I had a MacBook a while back and it broke. I managed to salvage the HD and the RAM. Soon, I am going to buy another MacBook (new white plastic, nvidia series) and I was wondering if I could just remove the HD of that machine and put in the old HD from my last MacBook? Would it still work like the last one did, or would there be differences because of new hardware? Not sure about this at the moment.
View 2 RepliesI have a 13" mid 2009 MBP and due to issues with the superdrive I decided to buy the OWC data doubler kit and install it with a 120GB SSD from them. I also upgraded to 8GB RAM at the time but I do not believe that has anything to do with this. After I did this, my original HD freaked out and wouldn't even show up in target disk mode. Eventually I made a clone of the Snow Leopard install disks onto a USB stick using a friend's laptop and installed OSX fresh onto the SSD. Luckily I had a backup of everything so I have not lost anything. Even with the fresh install, however, I am having a lot of issues with the OS. When I try to boot the machine, it often takes 3, 4 or even 5 times to boot normally. As far as I remember, booting into safe mode works right away but that is obviously not a solution. Usually it starts by hanging at a blue screen once or twice, then I can get to the login screen but it is either kind of grayed out or it just freezes and I can't even move the mouse to type in my password. When I do safe mode it boots up without this issue, but even after that I often see the computer freeze up during use, which happened the first time I wrote this post. This problem also occurs when waking up from sleep. If the laptop goes to sleep by itself or I close it, I have to power cycle it to return to use. The keyboard will light up, but the screen never comes on so there is no way for me to log in. These issues are extremely frustrating and make me feel dumb for doing this in the first place, considering that everything worked ok before(minus the superdrive). Has anyone seen these issues before? Resetting PRAM and booting into single user mode are not helpful, I have tried them many, many times and I see the same issues. I saw somewhere else that I should try to remove the fonts, startup items, and loginwindow.plist files/folders and put them on the desktop, but even after doing that the issues persist.
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2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4GB 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM - 2x2GB
320GB Serial ATA Drive @ 5400 rpm
SuperDrive 8x (DVD-R DL/DVD-RW/CD-RW)
I recently discovered after installing the new Snow Leopard OS that I did not have a bluetooth option under my system preferences. I own a mid 2008 Macbook Pro (pre-unibody, more info below) and I know that I've used it before. I recently took my computer in to be repaired by Apple because the keyboard and trackpad were inconsistently responsive, and to fix it they simply replaced the entire top panel (with the keyboard and trackpad). I have also checked under the system profiler and it says that there is no information available for my bluetooth...what exactly does this mean? Did they forget to reinstall it? or what?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.5)
Just wondering to myself, as Mac OS X reaches middle age.....what will replace it ( as OS X replaced System 9 ).
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI was wondering if anyone is uncomfortable with the future of doing all OS X updates in the App Store? I've always downloaded the combo updaters from Apple's website and installed from my hard drive. When I installed Lion I downloaded it from the App Store and then burned it onto a bootable DVD and installed Lion after booting off the DVD. And even before that I check the hard drive with disc utility and repair permissions before and after installation. Also shut down my mac and unplug all peripherals and then start back up. I've never seen apple suggest these things. So I wonder is Apple just a little too confident in OS X? Is OS X even more reliable than ever? Or am I just superstitious with the Mac voodoo?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI am trying to install a full Lion system on a USB key. I am not talking about a Cracker Jack installer and disk utility thing. I am talking about a full useable system. Why would I want to do this? Let's see, I have a 3 month old MacBook Air with a failing SSD, a brand new Mac Pro with NO THUNDERBOLT jack, an over-designed FireWire to Thunderbolt dongle that Apple took 2 YEARS to develop and still has yet to bring to market (which may or may not support Target Disk Mode on FireWire Macs... like my brand new tower) and NO way to run Carbon Copy Cloner on a booted system that can see the failing SSD as a local disk. I'm sure I don't need to mention the kick in the pants that is Spotlight trying to index a failing drive, corrupting data as it does so. Sorry but I don't have access to a THIRD mac with Thunderbolt. Just these two very new machines. If there is no way to get the MacBook Air mounted in Target Disk Mode on another mac, I need to boot it from a System that is not corrupting files like crazy due to media failure. I can't use the brilliant new "Recovery Partition" thing they created because, well, that's also on the failing disk.
When I run the 10.7 installer on the MacBook it says this is an unsupported system. Years ago it was possible to install OSX to a disk other than the boot disk without rebooting the machine. Not any more. When I clone Mac OS Install ESD to a thumb drive and try to boot from it, I get the big X. When I try to make the USB key on the tower, after needlessly rebooting it, of course, using ANOTHER USB key with the ESD image, my target USB key (which is 64gb) is greyed out, and hence not selectable as a target volume for the installation.
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MBP 15.4/2.66/CTO, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
Installing latest version of iTunes (11.4) today led to the following error message: System extension cannot be usedThe system extension “//System/ Library/ Extensions/AppleUSBEthernetHost.kext” was installed improperly and cannot be used. Please try reinstalling it, or contact the product's vendor for an update.
I'm able to use my USB drive for Time Machine, and that appears to be functioning ok. And what does it mean for the continued safe operation of my MacBook?(Other than the distraction of getting a worrying error message that I take time out to report?)
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I have G4 Powerbook Titanium. Is it possible to buy anything to run a windows operating system on it?
