I've been using some cd-rw discs for music and backing up my photos. What are the capabilities of rewriting and erasing stuff that I put on the discs since I can't seem to erase or rewrite anything I've already put on them?
View 5 RepliesI rewrote lion onto my computer that was shipped with snow leopard. I now do not have iLife on my computer how do I get it back? I never received a disk they were part of snow leopard with a free upgrade to iLife 11 when I bought them with my 27" iMac mid 2011 shipped with snow Leopard but had a free upgrade to Lion.
Info:iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I couldn't find it on OS X. On windows I used to right click the CD/DVD and click erase, but I don't see a similar option on my Mac. Do I need any special application for this?
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View 1 Replies View Relatedtoday after long saving I bought my first apple product An imAc 24" (awesome stuff )
My mom asked me to put Vista on it because she has trouble with OS X, when I used bootcamp to divide my HDD I took to much space for windows (like 450gb ) Only leaving me, the biggest user of this comp with 100gb on my OS X lol)
Any way to make the Windows partition smaller and add the extra free space to my OS X partition without erasing any thing?
My iMac gives an error when trying to backup, so I'm trying to erase the sparsebundle and start over. Every time I try, i get an error saying "The operation cannot be completed because the item 'bands' is in use."
Any ideas on what "bands" is and how I can erase the TC? Is there a way to restore to factory settings instead of trying to erase the sparsebundles? (plural because I back up both my MB and iMac on it.
putting my Macbook up for sale and was wondering if there's a quick way of returning the Mac to the settings when it was new?
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI follow the instruction to erase the hard disk and format my new imac os lion but i found some problem when i deleting the hard disk.I follow all the intrustion came to the DU part, click erase on top, select the hard disk thn click erase, but it show that erase fail " unmount disk" what does it mean?
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iMac
I appear to be getting more and more available HDD space on my Mac despite not actually deleting anything.
Yesterday it looked like approx 30GB was freed up and today about another 25GB.
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MacBookPro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I have an External 1 TB HDD where 250 GB of it is dedicated to Time Machine back-ups. I only have about 25 GB of space left but Time Machine won't update .. says there's not enough space. I thought that TM auto-deletes the oldest entry? Well it's not working. What should I do? Do I need to do into Disk Utility and just highlight my TM Partition and erase it then start over? There's nothing on it that I need.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIn the effort to use Time Machine, I want to partition my external drive. I have 500 gig external, and would like to have one partition of 480 and one around 20. This way, Time Machine will only back up onto the smaller partition, not endlessly backing up until all 500 gigs are used. The reason I need to partition without erasing is my 170 gig iTunes library. Its too large to transfer to my internal HD, and I have no other drive to store it on.
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View 2 Replies View RelatedI have noticed lately that as I am typing, the words will highlight and erase randomly. It makes it very hard and annoying to type when none of the words will stay. Do you know what the problem could be? This has never happened before to me.
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View 14 Replies View RelatedI have a WD external drive that was set up as my time machine backup disc with Leopard. I want to erase the disc, but when I try to erase it using disc utility, it tells me "Disk Erase failed with the error: Unable to write to the last block of the device".
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iMac, Related to an external drive
I did the upgrade from Snow Leopard to Lion. I've been having random issues like it seems to go to sleep (all monitors go black) and when I close the lid; the light goes on (but doesn't blink like normal sleep). Or during wake-up from sleep, after everything appears, it does the same thing. The only thing I can do it hold down the power button, wait, and restart. Today I'm on my 4 1/2 crash/reboot. (.5 because during a reboot, it locked up again.) I was thinking that maybe a re-install might fix something, but I'm not sure. When I originally did the upgrade, I had a DisplayLink driver installed which Lion moved to the Unsupported folder; don't know if this is part of my problem or not.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I installed Snow Leopard long after installing OS X5.5, now updated to 10.6.8. If I have to erase the HD and reinstall all software, Would I have to use the install CD's for both 10.5.5 and Snow Leopard?
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MacBook Pro
I am selling my MacBook with Yosemite installed. I have been using iMessage and iTune, but erased the hard disk before logging off iMessage and iTune. It now starts in a setup screen as factory setting. Do I still need to setup and manually log off?
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MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2014), OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo iMac using OS 10.6.4. I'd like to renew/erase the Airport networks listed under the Airport logo at the top banner of my iMac. My hope is to re-install Airport Express and have a wireless network again. I have tried using Airport Utility but get no where with it. In a related question: do Airport Express devices wear out after being used for 2-3 years or are they bullet-proof? I'm wondering if that is my problem.
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI was doing some cleanup on my macbook pro, deleting old log files and suddenly the system froze. I turned off and then on the laptop and to my surprise, the Mac partition doesn't show up on bootcamp menu, and I'm taken directly to Windows.I tried booting from the install disk and repairing the disk with Disk Utility, and although all my data seems to be all right (I can see all of it from Windows), and Disk Utility did not find any errors, when I reboot (while holding the option key) only Windows shows up.
View 1 Replies View RelatedIm really close, well just about done on selling my powerbook and I want to erase my HD so I can give it to the buyer by "factory settings", especially by erasing all my keychain passwords.
View 24 Replies View RelatedI installed Ubuntu on my iMac, and it made 2 new partitions: DISK0S3 and Linux Swap. Here's what my disk utlity looks like: When I try to remove Linux Swap, it says that the partition (map is too small. When I try to remove DISK0S3, nothing happens and it keeps running forever before I press +Q to quit.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI just read at a Wiki Limewire entry that in a small sampling, thirty percent of downloaded files had malware. Do you feel this is true? I've used it quite a bit in the past. Is there a way to purge my Mac of any malware, without erasing the entire drive?
View 12 Replies View RelatedI was doing a 7-Pass Erase of a hard drive that I had switched out of my MBP. During the process, the USB cable connecting my hard drive to my MBP got disconnected. Now, whenever I connect this external drive to my MBP, it doesn't show up in the desktop or under disk utiltiy. How can I can continue the process of erasing and formatting the drive? What do I have to do in order for OS X to recognize it?
View 2 Replies View RelatedIf I want to erase the bootcamp partition, what steps would I have to take? I opened Disk Utility under OS X Tiger as an administrator, but the options to erase or repartition are grayed out. I still have Tiger, so the bootcamp assistant is long gone. Also, does erasing the copy of XP deactivate the key, allowing me to reinstall my copy of XP onto another computer with that key? I won't be upgrading the computer to Leopard since I'm replacing it with a new Macbook Pro with Leopard already installed. I also would rather not spend much money to buy some software to do this.
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