I am trying to reinstall Leopard on my MacBook Pro 15" 2ghz 667mhz but I don't have the discs for this model and I am using discs from a early 2008 MacBook pro 17" 2.6ghz 800mhz but it they don't work. I loaded the discs with the C button pressed and a pop up window says that they will not work on this hardware.
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Is there a release or something to push the eject does not work
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View 1 Replies View RelatedI have the latest MacBook Pro. I lost the CD that came with it. I'm attempting to reinstall Snow Leopard using a retail disc purchased from Apple. I've tried booting it by holding "C" and by holding "OPTION" and selecting the disc. I've also tried reseting the PRAM. It goes the the Apple screen and I can hear the disk spinning. Then it just hangs there.
Could this have anything to do with the fact that the computer came with 10.6.3 and I'm attempting to install 10.6 from the retail disc?
Ok, here's the deal. I just bought a 2.4 15'' MacBook Pro Unibody. I tried to wipe the drive and do a clean install from the system software installation disc that came with the computer. Three tries, failed each time. "Faulty disc" is what it said.
Well, I had to get a project done, so I borrowed same system software installation disc from a friend who bought the exact same computer on the same day. The disc worked fine! Leopard up and runnin'!
But I still called Apple to get a replacement disc. They said they did not recommend using another computer's disc to install. Well I'm thinking "dude, it's the same exact computer! So it must be the same disc?"
Anyone have experience with this? Should I wipe and reinstall AGAIN (NOOO!) after I get my disc. After a few days, it's been working just fine as is.
So I had an aluminum 2008 unibody macbook. I replaced the hard drive with a 320gb and it has leopard on it. I damaged it and had to get a new mac. I now have a white unibody mac. To copy every thing would be a pain. I'd rather use snow leopard. What I want to know is if I can use the reinstallation disc 10.6 that came with the white macbook to upgrade my 320gb leopard hdd to snow leopard?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI've got a blackbook which I've replaced the super drive with an hard drive (giving me two hard drives in total).
The primary hard drive is blank and I want to install Snow Leopard. My first thought was to use Remote Disc from my Windows 7 machine, but I'm not sure if this will work? I presume I need to connect to my windows 7 via ethernet cable, turn on the blackbook and hold control which gives me access to the remote disc?
Will this work or am I better copying OS X onto a bootable usb stick?
I had some problems regarding my Hard Disk in a previous topic, I managed to fix the errors and format the drive. The disc seems ok but there is no OS on it.
And when I boot (in verbose or single user mode) it keeps freezing on:
Code:
"Loading SystemLibraryCachescom.apple.kext.cachesStartupExtensions.mkext........................"
Now this makes sense to me since the drive is empty but when I enter my Installation disc press ALT or C while booting it just freezes and does nothing.
I see the CD next to my hard drive and nothing happens, anybody had this problem before? What should I do, it's just a 5 months old iMac from the latest generation :/.
I got a problem booting from my DVD installation disc. I got a PowerBook G4 (1GB/133mhz) on which I currently run OS X 10.4. However, my mac has started to lag so I want to erase the hard disc and reinstall from scratch, starting with OS X 10.3. Now the problem is this: When I insert the installation disc, it first seems like it reads from the discs (saying: "preparing installation") but then this little device on the screen starts spinning. And this is as far as I ever get. The device doesn't stop spinning.
View 3 Replies View RelatedI tried to archive and install 10.4 Retail copy on my 17" iMac G5 which has 10.3.9. The installer checked the disc and said it had scratches or fingerprints so to restart. I did, cleaned the disc and tried again. I got the same message but chose to ignore it and proceed and the disc got 36% of the way and said it is damaged and to restart. But it's gone far enough that I have not got 10.3 any more and the ONLY way I can restart the computer is with this defective disc! Or a network but my other Mac, connected with ethernet that worked well, now doesn't see the iMAc any more. I also have an external CD drive , doesn't read DVDs.
Right now I am stuck in the Startup Disk with a choice of endlessly restarting or shutting down. I shut down and it restarted from the disc OK.I checked the system profiler and under applications it shows only Disk utility,Installer,Network Ut, Open Firmware Password, Reset Password,Startup Disk, System Profiler. Under USB, it didn't recognize my external CD drive. Under Disk Utility I tried to repair permissions but it says it has no valid packages.
