do it. Is it not that simple? Is there something more fangled to it, or is it just running the disks and doing what they say?
View 4 Replies View RelatedI'm in a pretty big mess right now. I was using boot camp with lion and Windows 7 no problem and I wanted to edit the sizes of the partions. It didnt go so well and I ended up losing both operating systems. Now the big problem is when I boot up from the recovery partion I cannot do any sort of formating from the disk utility, it always give me some sort of error. When I try to install lion via web there is no partion that I can Install it to. I can install Windows no problem from a USB drive whcih I have done already. When managing the disk in windows I see 2 of the windows partions, the mac recovery partion, and an 80 GB partition that I can format but I cannot do anything else with. I dont have any images or recovery devices other than the recovery partition.how to get the drive back to mac format so I can re install lion.
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Trying to do a clean install with recovery USB.
View 13 Replies View RelatedIt shipped wth Lion. I want to basically re-image it now and start again but was wondering if there is any way around having to download the 4GB install package?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI would like to have a fresh installation how can I do it?Â
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I have an old Macbook running Snow Leopard and the HDD has a bunch of junk on it; how would I go about wiping the HDD and installing Lion on it?
View 6 Replies View RelatedI inadvertently did something wrong - and now have malware on my machine. How do I get rid of it? And how does one do a clean install of operating systems OSX 10.9?
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhat I ant to do is copy everything from my desktop (MacPro) running snow leopard to my laptop currently running lion (macbook Pro). I tried migration assistant but everything looks the same. I have hardly any space left so it did transfer but no idea where or how to combine.
Can i wipe it and start over and copy all files and apps from desktop?
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How do you do a clean install of Lion downloaded from the App store. I downloaded and it installed but never was there a time of the installation it gave me an option to do a clean install.
Info:Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I'm selling my previous mac (24" 2008 model). What is teh best way to wipe all data and re-install Lion?
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I'm thinking if I should Clean Install Mountain Lion or Upgrade from Lion OSX.
I have only recently cleanly re-installed Lion OSX. But in a few weeks time, M.Lion will be released
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), (RAM - 4Gb)
I have a problem with the recovery partition on my SSD. There is a recovery partition. I can se it in the disk utility but it's seems like it's not working. When I boot the system with the option key I can select the recovery hd but when I do I just get a grey screen with a "forbidden" sign and the computer turns it self off a minute later. I just bought a brand new Macbook Pro 13". I swapped the internal drive to a Samsung 830 SSD but the only way i could get it to boot was to clone the original disk to my new SSD, otherwise the computer couldn't find the drive.
It just booted up with the same grey screen with the "forbidden" sign just like when i now try to boot into the recovery HD. I made a bootstick with the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant v1.0 but it can't boot from that one either. I even made it on a different computer running Lion with a working Recovery HD. I also tried to boot from a Lion dvd (and usb) I made from the image I got from the appstore but of course, the same grey sceen appears. The question now is; how do I get a working Recovery HD in Lion so I can make a clean install? The system is running fine with the clone from the original disk but I want that Recovery HD.
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Mac OS X (10.7.4)
