Intel Mac :: Reformat Mid 2011, When Restart Holding Cmd And R?
Jun 30, 2012Holding down those keys does start OSX utilities, cannot reformat
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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Intel Mac :: No Boot With: Restart Holding Cmd +r?
Mar 17, 2012I verified the hard disc on my mid 2010 3.06 ghz 10.7.3 iMac this morning to be greeted by a box telling me this disc was corrupt and that I needed to restart while holding cmd+r until the apple logo appears then to repair the disc.at this point I would like to say that I am posting this from said iMac and it boots up normally and runs fine.but,when I start it holding cmd and 'r' let go at the apple logo the cog starts turning below the apple for about 10/15 seconds then the apple is replaced with a circle with a line through it (the cog keeps on spinning below it) it seems like it would just sit like this for ever - after about 5 mins I held the power button, turned it off, turned it back on again and just left it to boot up normally - no problems. thought I would try it again - turned it off, held cmd and r exactly the same as before......Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
OS X Mavericks :: Even When Holding Down Option Key During Restart Can't Get Flashing File Icon To Go Away
Sep 8, 2014I have tried numerous times to restart my macbook pro to get to the startup manager. And even when holding down the option key, it will just take me back to the flashing file with a question mark in it.
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MacBook Pro
MacBook :: 2011 Will Not Restart From Install Disks
May 31, 2012I have had problems with my macbook grey screening and having to shut down by holding down the power button (I get the screen with the instructions how to reboot in 5 different languages). When I start it up again I get the panic report from the shut down.In Utilities, Disk Utility I ran the Repair Disk and received the message that the disk was damaged and I had to do the reapir from the install disk.Â
So I put the install disk in (came with the laptop, 10.6) and I tried to repair the disk using the disk utility from the install disk. Two problems: when I insert the disk, restart while holding down the 'C' key, nothing happens (stays at the grey screen) until I let go of the 'C' key and then I get another Panic and have to reboot manually. So I tried inserting the install disk with the laptop already on and clicking on the disk to hopefully get to the disk utility or at least reinstall the OS, which leads to problem two: I receive the message 'Mac OS X 10.6 cannot be installed on this computer.'Â My laptop is currently running Snow Leopard 10.6.8.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
MacBook Pro :: 2011 13" Won't Install Updates When Try To Restart It
Apr 28, 2012i have been trying to install software updates but everytime my computer restarts it doesnt install them and it just goes straight to my login
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MacBook Pro
MacBook Pro :: 15-inch Late 2011 Must Restart To Access Internet?
Mar 12, 2012I bought my Macbook Pro in January of this year and had to get the hard drive replaced over the weekend. It has been working fine except every-time I want to access the internet (using Safari) from sleep mode it will not connect to the internet and I have to restart the computer. The wireless sgnal in the top right corner by the clock will show maximum strength, but refuses to go to any websites. Never happened before my hard drive crashed and it's getting annoying to have to restart the computer every time I want to go on the internet.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Grey Screen And Kernel After Holding Down Shift?
Jul 5, 2012My iMac was performing ver slowly so I restarted. After that cannot get passed the grey screen.I tried holding the shift button down to go into safe mode but a kernel screen starts ( black and dos type commands appear)
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
Intel Mac :: Can't Reformat Or Delete A Partition
Jul 2, 2012I have an early 2006 iMac with the notorious GPU issues so after replacing it with a new Mac Mini it's time to sell the iMac for parts. I'm trying to reformat the hard drive with no success - I boot off of the original Mac OS X 10.4.4 CD, launch Disk Utility, but whenever I try to erase the disk or delete the partition the program freezes. I've even tried using GParted Live! CD to delete the partition and the same thing happens - whenever I assess it, it locks GParted as well! Funny thing is, I can still boot off of the hard drive just fine.I should mention that the hard drive has 10.5.8 installed - perhaps there's an incompatibility between Disk Utility 10.4 and the installed OS?
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Intel Mac :: How To Completely Reformat HD To Reinstall From Backup
Apr 6, 2012I installed windows through bootcamp and partitioned my hard drive to about a 300Gb/600Gb windows and mac respectively. After a while i decided to remove the windows partition. As I was repartitioning the Hard Drive through disk utility my mac froze and went to a gray screen so I restarted it. Disk utility says that the process finished however it does not recognise the 300Gb I used for windows. i.e. Disk utility says there is one partition, and that the total capacity is about 1Tb.