The person I bought the computer from sent me the Tiger copy discs and included 2 copies of Disc 1. I checked the second but it needs minor repair that couldn't be done with Disk Utility on my other Mac. But if I can somehow eject the disc that is in the 17" iMac (don't know how) will I ever be able to restart?
The power mac g5 starts up with the question mark folder thing. When I put in the installion disc in and hold down c, It has the apple logo and it gets stuck there forever.
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My friend wants to install bootcamp on his 13" Macbook Pro but he doesn't have the discs that came with it. I was wondering if I could let him borrow my discs for my 15" Macbook Pro, or would that be a compatibility problem?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI have just installed a windows vista partition on my 17 inch macbook pro and when I insert the mac osx installation dvd in order to install the mac drivers the on the windows partition the d drive shows that something has been inserted but the cd has no name and whenever I try to click on it says nothing is on the cd. However when I insert the dvd in the mac osx partition it reads the dvd fine. Why is this? There is a scratch on the dvd but what difference would it make if the mac partition is reading it fine?
View 4 Replies View Relatedi am a Mac user for years and I have some experience with troubleshooting and fixing/reinstalling Mac systems unfortunately I feel rather hopeless at the moment since I wasted hours and hours on trying to fix my 4months old iMac (the 27" edition).
Ok so first of all, the problems appeared after some Apple updates, (it was a few months since my last update), I installed the updates and restarted my system and suddenly finder was broken, it just freezes all the time and I can't seem to open it and browse through my files and when I force quit it just crashes again.
The only thing I can is use spotlight to browse for something (note that applications like iTunes and Photoshop work perfectly).
Feeling desperate in this situation I tried to reinstall my Mac, so I inserted my Mac Install discs and pressed the ALT key while booting. The disc appeared but when I press enter my iMac just freezes and doesn't do anything. I tried a PRAM reset at this moment but that didn't do it either. I even tried different versions of Mac installs but with the same result. In the end I even tried to run my Discwarrior boot disc but it also crashes. So I can't seem to boot anything except my messed up Snow Leopard install.
Note that I also tried booting from an external hard drive but with the same result.
At last I tried booting in single user mode and I used the "fsck -y" commando but that gave me some Disc Errors.
Ok lets get things clear, I want to format my Macintosh HD and peform a clean install, what should I do ?
I bought a 2nd hand Apple MacBook about 18 months ago (via eBay). It is my first Mac. It did not come with its original OS X 10.5.8 Installation Disc/s and I now have one or more problems with my Hard Drive, so I need the Installation Disc/s.where I can buy the correct (genuine) version of Installation Disc/s for my MacBook?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I've read many reviews saying that the remote disc installation takes 5-6 hours, so after loading the installation, I thought that I would leave it working through the night...
However the "time left" only showed 1,2 hours
In total it took me no more than 1 hour to get a fresh Mac OSX using Wlan...it's simply amazing in my opinion, I even don't know whether the external drive would have done it better.
So don't be scarde to reinstall it with remote disc guys, or waste money on the drive unless you really need it.
Do I have to use an installation disc or download anything? Should I just plug in and record with garageband?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'm having problems with a Boot Camp partition and XP Professional SP2.
I setup a 20GB partition on my drive (I'm using a MacBook Pro, 3GB, 120GB hard drive). It's the only partition other than the one I use for OS X.
I didn't have full-install SP2 discs, only an upgrade. So I went to Fry's and bought a legal, new OEM disc and license for XP Professional SP2, full-install. I ran the installer and all went well...until I rebooted. At that point, Windows wouldn't load giving me a non-system disc error.
I got an iMac with Snow Leopard factory installed. I now want to update to Lion, but I'm not sure if, when I update, all my apps will still be there. I do have the app installation disc from Snow Leopard, will it still work in case the apps won't be there?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I've been having problems with iCal and would like to reinstall it using Utilities Disc 1 with the Superdrive. However, there only appears to be an option to reinstall ALL the bundled software, at which point I've aborted the reinstallation process. Sledgehammer to crack a nut! It's only iCal I'm having trouble with (e.g searches not clearing down, "today" button greys out.) If it's not possible to reinstall just iCal from disc, does anyone know a way to "repair or mend" a malfunctioning iCal?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI went to do a system update which froze on "Configuring The Install" (or something similar). So I gave my quad Mac Pro a cold reboo and I get a prohibited sign, or whatever. (You know, the ghostbusters symbol without the ghost.) I know, I deserve that though, shame on me for turning it off during a system update. I waited a LONG time. I don't think that's the root problem though. Anyway, I boot up via the system CD, load up Disk Utility, which (takes forever) and after trying to Verify, I get an "Invalid B-Node Size" error. I try to click "OK" but Disk Utility continues to be unresponsive for a long time. I wait it out, reboot back into Windows and here I am.
