MacBook Air :: Reformat - Use As USB Reinstall Drive?

Nov 7, 2010

Is this posible? Could I use it as a normal USB drive?

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Reformat A Drive And Reinstall It?

Feb 17, 2012

I need to reformat a drive and reinstall the OS.  I and using Avid Media Composer and it is not qualified on 10.7.3.  How can I install 10.7.2 of a new drive? 

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Mac Pro (Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.2)

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MacBook Pro :: Reformat HDD And Reinstall Lion?

Apr 7, 2012

How do I reformat my HD and reinstall Mac OSX Lion? I somehow corrupted username.sparsebundle in FileVault and therefore can't log in. I need to reformat the HD and reinstall the latest OS. (I do not want to use FileVault going forward.)

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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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MacBook Pro :: How To Reformat HD To Get Rid Of Virus And Reinstall Lion

Jun 10, 2012

How do I reformat my hard disk to get rid of a virus and reinstall lion on my macbook pro ..??

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), I bought a usb stick with the OS X

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Laptops :: How To Reformat IBook To Reinstall OS X 3.9

Feb 17, 2010

Someone has suggested that I reformat my system to help eliminate problems with my version update. I have an ibook G3 128+512 mg ram 900 mhz white case 12' It had a Mac osX 2.8 verion. I updated to Mac OS X 3.9. I have had problems ever since with firefox versions not working and crashing. I have not been able to use flash or adobe flash because they won;t load. Flash or adobe flash won't load on Safari, either. How do I a reformat. Will this erase my hard drive. Is this the same as a clean install.

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Mac Pro :: Reformat HDD And Use Time Machine To Reinstall Applications?

Nov 18, 2009

I need to reformat my Boot drive because Ubuntu messed up my Master Boot Record and I can not run Boot Camp. I have a time machine back up of all my applications. Can I use this once I reinstall OSX?

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Intel Mac :: How To Completely Reformat HD To Reinstall From Backup

Apr 6, 2012

I 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)

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OS X V10.7 Lion :: Reformat MacBook Air From Mac Extended To Mac Extended (Journaled) So It Will Boot / Reinstall It?

Jul 5, 2012

How do I reformat a MacBook Air from Mac OS Extended to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) so it will boot / reinstall Lion? 

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)

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MacBook Pro :: Reformat My Hard Drive?

Feb 5, 2012

How do I reformat my hard drive?

Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

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MacBook Pro :: How To Reformat Hard Drive (OS X 10.7.3)

Feb 16, 2012

How do you reformat a MacBook Pro (OS X 10.7.3) 2011s Hard drive? I already backed up all the files I wanted to save. But since I have the new Macbook pro 2011 (only a few months since I got it) it didn't come with an installation disc, but instead already came with all the applications. I'm wondering how to reformat the hard drive so it wipes out everything and I can start fresh and what would happen to all the applications?

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)

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OS X V10.5 Leopard :: Reformat The Hard Drive On MacBook Pro 10.5.8

Mar 27, 2012

how do i reformat the hard drive on my macBook Pro 10.5.8 - dvd player doesn't work - otherwise what is the best way to delete stuff off the hd  I want to keep the os on it.

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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MacBook Pro :: Reformat External Hard Drive?

May 13, 2012

I have been using my Seagate external hard drive for movies on my Windows PC and now I have a MacBook. I want to add more movies from my Macbook to the hard drive but it's read only.  I want to drag these movies to the harddrive without loosing what's already on there.  Can I reformat without loosing everything?

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MacBook Pro :: ReFormat Hard Drive Partition - Erase SSD Side?

Aug 14, 2010

I have the Seagate Momentus XT and I have a quick question. If I reformat the Hard Drive portion does that erase the SSD side as well? If not how do I erase the SSD side of it.

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MacBook :: Reformat A Toshiba External Hard Drive To Work?

Feb 5, 2012

I purchased a Toshiba Canvio 3.0 external hard drive and I need to reformat it to work with my Mac.

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MacBook Pro :: How To Reformat An External Hard Drive After Time Machine

Feb 18, 2012

I have an external hard drive upon which I put movie files that I view through a Sony box (like the Roku box). I brought my MacBook in for a repair and connected the same external HD and used Time Machine to make a back up. It did reformat it in order to do so, but since the Sony box isn't a pc or mac I didn't think it would make a difference, but now the Sony box won't recognize HD. Is there a way to reformat it on my MacBook so that I can use it on the Sony box again, or do I need to reformat it with a Windows computer? I had no issues when transferring files only and using the Sony box.

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MacBook Pro :: How To Reformat Seagate Expansion External Hard Drive

Jun 24, 2014

I recently purchased a 3TB Seagate® Expansion® external hard drive for PC. My plan is too reformat it so that I can use it, but it has been acting wierd on me. It says on Disk Utility that it is 4 gbs but I have a 3TB one. Im on OSX mavericks by the way.

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Hardware :: Unable To Transfer Music From External Drive / Reformat The Internal Drive?

Jun 13, 2010

I recently bought a macbook pro and am making the transition from a pc to mac. It's all gone well so far, but I'm not sure what to do with my music. I currently have about 200 gb of music on my external hard drive (connected to my pc.) The internal hard drive on my pc does not have space to accomodate the files on my external.