However the spaced used and space available adds up to 600Gb, its like the mac thinks that it is repartitoned to just 1, but not allowing me to acces that 300Gb. so my question is how do i completely strip back the hard drive to basic factory settings (iv backed up all my data to an external drive) so I can reinstall the mac operating system and repair the drive to make use of its full capacity, then re install from my backed up external drive.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: External Hard Drive Reformat?
Jun 29, 2012I purchased an external hard drive ( a Seagate 2 TB Expansion Desktop Drive) and was told by the MAC rep in the store to perform the following simple task to reformat the disk so I could drag and drop files from my iMAC and store them on the external hard drive:Â
1. Go to Disk Utility
2. Choose the External Hard Drive
3. Select Erase
4. Select MAC OS Extended (Journaled)
5. Click on Erase buttonÂ
Unfortunately when I do this, I get the following error: Disk erase Failed with Error: File system formatter failed? I have Mac OS X (10.5.8)...
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Intel Mac :: Reformat Or Partition Computer Without Loosing All My Files?
Jun 3, 2012Can I reformat or partition my computer without loosing all my files?
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iMac (24-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.4), 4 GB 800 MHz DDR2 SDRAM
IMac (Intel) :: Reformat Old And Restore Files On New System
Aug 27, 2014I have an early 2008 iMac which I am about to sell and replace with a newer version. I regularly use Time Machine to do back ups. What's the best way to reformat my old machine before I sell and also restore all my files onto the new iMac?
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IMac, Macbook Pro
Intel Mac :: Completely Reformat The Mac Hard Drive So Can Re-install From A Backup
May 19, 2012The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired. It's asking to run a recovery. Is this going to erase everything??Â
My storage says it's using 434GB of other. Whatever other is.....did I get a virus?
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MacBook
Pro, iOS 5.1.1, Storage/Repair/Disk Utility
Intel Mac :: Cn't Use It With My Mid 2011
May 28, 2012When i put my extaernal mic in to the sound-in port.. My imac doesen't seems to recognize any mic.
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Intel Mac :: Upgrade Cpu From Mid 2011?
Feb 2, 2012Want to upgrade from 2,7GHz Intel quad-core Core i5 to 2,8 GHz quad-core Intel Core i7.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), iOS 5.0.1
Intel Mac :: Connect The 2011 To TV?
Apr 7, 2012What's the best way to connect my iMac (2011) to my TV? My TV has HDMI inputs and my iMac has Thunderbolt ports, so I know I can connect them with a cable, but they are about 20 feet apart and I think that's too long for a cable run.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Intel Mac :: Will Office 2011 Be On The IPad?
Feb 18, 2012does any one now the date that ipad will have and app for office 2011 as I want to use exel cheers
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iPad 2
Intel Mac :: Installing 10.6 On Preinstalled 10.7 Mid 2011?
Apr 5, 2012As far as I'm aware the hardware is not an issue it's the firware lacking the drivers to be able to install Snow Leopard. I've tried 10.6, 10.6.3 & 10.6.7 to no avail.Â
I've also tried formatting the drive and booting the dmg's like that also to no avail, now backing up to lion via time machine.Â
Years of using windows being easily configurable and moving to mac 4 months ago finding that it quite restrictive but probably why its safer as an OS is frustrating.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Noisy Fan 27 Inch 2011?
May 6, 2012I have a mid 2011 27inch i5 desktop and the fan noise is so bad.. I've had 5 macs and they have all been pretty quite..This thing is unbelievable. Had to have the HD replaced because it was making a grinding noise, fixed now but the fan drives me mad.. took it to apple and they say this is normal. $1800.00 for state of the art technology... having had a few imacs i would expect the same as what i got last time, thats why i bought another one.. But this is definitely not what i got last time !I sit at this thing 10 hrs a day sometimes... i can't believe i piad 1800 bucks for something that makes more noise than my air con in silent mode... Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
Intel Mac :: Connect Xbox 360 To 21.5 (mid 2011)?
Jun 6, 2012How do i connect my Xbox 360 to my IMAC 21.5 (mid 2011)? my imac does have the thunderbolt port. I was wondering if it works when i use the hdmi cable to connect the xbox to (hdmi to thunderbolt) adapter then to my IMAC. based on what i have read, this version of imac supports target display mode.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
Intel Mac :: Memory Upgrade For Mid 2011?