The hard drive is super old. Like probably 7 years. It's a Maxtor 6Y120, 114 gig SATA drive. So I think it's probably just failing. Disk Utility couldn't unmount it or verify it. So what I want to do is just reinstall Leopard, but I have a LOT of work stuff on my Windows drive. (A separate physical SATA drive, not a partition.) Obviously I will back it all up, but I would definitely like to avoid reinstalling Windows, all my apps, and restoring my work files.
So I have a couple of questions - 1) Will re-installing Leopard "orphan" my Windows bootcamp drive, so I can no longer boot into it? I would want to erase my Mac HD or possibly buy a new one to replace it. Which brings me to my 2nd question - 2) If I buy a completely new hard drive and install Leopard there, will my bootcamp partition still be bootable/intact? Or will they hate eachother?
I downloaded it from [URL] and it opens up but then it says "could not verify the integrity of the installer" and then I click OK and it quits.
View 3 Replies View RelatedSo I just installed the new 200GB OWC Mercury Extreme SSD (SandForce Chip) in my 2008 Penryn (non-Uni) MacBook-Pro.
Seems pretty fast and all, but iStat is displaying a temperature of 263 degrees?#!#$%@@#
I know this thing can't be operating at 263 degrees, though I placed the temp monitor at the exact same location it resided on my prior 5400 RPM hard drive. Not sure what the problem could be.
I am thinking of sending in my Mac Mini to OWC because I'm not good with the insides of computers. I am wondering how the Service works. So am I suppose to add the Service, the RAM, and the Hard Drive to my basket and it knows what to do? When I get the box, do I go to a local FedEx facility to send it back? Is there anything else I need to know? I need advice from people who have sent in there Macs to OWC. Sorry if I sound like a noob, I am new to Macs and just wondering how the service works.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm reloading my computer to clean it up. I also got a lot of good apps on my comp that I want to preserve. After downloading apps, I delete the installation files to preserve memory. After putting my apps on a USB drive, will they work on my reloaded MAC without the installation? Some apps have been payed for and registered also, will they now work?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI recently upgraded my OS with the free installation for Yosemite. When trying installing Yosemite my Macbook Pro running Mavericks asked me for the user password, which I provided.Yosemite installed fine, no problems.
Now, however, I am needing to install some software on my Macbook Pro after installing Yosemite. Like before, it asked me for my password, but this time it came back as incorrect. I tried several more times and it's still registering as incorrect.
I followed the directions shown here: OS X Yosemite: Reset a login password
However, I can't follow the instructions past step 4:
4. Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Users & Groups.
5. Log in to your account....
When I click on Users & Groups, I don't see anything that allows me to log in to my account (I'm assuming it's because I'm already logged into it?). I only see options to Change the Password, open the Contacts Card, Login Options, and change Parental Controls. When I select "Change the Password", it asks me to enter the old password, which I can't do for obvious reasons.
So what can I do to recover my existing password?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
After I installed maverick on my imac, my time machine backups don't work anymore!!!! I have a normal portable HDD attached to my Imac with time capsule backup from before mavericks was installed.I also has a Buffalo NAS as a second Time Machine Backup.
Time capsule does not recognise my Buffalo NAS and tells me that it is not available. It has previous backups from Mountain Lion for sure!My portable HDD keeps saying "Preparing for backup" for eternity. I can connect to my portable HDD and Buffalo NAS as a drive. What I have been doing is to copy and paste the important stuff into the drives. But it really defeats the purpose of time machine.
After installing 4GB of RAM on my unibody macbook pro, I get a kernel panic error. Am I right that the problem is about CPU? Is that mean that it is dying or broken?