View 16 Replies View RelatedWhen I try to install iTunes 9 I get the following message: "System extension cannot be used. The system extention "/system/library/extensions/CDSDAudioCaptureSupport.kext" was installed improperly and cannot be used. Please try reinstalling it, or contact the product's vendor for an update". ITunes installs anyway - even if I leave the message there without clicking "OK". I have verified my disk and repaired the permissions - yet still pops up.
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy mom re-invented herself and decided to use my laptop..thats fine with my but she got this ability to mess up with stuff so i created an account on my MB so she can log in under her name but my account is in english and hers not..how do i install two firefoxes in 2 different languages? When I install FF when logged in as she it will change the localization of my FF.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI did this twice, instaled win 7 using booth camp. The problem started when I boot os X. Every launch new aplication I saw 30 minutes of that creapy rainbow, just all os X freeze for this time, I could just wait. restarting os X doesn't . so I must restored partition of Win7.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have a problem to install vpnclient-darwin-4.9.01.0030-universal-k9.dmg file in my Mac OS X 10.4.11, I try to download it from different site but it gives me same error message.
View 1 Replies View Relatedsince installing 10.7.3 my Mac does not restore WiFi after it goes to sleep
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I'm a former windows user and I'm still learning about OS X. I hate installing programs that leave behind all kinds of files though, especially when they slow your system down like in windows. I'm wondering, when you download, install, and then uninstall widgets, do files get left behind afterwards?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just tried installing ubuntu via bootcamp. I went through the whole installation process then it asked me to restart. Black Screen for 5min. Manually restarted and my system would only start to another black screen that said GRUB, with no other options. I took the hdd out that I installed ubuntu on and I would get the same problem. Did this somehow change my bios/mac equivalent. Finally was able to get into osx by holding down left mouse button on startup (nothing else would work).
View 3 Replies View RelatedWhat is the minimal configuration (operating system and memory) for installing iTunes 10.x on a G4 eMac?It already runs on Tiger 10.4.11 with 718MB of RAM.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have a macbook intel(black) it originally came with tiger, i installed leopard on it a while ago. How ever i dont like leopard i want tiger back. I lost the original grey cds that came with my macbook so i hooked it up to my imac with target disk mode. I erased the disk using disk utility. Then i installed tiger with an original copy of tiger bought in a mac store. My imac rebooted i follow the installation menu and it installed. the internal drive of my macbook booted on my imac asif it were an external drive.
I rebooted into the internal drive of the imac and ejected the macbook drive. I disconnected the firewire cable and rebooted my macbook. The problem is that it wont boot properly it just goes to the white screen make the startup sound and starts flashing a folder with a questionmark in it. ive tried resetting the pram etc but it doesnt seem to work. i tried holding alt at boot up all i get is the cursor and nothing happens. i can still connect it to my imac but that it. how can i get my macbook to reboot properly again?"
I recently received a new Hard Drive to put into my iMac. The old hard drive failed and I am wondering ways you install an operating system. And also, can I just buy an upgrade disc not an entire operating system disc?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just finished up a fresh install of Windows 7 and downloaded and installed the NVidia driver from their site directly since the one in the Boot Camp files is pretty old and technically the Vista driver anyway.
But I still need the Brightness, Sound, etc key functionality. Is there a way to selectively install Boot Camp drivers? That's the only one I need. The wireless, chipset, video and everything else works just fine (and in some cases better) than the ones included in Apple's setup.
I was asked to performed a system update with a reboot which I proceeded to do. Once the reboot was complete I had lost my system time (which had been reset to December 31, 2000 and my background had been replaced with the original generic MAC background. I have been unable to find the source of this issue and I am unsure how to fix this. I was able to change my clock by adjusting the Date & Time Preferences and fix my background image as well, but I am concerned that this is a temporary fix. Has anyone else experienced this with a system update?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI've been reading this site for a while now, first time I'm posting. I recently purchased 8 GB of RAM for my 2010 13" MBP. There are two 4 GB DDR3 PC3-10500 1333mhz sticks. When I install them in the laptop my computer does not get past the apple logo boot screen (the spinning disc freezes). However, I can boot into Windows (boot camp) without issues.
Also, when I pair either of the 4 GB sticks with one of my old 2 GB stock sticks the laptop boots up fine in OS X. The system profiler registers it as 6 GB of 1067 mhz RAM (the stock sticks are 1067 mhz)
Ive got a 13" MBP and a 120GB Vertex 2E with the optibay option where im going to put the factory HDD in the optibay.
First of all im not worried about retaining any information on the drives so it 'should' be a straightforward task.
Once all the components are in place do i just pop in the the OSX cd that came with my mac into an external optical drive and reinstall the OS?
My mac says I can upgrade my OS to 10.5.7 with a size of 737MB to install along with itunes and a Quicktime update. The update (and programs) download fine, the problem comes in with the install. When I shut down my computer and begin the install process, the status bar moves only a little bit, then stays put. I left my computer on my desk for about 30 minutes and it is still at the same spot.
View 4 Replies View RelatedSo a while ago i got a copy of windows and installed it completely over my macbook pro, making it the only operating system.I was wondering how to switch back.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
With Leopard, everything is GPUID but after I partition, I can't install the OS (Snow) I get a yellow.
View 2 Replies View RelatedI installed a new SSD from Crucial and I want to recover from my Time Capsule. How do you boot from the CD? I've done the press Option key and there I can choose the OSX install cd but then after I press it the screen changes to the apple logo and sits there. Do I need to wait for a long time or something? Did I press the wrong keys?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm installing my new SSD tonight and then using my old hd as an external drive for backup. It's brand new so the only thing on it is a couple days of web history After I install the SSD do I just use the restore disks to reload the OS?
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