I do not have the "Copy files to iTunes music folder" currently enabled because my internal doesn't have space. (And I like having the original music files in a separate location as I have over 30,000 songs). I don't know how to transfer my external and music to my macbook, since I will have to reformat the drive (which would erase everything on it, therefore I somehow have to make a backup either on my mac or on my pc. but what to do about the iTunes .xml file and iTunes folder on the internal pc drive??).

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MacBook Pro :: Reformat My External Hard Drive With OS Extended Using Desk Utility?

Apr 15, 2012

How do I reformat my external hard drive with Mac OS extended using desk utility?

Info:Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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MacBook Pro :: How To Upgrade Drive And Reinstall Lion Onto New Drive

Mar 26, 2012

I recently purchased a new macbook pro it has the 500gb 5400rpm drive I just wanted to know how to upgrade this drive with a samsung 256gb SSD and reinstall lion on to it? swapping the harddrive is no problem I just need help reinstalling the OS onto the new drive from the original drive.

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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)

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OS X :: Cannot Erase And Reformat Drive

Feb 3, 2009

I recently tried to install a back-up copy of Leopard onto a USB hard drive, as a precautionary measure if my drive ever did die. I had partitioned my drive into 3. One for the Leopard Boot (Mac OS Extended Journaled), one for Apps (Mac OS Extended Journaled) and one for files (FAT 32).

The installation pooped out on me, probably due to the amount of free space available.

Earlier this week, I decided to reformat the drive into 1 partition. Unfortunately I ran into a spot of bother....

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OS X :: Any Way To Reformat Old Drive With New Disks?

May 11, 2010

I plan on buying a new MBP this week and I am going to sell my old macbook to a friend of a friend. I seemed to have misplaced my Snow Leopard discs somewhere and was wondering if I could use the new disks with my new computer to reformat my drive? If not, are there any other options short of paying $30 to re-buy SL for this machine?

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OS X :: WD Portable Hard Drive Reformat?

Oct 1, 2009

I have a WD Passport Portable hard drive which I use as a Time Machine for my iMac.I'm close to filling it up and I will be getting a bigger hard drive for it.I would like to use my WD hard drive again on my daughters PC so she can save her school work. I know it needs to be re-formatted to work with a PC again but I dont know how to do it.

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OS X :: External Hard Drive Or Reformat Old One?

Jan 18, 2010

On my vista / xp machines, I have several external hard drives, Seagate, WD, HP, and 1 enclosure kit which contains some old internal hard drive.I don't really need all these drives on my VISTA/XP machines, as I'm trying to migrate to MAC.

I mostly use my mac for photos & creating home movies. So backing up the priceless pictures of my kids is critical.Do I really need to buy a MAC based external hard drive? or can i simply reformat one of my old drives to use on my mac. I know macs have their own file system (as pc's have fat32&ntfs).

Will apple time machine work with a generic re-formatted external hard drive.I also notice their are fewer choices for MAC ready external hard drives ...less specials than PC based externals.



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OS X Mavericks :: How To Reformat External Drive

Aug 31, 2014

I have a 1 TB Lacie external drive.  it was originally formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted).  It also might have been formatted as a bootable drive, but I am not certain.  Today I mounted the drive, entered the decrypt key and want to re-format the drive as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).  I am using Disk Utility to do this.  When I click on Erase within Disk Utility, I get this error: I am using Mac OS X Mavericks. how to fix this so that I can re-format the drive?

Info:
iMac (27-inch, Late 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

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IMac :: How To Reformat My External Hard Drive

Sep 28, 2010

I have 2 WD External Hard Drive Im trying to copy files from one to the other it wont let me because its read only..

If i Reformat the one with the files so i can copy it using my imac would i lose my files in there?

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OS X :: New External Hard Drive Reformat Methods?

Jul 16, 2008

I've never done anything but plug a HD in and get right to work. Now that I've got an Apple, I'm a total nervous Nellie.I just got a WD external hard drive that is FAT32. I understand that the Mac can read/write this format. Would you recommend that I change it to HFS+ or should I leave well enough alone?

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Windows On Mac :: Can I Use Disk Uitlity To Reformat The Drive

Feb 19, 2009

I recently bought an external hard drive enclosue and have an old hard drive from my Dell. Can I use Disk Uitlity to reformat this drive so I can use it as storage for my macbook. If not I have Windows booted on there at I will use that to reformat it.

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OS X :: Reformat Drive To Guid Partition Scheme

Aug 29, 2009

I can't install Snow Leopard because my hard drive doesn't have a Guid partition scheme. how do i reformat my drive without losing all my info.

P.s. I'm backing up my hard drive now to and external drive with carbon copy cloner.

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Hardware :: How To Reformat External Hard Drive From PC To Mac

Apr 28, 2010

I have a SimpleTech external HD that I want to reformat from PC to Mac. I went to disk utilities and selected "erase", but it will not erase the HD so that I can reformat it.

I have since attached it to my PC, but do not know how to erase/reformat on a PC (I'm a Mac user that only uses my PC for running specific programs). How can I erase this hard drive and reformat it?

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Intel Mac :: External Hard Drive Reformat?

Jun 29, 2012

I 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: 

1. Go to Disk Utility

2. Choose the External Hard Drive

3. Select Erase

4. Select MAC OS Extended (Journaled)

5. Click on Erase button 

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)...

Info:
iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

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