Here what is said:
Interval Since Last Panic Report: 141459 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 2
Anonymous UUID: F96DF9E1-E94C-4FC7-B934-5DFD765093C4
Thu Nov 4 20:34:54 2010
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x9ca5d7): NVRM[0/2:0:0]: Read Error 0x00000100: CFG 0xffffffff 0xffffffff 0xffffffff, BAR0 0xd4000000 0x59938000 0x096380c1, D0, P3/4
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x58d5b938 : 0x21b455 (0x5cf328 0x58d5b96c 0x2238b1 0x0)
0x58d5b988 : 0x9ca5d7 (0xbd6f0c 0xc45f80 0xbe4468 0x0)
0x58d5ba28 : 0xadd179 (0x95b5404 0x95b3004 0x100 0x2)
0x58d5ba78 : 0xad4cae (0x95b3004 0x100 0x58d5bb08 0x2)
0x58d5baa8 : 0x17c181e (0x95b3004 0x100 0x4bcd2cee 0x13b0103)
0x58d5bbe8 : 0xafaf45 (0x95b3004 0x95b1004 0x0 0x0)
0x58d5bc28 : 0x9d3836 (0x95b3004 0x95b1004 0x0 0x0)
0x58d5bc68 : 0x9cfaf5 (0x0 0x9 0x0 0x0)
0x58d5bdc8 : 0x9d1a5d (0x0 0x600d600d 0x702a 0x58d5bdf8)
0x58d5be98 : 0x9685f4 (0xc1d0002e 0xaa910001 0x20802040 0x58d5bee0)
0x58d5bef8 : 0xd132e9 (0x8f4e400 0x58d5bf4c 0x0 0x7)
0x58d5bf58 : 0xd13486 (0x8f43800 0xd19ab4 0x58d5bf78 0x2a1591)
0x58d5bf78 : 0x22fb84 (0x8f43800 0x0 0x0 0x73847d61)
0x58d5bfc8 : 0x29e6cc (0x863ea0 0x0 0x10 0x9a5f0a0)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.driver.AGPM(100.12.12)@0xd10000->0xd19fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.1)@0x937000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.1)@0x959000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x926000
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal(6.1.8)@0x1693000->0x1ab4fff
dependency: com.apple.NVDAResman(6.1.8)@0x966000
com.apple.NVDAResman(6.1.8)@0x966000->0xc47fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.6)@0x926000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(2.1)@0x959000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(2.1)@0x937000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
10F569
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.4.0: Fri Apr 23 18:28:53 PDT 2010; root:xnu-1504.7.4~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacBookPro5,1 (Mac-F42D86C8)
System uptime in nanoseconds: 13213256682202
unloaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43224425.16.2 (addr 0xd54000, size 0x1523712) - last unloaded 105226877102
loaded kexts:
com.apple.driver.AppleHWSensor1.9.3d0 - last loaded 24131381015
com.apple.filesystems.ntfs3.2
com.apple.driver.AGPM100.12.12
com.apple.driver.AppleHDA1.8.7f1
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyHIDDriver1.2.0
com.apple.driver.SMCMotionSensor3.0.0d4
com.apple.driver.AppleMikeyDriver1.8.7f1
com.apple.filesystems.autofs2.1.0
com.apple.driver.AudioAUUC1.4
com.apple.kext.AppleSMCLMU1.5.0d3
com.apple.Dont_Steal_Mac_OS_X7.0.0
com.apple.driver.AudioIPCDriver1.1.2
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelPenrynProfile17
com.apple.driver.ACPI_SMC_PlatformPlugin4.1.2b1
com.apple.driver.AppleLPC1.4.12
com.apple.driver.AppleGraphicsControl2.8.63
com.apple.driver.AppleUpstreamUserClient3.3.2
com.apple.GeForce6.1.8
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCButtons1.8.1b1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBTCKeyboard1.8.1b1
com.apple.driver.AppleIRController303.8
com.apple.iokit.SCSITaskUserClient2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOAHCIBlockStorage1.6.2
com.apple.BootCache31
com.apple.AppleFSCompression.AppleFSCompressionTypeZlib1.0.0d1
com.apple.driver.AppleSmartBatteryManager160.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleFWOHCI4.7.1
com.apple.driver.AirPortBrcm43xx423.91.27
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBHub4.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleAHCIPort2.1.2
com.apple.nvenet2.0.15
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBEHCI4.0.2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBOHCI3.9.6
com.apple.driver.AppleEFINVRAM1.3.0
com.apple.driver.AppleRTC1.3.1
com.apple.driver.AppleHPET1.5
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIButtons1.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBIOS1.6
com.apple.driver.AppleACPIEC1.3.2
com.apple.driver.AppleAPIC1.4
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient105.10.0
com.apple.security.sandbox0
com.apple.security.quarantine0
com.apple.nke.applicationfirewall2.1.11
com.apple.driver.AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement105.10.0
com.apple.driver.DspFuncLib1.8.7f1
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileReadCounterAction17
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileTimestampAction10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileThreadInfoAction14
