I´m using a macbook with a Intel processor. It´s the latest 10.6.8 and that would be with Snow leopard?? Anyway, i´ve missplaced my install cd´s and have downloaded FirmwareRestorationCD1.7 from apple´s site. Is this the one for me? And will i be able to install the common applications/programs like iDvd, Itunes, iPhoto etc etc ?Â
View 3 RepliesI would like to make a fresh and clean install of Snow Leopard. I have a MacBook Pro Late 2008 and it came with 10.6. I did upgrade to 10.6 last year when it came out but now I would like to wipe everything off it, format it and reinstall 10.6 so it looks brand new. How do I do that? Do I need to install 10.5 first and then 10.6 or can I directly install 10.6? And what application do I need to load?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am planing on selling my MBP. I needed to erase everything and reinstall OS X. I reformatted the drive, everything went ok. It started to install 10.5 but part way through the install, it froze at a time. I let it sit for about an hour. No change. Trying to click any of the menu icons at the top resulted in beach balling. I then, after reading advice, hard shut off the machine and rebooted to retry the install. Now, I just get a folder with a question mark and, when pressing "c" to have it boot from disk, it reads it, then ejects it. I need help to fix the problem. This is on a Macbook Pro Late 2007 edition.
View 5 Replies View Relatedmy MBP (early 2008) seems to have a corrupted SMC.Operations that i think are managed by the SMC like booting and sleeping are having big issues:Â First, to boot OSX needs about 10 minutes.After presing the power-buton the chime sounds and the apple logo appears. OSX starts loading.
Then it suddenly stops and a blue screen appears. This blue screen stays there for several minutes. Then i can hear a little sound from the hard disc  and the desktop appears as always and i can use OSX without any problems. Second, to get the MBP to sleep isnt working at all. Closing the MBP leads to a black screen, while the fans etc are still working. There is no way to wake it up again, so i have to do a force shut down. Â
I already formated the hard disc and reinstalled OSX 10.6 twice, but the problem still occurs.And I already tried to reset the SMC (pressing 5sec power button etc) and tried to clean the PRAM. I have no clue if the resets were actually done. I didnt have to enter passwords etc again like i was expecting to do after a PRAM-Reset. Is there a way to reinstall the SMC? I tried to but i got the message "Firmware is already up to date. No update necessary."Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I have a macbook air. I need to reinstall osx leopard. I downloaded an image of leopard. However, I cant get it mounted on my 8gb USB stick. I only have a windows computer. I tried Transmac but it did not work> It asks me to decompres the DMG file.
I would like to reinstall my MBA, I have not the superdrive, how can I proceed, I would like the next owner of my laptop to have my computer like New In Box.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI haven't been able to reinstall OS-X on it at all. It takes 45 minutes from the time I say install to the time it gets only 1/10 of the bar across of the installing part and then fails.
I am able to format the HD, and partition it. This HD came out of another laptop of mine that I sold and was working fine. When I first tried this and did a time keeper restore, the laptop kept freezing and it took 5 hours for it to restore. Now I can't get OS-X installed. So I am a bit confused what is going on here.
Anyone have any ideas?
My Air was such a nice laptop, but after installing 10.5.8 it has become a nightmare. I want to reinstall the os, but it wont do it.I have installed remote disk, and trying to remotely reinstall it. I do what it says: Turn off my MBA and hold option in while i turn it back on. However, when I turn it back on, no airport shows. I click the (...) and write the name of my airport and i write the pw, but it wont connect. It has been trying to connect for about 15minutes now, but nothing happens..I dont need any other CDs then what came with the air, right? Im using "Mac OS X install disk 1" now.
View 4 Replies View RelatedI have had my first MacBook now for about a year. Its beginning to slow down quite a bit, which is expected I guess. I have been looking around for ways to speed things up, but I do not know what they mean, how they work, how to do it. I have a MacBook Pro 13in, 2.53 C2D, 4 GB ram, 500 GB hard drive, running 10.6.4. I also have a bootcamp of Win7 64 bit Ultimate but I am not having any problems with that.
Apparently there is a way to reinstall the OSX that preserves everything, but a clean install of the operating system. I bought this before Snow Leopard, so do I insert the Snow Leopard disc to do it? I tried restarting and booting from the disc but I must have missed something because it just booted normal.
I have MacBook computer I need to install fresh OS x Lion, my Mac boots in mac os x utilities. How I can reinstall OS x Lion? I don't have DVD.Â
View 1 Replies View RelatedI want to reinstall my MacBook Air with the 10.6 'Reinstall Drive' that came with the MBA -- the small USB key.
When I insert the device it pops up a window and I click the install icon; it tells me it will not reboot, which it does. The Apple log appears and the nothing happens (I have left it for 15 minutes). In the manual it tells me I can also insert the device, start eh MBA and hold down the C key. Same thing, apple logo then nothing else
Info:MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
my mac os is currupt . how to take backup of mac and reinstall
Info:Mackbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6)
I need Rosetta, which limits me to 10.6.8. There are system glitches: Open Recent in many apps is confused. System-window sidebar has a mind of its own. Seem like I need to re-install 10.6.8. Is there a combined upgrade that collects everything since 10.6.0? Or do I have to climb the stairs, one update at a time>
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Time Capsule 802.11n (4th Gen), Mac OS X (10.6.8)
How do i do clean install on Macbook pro 2011
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iOS 5
how to reinstall iChat?Â
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MacBook
I am not sure where automator went and never needed it before today. When I went to look for it it is gone. I could not find it on my snow leopard disc or macbook discs. I looked all over the web and it seemed like I was the only person who ever went looking to reinstall it. I am on 10.6.8 and just about ready to upgrade now that all my programs are supported on it. But I need automator.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
Trying to reinstall OS after the machine wouldn't work when I tried OS upgrade. I formatted Macintish HD. It looks like it downloads successfully but never restarts afterwards. No matter what I try it just boots into OS X Utilities. When I go into DIsk Utility it lists 160.04 GB Toshiba, then under that Macintosh HD. Then further down it lists disk1 and under that it lists OS X Base System.
