OS X :: Possible To Update Imac Using MBP Restore DVD?
Aug 22, 2009
I am asking this a possible question and not a legal question.I have an Intel iMac running Tiger and an Intel MBP running leopard. I was told by a friend that I could use my Leopard restore disks to update the iMac so they both were running leopard. I am unsure if this will actually work since they two different computers running two different OSs. The reason I am curious about this because I catching the SL bug and want to tinker with it a little bit once it come out and I do not want to buy the Box set since I already purchased iLife 09 for my MBP and I use Microsoft Office for Mac plus it seems like it will be around $170. I do not want to update my MBP because it is what I user for school and work along with being the thing I take with me where every I go.
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Sep 8, 2014
I have an external hard drive which shows all time machine backups but I cannot restore to an earlier time, restore button blanked out.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
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Apr 15, 2009
The MacBooks are rumored to be switching to Nehalem late this year. Do you think the iMac will be updated with them?
I can't really imagine, the Laptops being Nehalem and the iMac not.
Any thoughts?
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Sep 7, 2014
I updated osx to mavericks and its been unstable since that update. How do i remove the update and restore it to its original os? and i didnt know i was supposed to do a backup prior to updating
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
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Feb 11, 2009
My old iMac G5 PowerPC finally had its day -- the logic board died on me. Instead of spending $900 on a new logic board, I decided to purchase a new intel based iMac.
I used Time Machine to back up my data on my G5. I obviously want this data on my new iMac. However -- I don't want the old applications (like iLife 06, etc etc.). I would obviously like to keep the new applications (like iLife 09).
So I guess my question is this: If I do a full restore, does that only do my files or does it include all my apps from my G5?
If it includes the apps, is there a way to do a piece meal restore to only get the files I want (music, photos, videos and documents)?
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Mar 8, 2012
I own this type of iMac and it runs Mac OS X 10.2.8 it is also a G4, Now i've read and read and READ but still the iMac refuses to update, in the Apple menu where it should be there is a blank space.
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iMac G4 (Flat Panel), Mac OSX (10.2.x)
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Jun 24, 2010
i want to restore my imac so it "like new." because its running slow. last month when i restored my mac mini it got 99% but never finished. had to take it to the apple store so they can restore it. i dont want to do that with my imac because it's big.
MY QUESTION IS, is there a way to tell if your snow leopard disk work and theres no problems with it be4 i go throughout the restore process.
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Feb 6, 2012
summary of events:Update form 10.7.02 to 10.7.3 went wrongAfter Time Machine Restore no more Recovery PartionLost about what to do On Saturday, I startet to update 10.7.2 to 10.7.3 on my MB Pro 15" (2007) Apples Software Update showed the combo update, and so I started download and installation. Just before that, I had run Time Machine on an external USB drive, so I was relaxed.After about 2 hours, the update was still running with no progress. After another hour, I forced a restart. Not very suprisingly, after the login, the wheel beneath the Apple logo kept on running.So I restarted from the Recovery Partition, selected my Time Machine-Backup from the external USB drive, selected my internal HD as target and clicked on "go".While the progress bar showed progress, I waited. Then it seemed to be complete and the MBP restarted. Now I got a folder with a question mark. My heart rate did not yet accelerate, since I had a back up, right? So I restarted again trying to boot from Recovery Partition - BUT, there was no longer a Recovery Partition. Or at least, nothing I could boot from.
What options do I have? I could get my hands on a DVD that contains an Lion installation from the app store, but that is not the most recent version, as far as I can tell. If I would go that way:Does the version of the Lion-app matter?Will it create a Recovery Partition?If not, how else could I restore a complete Time-Machine backup?
Naturally, I a am mad as **** at Apple. First, that they abandoned physical media for Mac OS distribution, and secondly that some not so bright lad thought it not necessary to secure the availability of the Recovery Partition under any circumstances short of phyical damage.
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Macbook Pro 15, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
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Mar 3, 2009
Since the positive/negative ratings on the front page are always more tilted towards negative, rate the iMac update by stars here. Feel free to add a comment explaining your rating, or what could've made it better.
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Mar 21, 2010
I sold my iMac aluminum and bought a used macbook pro that didn't come with the OSX recovery discs. Can I use the OSX discs that came with my iMac as backups for the macbook? I have heard that the software is tied to a particular machine but I just wanted to verify before I buy a new copy of Snow Leopard.
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May 12, 2010
I have a new 27"iMac following a smashed screen on my old 24" iMac. I have the time machine backup luckily!
But I have also managed to fix my old 24" with a replacement LCD panel.
So my question is this:
How do I restore from time macine to both iMacs so I have all my iTunes films & music on both machines? I also want to put all my iTunes on my Dads new iMac which is in a different house of course.
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Jul 20, 2010
somehow my system preferences got deleted. I go to open my system preferences and it says it is incomplete or damaged. How do i restore this?
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Aug 16, 2010
I am now using a mid 2009 imac (i5 27") and will be getting the updated mid 2010 imac (15 27").
My question is; can I use a disk image of the 2009 imac and put it on the 2010 model to minimise the switching effort? I know some programmes will have to be reinstalled and I will need to unregister some things like Quark and iTunes.
Is it true that you have to make the disk image while the system has started up with the OS X DVD?
CCC warns that the image it makes will not be bootable. Can Disk utility restore the new iMac from it?