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileRegisterStateAction10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileKEventAction10
com.apple.driver.AppleProfileCallstackAction20
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireIP2.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOSurface74.0
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothSerialManager2.3.7f1
com.apple.iokit.IOSerialFamily10.0.3
com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily1.7.6fc2
com.apple.kext.OSvKernDSPLib1.3
com.apple.driver.AppleHDAController1.8.7f1
com.apple.iokit.IOHDAFamily1.8.7f1
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusController1.0.8d0
com.apple.iokit.AppleProfileFamily41
com.apple.driver.AppleSMC3.0.1d2
com.apple.driver.IOPlatformPluginFamily4.1.2b1
com.apple.driver.AppleSMBusPCI1.0.8d0
com.apple.nvidia.nv50hal6.1.8
com.apple.NVDAResman6.1.8
com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport2.1
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily2.1
com.apple.driver.BroadcomUSBBluetoothHCIController2.3.7f1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBBluetoothHCIController2.3.7f1
com.apple.iokit.IOBluetoothFamily2.3.7f1
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMultitouch205.32
com.apple.iokit.IOUSBHIDDriver4.0.2
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBMergeNub4.0.0
com.apple.driver.AppleUSBComposite3.9.0
com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIMultimediaCommandsDevice2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOBDStorageFamily1.6
com.apple.iokit.IODVDStorageFamily1.6
com.apple.iokit.IOCDStorageFamily1.6
com.apple.driver.XsanFilter402.1
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com.apple.iokit.IOSCSIArchitectureModelFamily2.6.5
com.apple.iokit.IOFireWireFamily4.2.6
com.apple.iokit.IO80211Family311.1
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com.apple.iokit.IOSMBusFamily1.1
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Model: MacBookPro5,1, BootROM MBP51.007E.B05, 2 processors, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB, SMC 1.33f8
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT, NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT, PCIe, 256 MB
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M, PCI, 256 MB
Memory Module: global_name
AirPort: spairport_wireless_card_type_airport_extreme (0x14E4, 0x8D), Broadcom BCM43xx 1.0 (5.10.91.27)
Bluetooth: Version 2.3.7f1, 2 service, 12 devices, 1 incoming serial ports
Network Service: Ethernet, Ethernet, en0
Serial ATA Device: Hitachi HTS543225L9SA02, 232,89 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R UJ-868
USB Device: Built-in iSight, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8507, 0x24400000
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x0237, 0x04600000
USB Device: IR Receiver, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8242, 0x04500000
USB Device: USB Optical Mouse, 0x046d (Logitech Inc.), 0xc046, 0x06200000
USB Device: BRCM2046 Hub, 0x0a5c (Broadcom Corp.), 0x4500, 0x06100000
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller, 0x05ac (Apple Inc.), 0x8213, 0x06110000
I installed windows xp on my macbook, only problem is I installed Windows over mac os x. So now when i turn on my macbook it loads windows xp from the start and the right click button and the eject button on the keyboard dont work. So now i am trying to reinstall mac os x and i cant find my os x disc, so i have leopard on a flash drive and i cant install it, and i have mac os 8 so i was going to try and install that and then open my flash drive and install leopard, but it wont boot, I help every button on start up and nothing works.
View 13 Replies View RelatedI'm in possession of a mac pro 2x 2.8ghz intel quad core running leopard. I have a main hardrive and a secondary harddrive. I was attempting to reformat the first hd and reinstall leopard. I pop in the cd as I have with many other systems, click the install startup and reboot, after about 4 minutes of waiting I see the black screen drop and it asks me to restart my comp, presumably a kernel panic error. I've done this with two different hd's to rule out it being an hd problem. I've also procured a friend's copy of leopard and the same problem occurs. The system was acquired from a local business that closed recently and sold off it's stuff which is how I came into possession of the system. It has no 3d party hardware that I can see. I find myself wondering if it is a problem with the motherboard and since the system used to be for business purposes perhaps there is some sort of block or lockout on the mobo that's preventing an installation.
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