After reformating de disc do i have to insert the disc with the os that came with the mac originaly or i can start it directly from the back up made?
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)
I have an external hard drive that I use to watch movies on a Nintendo Wii and some of the movie files are over 7GB, which means when I format the drive to FAT32 I cannot copy the larger files. What are my options for getting around this problem? I have VMware fusion but I cannot easily see my external drive in XP. Is it possible to format the drive in XP and then transfer everything via VMware on XP?
I'm trying to restore my Macbook (white) to factory defaults and I can't get the disk to boot and am having trouble. Whenever I load the disk in and restart holding c, the disk spins and then spits out and the computer boots to Mac OS X (Leopard). I've reset the nvram, the pram, repaired permissions with no success. I used to have Bootcamp installed, but I read that may cause problems so I uninstalled it and it still won't work. These are the grey disks that came with the computer when I bought it new a few months ago so I know they work. They say Mac OS X Disc 1/Disc 1. Any suggestions to getting the disk to boot instead of spit out?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedLast week I decided to delete everything on my disc and install Lion on clear disc. But before that I created an Time Machine disc and copied everything to it. I did the installation proces. Everything's worked fine until I turned my MBP off and on again. It has asked me for a password (to log in). It was (and still is) very strange because on this computer I had only one password and it's incorrect! I can't log in, I can't change settings! Every time if I want to use my computer I have to use Snow Leopard's installation disc and reset password. But it's even stranger. After I do this (every time!) the password is still incorrect (if I for example want to change settings or reboot my MacBook).
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
Last week I decided to delete everything on my disc and install Lion on clear disc. But before that I created an Time Machine disc and copied everything to it. I did the installation process. Everything's worked fine until I turned my MBP off and on again. It has asked me for a password (to log in). It was (and still is) very strange because on this computer I had only one password and it's incorrect! I can't log in, I can't change settings! Every time if I want to use my computer I have to use Snow Leopard's installation disc and reset password. But it's even stranger. After I do this (every time!) the password is still incorrect (if I for example want to change settings or reboot my MacBook).
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
So I had to have my macbook pro HDD replaced (applecare) and I made a disc image backup beforehand and put it on my external HDD.
I just picked it up from the apple store today, and called tech support for help with restoring it from the disc image. I was instructed to put the install disc in and boot holding the 'c' key, then go to disc utilities, to the restore tab, find the image as a source, and then drag the internal HDD volume to the destination field. It didnt work, so I was transferred to a senior advisor, who told me to do the same thing. The only time it would work is if I dragged the indented one that reads "Macintosh HD" instead of the one with the GB size and brand name. The senior advisor told me that it wouldnt work for him either (dragging the volume) and dragging the macintosh HD isnt how it's supposed to work, so he couldnt guarantee a proper result. It didnt work anyway. I dont remember the error message.
So he starts telling me that the best option might be to install the operating system from the discs, update to 10.5.8, and then just copy the "user" folder and then move everything where it is supposed to be. I wasnt particularly impressed and I'm not convinced that it has to be that difficult or time consuming.
I'll finally be selling my circa-2005 iMac to my sister and buying one of the new ones. But I was wondering if anybody could point me to a really simple tutorial on how to restore/clean install my computer. I know how to get all my stuff off of my iMac and onto the new one. But I cannot locate the Tiger disc and only have the iMac install discs. Can I do a clean install with just these discs?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I accidentally deleted automator, is there anyway to get it back? without formatting?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
How can i format my pc from windows to the original mac os again because i tried quite a lot of times when i format my pc the overview is in window 7 not iMac os x.
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iMac
I was wondering how would I do a system restore on my Leopard upgraded (from a Tiger OS) iMac? I have done several google searches and i keep getting various answers (which there are different ways but I just want to restore my iMac to factory setting) Would I use my leopard or tiger disk, and how would I go about doing a system restore? What I wanted to do was do a system restore on my mac and upgrade to Snow Leopard. There are alot of scattered unimportant photos, movies, and games on my mac and it feels like a system restore would save me alot of time.
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Any way to do it automatically?