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI use to Tweetdeck on my Macbook Pro, but recently I can't reinstall Adobe Air. I have uninstall and reinstall many times. I am running 10.6.4.
View 8 Replies View Relatedim ordering my MBP 17" i7 online and im at the hard drive step that being said, if i get a normal hdd and when i get it and put a new SSD inside do i have to re-install the os? and does the disk come with it?
basically if i put the sdd in is it plug-n-play or do i need to re-install everything and buy a fresh mac osx disc?
Is this posible? Could I use it as a normal USB drive?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI received a new MBP for Christmas. It's a great machine, and I am really liking Mac so far.
I did a reinstall on the OS after about a day of use. I thought it would be a good way to become familiar with the system, as I had been watching all the apple.com tutorial videos trying to become an expert.
Everything seems fine after the reinstall. I deleted the partition, installed the OS/apps, let the updates run, and then renamed the hard drive back to Macintosh HD.
I noticed two things since reinstalling.
#1) Videos seem to load slower (apple tutorials)
#2) They no longer auto-play like they originally did before the reinstall.
Also...
I watched an entire HD stream of South Park with no stuttering prior to the reinstall. Now, I can't even get through 30secs of low quality without buffering.
I checked on my PC, and none of these issues are happening so it's not an internet thing.
How can I fix/change this?
i just bought a MBA 11' and is a first time i own mac product. so i am completely newbie in MAC.
i saw a sticky up there to complete install fresh Mac OsX in the MBA to free space. i would like to do it but i dun have the DVD. i know the MBA come with the installation thumb drive, can i follow the instruction in the post and use the thumbdrive to install fresh copy?
while enjoying a beautiful, sunny day here I was outside with my MBA surfing the web. I had a few other apps open at the same time like iTunes, QuickTime and Mail. Safari all of a sudden beach balls and I wait a bit until I try doing a force quit on it. After a while I still have no response and I cannot close it. So, I hold my breath while forcing a shutdown with the power button. To make a long story short, I ended up with the flashing question mark on the gray screen. Now I'm doing a remote reinstall from my MBP!
View 24 Replies View RelatedI've a beloved Powerbook G4 from 2005, one of the last, and am running Leopard upgraded from Tiger. It's cpu etc from the hardware info page:
-Model Name:PowerBook G4 15"
Processor Name:PowerPC G4 (1.2)
Processor Speed:1.5 GHz
Number Of CPUs:1
L2 Cache (per CPU):512 KB
Memory:1 GB
Bus Speed:167 MHz
-SODIMM0/J25LOWER: (x2)
Size:512 MB
Type:DDR SDRAM
Speed:PC2700U-25330
Status:OK
-Macintosh HD:
Capacity:74.41 GB
Available:15.54 GB
Writable:Yes
File System:Journaled HFS+
BSD Name:disk0s3It's long in the tooth now I know, but I've never had it crash and am loathe to upgrade simply for the sake of it, but recently it's had growing problems that I'd love to hear some advice on. It's been running hotter and hotter every year, and whilst I live in the outback it never used to singe my lap the way it does now. I installed Leopard a few months ago and realise that a new OS can have it working harder, but even since then it's been getting worse and worse with greatly shortened battery life too. During the day I've taken to plonking it upon one of those squishy icepacks with a teatowel around it to keep it cool....................
I want to wipe a MacBook Air completely and install from scratch using the original restore disks.
Trouble is... yes, there is no optical drive. Can I just attach a USB DVD drive (from a PC, not a Mac), hold down C when booting, and proceed as with (say) a normal MacBook?
My apple remote wouldnt work with my MBP, while it would for my girlfriend's MBP. I copies her ktext over to mine on my MBP, and something failed. I no longer have the "disable IR receiver" option in sys prefs, yet my IR Receiver shows up in system profiler.
Is there anyway to reinstall the software for my IR receiver?
My MPB is having issues (it doesn't actually go to sleep, so when i come to use it, the battery is totally drained) and i want to backup everything before I take it into AppleCare, but I'm worried about some of my programs...
for example: I have Senuti on my computer (0.50.01). When I downloaded it, it was a free program. Now, the version that is out cost around $18 (i think). The old version I am using works fine for me, and I downloaded it free and legally--I don't want the new version.
I misplaced my recovery disk so im using my leopard cd when I put in osx it prompts to restart the computer. Once I do that it keeps rebooting over and over it has a grey screen but here the mac reboot sound. Once I take out the leopard cd then it reboots up normally.
View 10 Replies View RelatediTunes is failing to open on my MBA I have tried to unistall it and reinstall but the download won't work
Info:MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
