I want to erase and re-install OSX but I have a partition of Windows 7, will the installation delete the partition of Windows as well?
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
How do I erase and reinstall my Macbook to it's original settings?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
How do I erase all data and reinstall Maverick?
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
How do I erase and reinstall macbook pro 10.7.4? Turn on and hold option key is only showing a locked symbol and password I don't remember
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I'm now trying to reinstall Mac OS X Lion, but the system requires about 0.5 GB of additional free disk space to install!Â
Is there anyway I can access the OS terminal screen (command line interface), so I may delete a few files, creating additional disk space?Â
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3), OS reinstall
I have a 2007 Blackbook with Snow Leopard installed. I tried to install Bootcamp but it said that I had to do an erase + reinstall first. I booted my mac up from the OS X disc, got past the language menu, then got a pop up stating "MAC OS X Cannot Be Installed." I can't click on Disk Utility or anything else on the menu bar. How else can I erase my HD?
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MacBook Air (11-inch Late 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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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
About a year ago I deleted Photo Booth. I somehow found a link to get it back, and it worked perfectly, but when I quit Photo Booth, I lost it. I could never find the link since. I have been looking for something desperately, but I have only found answers that have said "use your install CD". I got my Mac pre-used so I did not get it with any CD.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have a MacBook Pro running OSx 10.9.4 and have been successfully using Time Machine with a WD My Passport External Hard Drive for a while. Now (after 10 days with a successful back-up), the computer will not back-up. I have gone into disk utility and tried to erase, partition, and/or repair the disk, but repeatedly get error messages - it can't erase the disk, re-partition the disk or unmount the disk.Â
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2010), OS X Mavericks (10.9.4), External Hard Drive
I have this iMac, and now I mostly use my macbook pro. So what I want to do to this one is delete everything (of course I will back up what I need) and then reinstall Lion, so first it can be faster. And second imac run bootcamp on it so I can play some PC Games.
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Accidently today I deleted Iphotos on my macbook by accident and can't find a way to reinstall it. I also lost my apple care cd when I purchased my macbook. IS there anyway thats for free?
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The item "7702D020" can't be moved to the Trash because it can't be deleted. Â Â
I tried unlocking it. It does nothing when I try to find the info. It says that it is an Excel file and I can not open it either. I am afraid that it is a "nasty" type file. Malware or something along those lines. Â
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.1)
i know that diskutil has alot of commands and im not sure how to use them, i would specifically want to know how to use eraseDisk properly. Or is there any other way to clean install tiger without using darwin? I know eraseDisk gives me a format to use but i never get it right for some reason. diskutil eraseDisk "Journaled HFS+" MacintoshHD bootable /dev/disk0 -- this works i got it right now but it gives me this error: could not unmount disk for zeroing
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Some files I can access if I go to the actual backup folder - ex a Pages doc BUT ff I try to open the iPhoto library from the back-up folders stored on the external drive, I get the following error message -
I cannot open the iPhoto "package" to access individual photos from these back-ups.Â
So - how can I get Time Machine to allow access to the pre-install back-ups??Â
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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I accidentally deleted my husband's mac osx partition when I was installing windows 7 via bootcamp on his macbook pro. When I was installing windows it showed all these partitions (disk 0 partition, disk 1 BOOTCAMP, etc.) so I deleted all of them, thinking I would save space. When I restarted the macbook pressed "option," only the windows drive appeared. I had no idea I could delete the primary OS when I was in windows. I now have fully functioning windows 7 but no osx.
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Power Mac G5, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I am thinkng about upgrading to Lion/mountan lion, but was wondering if it will delete my bootcamp windows partition. I have to use windows for some work that I do, and would rather not have to spend the few hours to repartition and upgrade my copy of XP.
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View 24 Replies View RelatedMy Computer: 2.8 GHz intel Core 2 Duo Mac, running OS X Ver. 10.5.8. I've partitioned my hard drive before, but in order to get more space on my Windows partition I have made a disk image using a program called Winclone. I also backed up important files to my external hard drive, and then used disk utility to erase and make a new partition so I could restore the Winclone disk image I made and have everything back. What I'm concerned about is I've been waiting for this new partition (65 GB) to finish being made and its taking a while. I read that if you stop the process it could damage the OS X side and you could lose all your files.
I started to run time machine about 10 minutes ago and set the destination to my external drive for backup (Its a huge drive, it can hold 650+ GB so I'm not worried about running out of space.) Do I stop Disk Utility and risk it? Do I let it run? Do I kiss my computer goodbye and pray that Time Machine backed everything up right onto my external hard drive? I don't know if Time Machine is working correctly because I started it after I began to partition my hard drive. What to do. Should I let Time Machine back everything up, the disconnect my external and end Disk Utility?
I have XP installed in my Intel Macbook Pro in the separate partition created by boot camp. Recently while I was running on XP the computer crashed badly and XP system seemed to have been damaged and I can't boot as XP anymore. I would like to simply erase the XP partition and merge it with the main drive. But the problem is that Boot Camp got expired and I can't use the application to do that. Can anyone tell me how I can do that?? I am guessing that Disk Utility would be the one to use but I want to make sure I know what I am doing before I screw up anything.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
When I bought my Macbook about a year and a half ago, a computer savvy friend set it up. So far as I can tell, he split my hard drive in half with one side intended to be a backup. Now I'm receiving constant notifications that my startup disc is nearly full. How do I undo whatever he did and make my startup disc as large as it can be? I've found some answers via Google, but I'm hoping there's another way (in large part because I have no idea how to backup everything and reinstall): [URL]. Why, oh why, did he do this to my computer. It looks as though the backup portion has 41.95 GB available, whereas my regular drive has only 236.4 MB available.
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