Well my external crashed so I am trying to restore my library back from my iPod but I don't want to start with new metadata. Is there a program out there that automatically places the music file in the exact place iTunes is looking for? Also is a straight copy and past from the iPod itself the best way to recover my music, or should I use a program? The reason I ask is I don't want to lose anything like artwork, tags or lyrics.
View 6 Replies View RelatedSo I got my mac fixed and I picked it up from apple store, when I was restoring I messed with the external as I was restoring and stopped it in the middle. So I don't have a snow leopard disk or any disk with me. If I borrowed a leopard disk could I restore? I want to restore completely from the day my computer crashed.
View 4 Replies View RelatedMy hard drive crashed. Luckily I have a recent Back up made on an external USB drive made under 10.4. The new hard drive has had 10.5 installed on it. However, I need to restore from the 10.4 back up. Migration assistant doesn't see the back up disk.
View 1 Replies View Relatedi'm planning to format my mac book pro, as in, reinstalling leopard and erasing all the files and applications since my mac is getting really slow. I was wondering if the applications ( adobe photoshop, illustrator, final cut etc.) that i backed-up in my time machine will still work on a formatted mac.
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MacBook Pro, iOS 5.1.1
I have had an external hard drive on my computer for back ups. I went to get something off it and I could not find it. I rebooted and I still can't find it. I've tried to unplug and plug back in, but still no disc. I am not sure what to do. It is on, I can see the light on.
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View 6 Replies View RelatedI'm trying to make back ups of my originally purchased system discs so that I can use those to do any restores of my system any keep the originals in a safe place. I'm not quite sure what i need to do to successfully do this. Can someone please help me out. I Have 2 different macs that I can use to burn dvd's on but not sure if the drive can do this since I think that I might have to burn dbl layer discs. My iMac says it is a MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-85J and specs DVD-Write:-R, -R DL, -RW, +R, +R DL, +RW. Any info would be great.
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Anyway I could get it back from APPLE?
So I took an account photo when i recently installed leopard at the start up...when it's creating the account and all of that stuff...
I was messing around with Photo Booth, and clicked the account photo button, and it replaced the old one that i like with a new one...
How can i get my old one back? where was it located? I have made time machine backups, so maybe if i knew where the old photo is stored at, i could retrive it?
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MacBook
Mac OS X (10.5.7)
Why is there such a memory loss on hard drives? By this I mean, if you have a 160 gig HHD - you are only presented with 149 gig.
Or my 250 gig only shows 232 gig - so where has the 18 gig disappeared to?
I'm trying to install Snow Leopard with my "Mac OS X install DVD" to my friends's Mac, I have a MBP and he has a MB, will it work?
View 2 Replies View RelatedOk, this is the setup: got an external hard drive hooked up to an airport extreme via USB. I have a macbook that's a few years old with the intel core duo processor and running OS 10.4.11.
I want to be able to see/backup to this hard drive wirelessly from my macbook while on my home network. Basically, everything I've found online makes it look like I have to have my extreme on an 802.11n connection or whatever, which my macbook isn't capable of (intel core duo processor), right? The reason I say this is that all the instructions on how to turn this on circle around options that I don't see in my airport admin utility program.
So is this possible, or am I gonna have to get a new macbook before I can do this. If I get leopard or snow leopard would I be able to do this with time machine, or do I need to be able to do 802.11n for that, too?
I just bought and installed snow leopard and when i did i restored to factory settings so i could start fresh. However i wanted to restore my itunes back to how it was, but i can seem to work it out. If someone could tell me an easy way to do
View 1 Replies View Relatedlooking for a solid DVD cloner or copy program so that I can back up (replicate) DVDs I own onto disc. I also want a program that would allow me to copy certain segments and chapter to create new disks.semi-dummy level would be great as I'm not a real techy or media person.I've tried trials of both DVD copy (mp4converter software studio) ---unfortunately the trial doesn't give you full functionality (gotta question the logic here) and Fast DVD copy 4.1
View 9 Replies View RelatedIn trying to repair my hard drive, which disc utility said was corrupt, it stopped repairing it because it could not unmount the disc?I booted my macbook pro from my backup hard drive.
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macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Is there a release or something to push the eject does not work
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