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Jun 1, 2012
I want to restore factory settings in a REALLY old iMac - we're talking the blueberry one with the huge protruding butt - but I no longer have the set-up/systems disks
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Jun 4, 2012
restore OS X Lion when starting up iMac
Info:iMac (24-inch Early 2008), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Aug 17, 2009
My Hard Drive is crashing per Hard Drive extended testing. I had noted in last 6 months certain strange things especially after software updates in which difficult in restarting. Now the OS X will not load even after working with Apple and running repairs of disc and permissions.
I am going to Apple Store with appointment to have them fix the problem.
My question is how to restore my backups which I have two main ones: the most current is .Mac Backup. My External Hard Drive was full backup but on July 5 2009.
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Jun 26, 2009
Sold my imac and was wondering the best way to have it restored back to new for the next owner? I did have to upgrade to leopard when I bought this. So I would like Leopard to be on there for next owner.
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Aug 7, 2009
My iMac just died on me, however, I had everything backed up using TimeMachine. Is it possible to restore that TimeMachine 'image' onto my Macbook as I cannot replace my iMac right now. Or would I use the migration assistant instead and choose to migrate over the old account?
The iMac was a late 2007 model and my Macbook is the CLE version (Alu Dec 08).
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Oct 26, 2009
I have an old iMac g3 w/ a 266 MHz PowerPC processor, 160MB of RAM, and a 6GB Harddrive. It is running OS X 10.2.8. I need to get rid of it, but I want to make sure it is cleared of all my data first. Maintaining functionality would be nice so that I can try to sell it. My problem is that I don't have the original install disks. How can I can wipe the memory from my iMac and restore it to a usable condition w/o the install disks.
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Jul 30, 2010
im on a goal to resize my bootcamp partition... im running 10.6.4 with Win7 in Bootcamp... i made a mistake of only making a 80GB partition for windows 7.... now i want to make it bigger, i have read up on a number of methods but most are outdated and users report issues with windows 7 and SL.
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May 2, 2012
How do I restore the up and down arrows to the right of the windows on an iMac?
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iMac, I miss the up and down arrows.
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May 16, 2012
How do I restore a deleted account with an IMAC using os 10.7.3?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Aug 22, 2014
In Numbers and only in Numbers the topmost menu bar has vanished to present a 'full screen' spreadsheet. In Pages the topmost menu bar appears as normal.
How do I restore the topmost menu bar in Numbers?I have looked in vain through 'System Preferences' and used Time Machine to go back to a spreadsheet that displayed correctly but that didn't work.
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iMac, iOS 7.1.2, up to date Numbers
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Dec 3, 2014
My hard disk failed before I could take a backup. Can I restore Apple Apps without having to buy them again?
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iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), OS X Mavericks (10.9.5)
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Jan 26, 2009
According to 2 articles posted today on macnn.com and appleinsider.com new iMacs will probably appear in March or June at the latest.
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Mar 25, 2012
I have lost my contacts. I can see them in TM, but they will not restore using the standard procedure. Restoring from iCloud is not an option. I understand that in Snow Leopard it was necessary to go to the following folder in Finder "/users/username/library/application support/address book. start address book " - and restore that folder in TM. However, that folder does not exist in Lion. How do I restore contacts using TM?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.2)
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Mar 25, 2012
Having issues getting a Time Machine restore done on my iMac running Snow Leopard. I was using a Seagate GoFlex Home network drive for the Time Machine Backups and my main drive failed and had to be replaced. When trying to restore the Time Machine does not recognize that the GoFlex has a backup to restore from. I have tried several different strategies around this. I used the terminal to make hidden files visible and I can then see some hidden files and directories on the GoFlex Home but still no actual time machine files.
I then got the adaptor for the Network Drive to turn it into an external USB 3.0 drive. I could then see and mount a time machine directory that was now visible as .timemachinebackup on the GoFlex Drive. When I reboot with install disk to perform restore the GoFlex Drive is not recognized as having any backups to restore from. Is there another terminal command or some type of special mounting I am missing? BTW - The GoFlex Drive appears as a NTFS drive in the Disk Utility.
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iMac 24 inch, Mac OS X (10.6.5), 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 DUO 4 GB SDRAM
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Apr 13, 2012
I have the restore disc from my macbook pro and want to use them to restore an IMac. Is that possible? The disc say MacBook Pro 13 inch on it. Does that matter? It is safe to do?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 24, 2012
My iMac was stolen by burglars on Friday. Sunday evening, when I found out, I ordered a remote wipe (from my Air) on the stolen iMac.  Apparently, it hasn't yet come online, though, so the wipe hasn't happened. Today I went a bought a new iMac, and right now I am restoring my (old/stolen) iMac onto my new iMac to a Time Capsule that the thieves didn't find. Suddenly, I got very worried: When it finishes restoring, and says "hi" to the internet, - will it appear to be the stolen iMac and be wiped?Â
In other words: how does iCloud identify the stolen computer - by the machine, or by it's content?(pretty worried right now, since I don't remember the six digit code that will need to be entered IF it is wiped; I made it up when I was completely frantic from the shock of walking into a home that was broken in to.)
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iMac
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Jun 26, 2012
Where is mac osx 10.6.7 factory settings. How to restore mac osx 10.6.7 factory settings
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.7), All Mac OS X
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