Jun 20, 2012I want to upgrade to the max memory and need to know how much and what type of memory sticks I need.
Memory installed is:Memory 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3System report:Model Name: iMac Model Identifier: iMac12,2 Processor Name:Intel Core i5 Processor Speed:2.7 GHz Number of Processors:1 Total Number of Cores:4 L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB L3 Cache: 6 MB Memory:8 GB Boot ROM Version: IM121.0047.B1F SMC Version (system): 1.72f2
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.7GHz Quad, Core I5, 2x4GB
Intel Mac :: Kernel Panic When Shutting Down 21 2011?
Feb 10, 2012Off-late almost everytime I am getting kernal panics when I shut down my iMac 21 2011 model. After booting back here is the problem report that comes up. I could'nt make head or tail of it, could anybody help me out here. Â
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 591345 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 9
Anonymous UUID: 3C133529-E586-47C7-8799-ACB548B7537AÂ Â
Sat Feb 11 11:11:39 2012
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff80002c266d): Kernel trap at 0xffffff7f820f0ff8, type 14=page fault, registers:
[code]...
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
Intel Mac :: Have IMovie On New Mid 2011 - Need Screen Flow Too?
Apr 4, 2012my mac has imovie ..if i want to record videos of content on my screen with me doing a voiceover do i need screenflow?
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Mid 2011 Graphics Card Overheating?
Apr 13, 2012I haven't installed any new software in the last 3 months. About 2 weeks ago the iMac shut down on me out of nowhere. I put my hand on the top-rear and it was really really hot. I left it for an hour and tried to start it up again. A progress bar showed underneith the apple logo at boot up. When it got to about 15% it shut the computer off again. It did this over and over. I restored from a Time Machine back-up and it worked. I started monitoring the temperatures inside and it seems my graphics card (the AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1024 MB) runs constantly around 80 degrees C. That's hot. I'm not doing anything besides browsing and listening to iTunes so I don't know what could be stressing the GC. Nothing is out of the ordinary in the Activity Monitor.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7), i5 3.1 ghz, 1gb AMD 6970m
Intel Mac :: 2011 Keeps Spitting Out CD/DVD (burned And Audio)?
Apr 13, 2012The computer will not accept any discs put in the drive. It will immediately spit them out.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3), 2.5 GHz Intel, 4 GB
Intel Mac :: Install Office 2011 14.2.1 Update?
May 6, 2012I am trying to install Microsoft's latest update for Office 11 and I can't close Microsoft database daemon or Sync-services app to install MS Office 2011 14.2.1 update. No idea how to close it. I read that in some cases an older version of Entourage caused some problems so I deleted Entourage - can't use it anyway - but that didn't work. Have rebooted several times over several days and same problem remains.Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Intel Mac :: Set Firmware Password For More Security For Mid 2011?
Jun 5, 2012Is it a good idea to set Firmware password for more security for iMac Mid 2011? What's the benefits and disadvantages? Can i reset or remove The password if i want?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.2), 21.5" Mid 2011
Intel Mac :: 2011 27" I5 Slowness Overtime?
Jun 15, 2012This is my 2nd iMac and it seems like they run so fast out of the box and overtime they slow down dramatically. Is it because the more programs that I install the slower it runs?What can I do to get it back to it's former glory?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.6), 27" iMac i5 Mid 2011 16GB
Intel Mac :: 2011 IMac Finder Freezes
Jun 18, 2012I am having finder freeze all the time.I am using Lion and am new to Mac in general.I try to force quit and relaunch but it will hang the system forcing me to power it down.
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iMac, iOS 5.1.1
Intel Mac :: 2011 14 Months Old Won't Startup - Keeps Powering Off?
Jun 19, 2012A few weeks ago I had problems with my iMac freezing and also had a few Kernal panics. I ended up doing a disk utility with the actual startup disk and since then it worked for about 10 days but just recently froze again (while in Firefox) and started making a continuous loud beeping from the speakers and kind of a staticy sound...so I turned it off but now it won't stay started. I hear the "bong" noise and then see the apple logo and the bar under apple logo starts to come on but disappears And then it powers down to black screen and off. I have tried putting disk in but it spits it out at startup I have also tried Resetting pram and smc...I hope I did that correctly I believe I did? What other steps can I take?
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iMac
