OS X V10.5 Leopard :: Can't Find My Disk To Reload It
Jun 18, 2012My mail app on my 10.5.8 went into the trash by accident. I can't find my disk to reload it. Where can I download the disk for this compnuter?
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
My mail app on my 10.5.8 went into the trash by accident. I can't find my disk to reload it. Where can I download the disk for this compnuter?
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I have a G5. It started whining loudly and now it has a black sceen. Can't find old discs to reboot.
View 8 Replies View RelatedI have a Power Mac G4 (Mirror Front) and am currently running Leopard (10.5.8) on it. It came with a 20 GB HD and I have added a 250 GB HD to it. What I would like to do is transfer the OS over to the 250 GB drive. I've seen some posts that talk about cloning software. Is that the best way or could I some how reload the OS on the bigger drive and remove or make the smaller drive a slave.
Info:PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5.8), G4
Made a few missteps while cloning my drive to an external destination.I need to get my internal drive reloaded. Preferrably with a clone BACK. I keep getting kernel panics & cannot boot from what I have managed to clone back.cloned my drive (formatted SL X.6.8) to an external USB (yes, its a tad slow) in order to test drive my applications on Lion.This was done using Intego's Personal Backup. The backup wound up being unjournaled.Made a stupid mistake allowing the internal drive to be optimized by TechTool (it was journaled).I assume this could be the first cause of my problem.Since that internal partition would not boot any longer & the icon would not show, I used Disk Utility to repair the volume.The volume is a partition on my internal drive. The second partition is formatted for Windows. that's intact.After repairing, the icon is back.Apparently you can only back up Time Machine back to the original drive FROM the original drive (?). AlthoughI am not very recent in Time Machine backups, having turned it off a few weeks ago anyway.I then tried to clone BACK to the internal using CCC. It seems to have put the folders back.On start up I have the options of External clone (not the actual name), Windows partition, or "EFI" which may not be theinternal, rather a TechTool Boot of some sort.I'm going to try & retrace the same step - of clearing that internal partition & try to load a clone from the external clone one more time,to see if it becomes bootable.
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Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I've download a Seagate Diagnostics programme to check whether my external Seagate FreeAgent Desk is working properly or not. However, when I run the programme, it indicates that cannot find the disk.
View -1 Replies View RelatedRecently I purchased an external hard disk, to put all of my pictures of my baby due to space limitations on my internal laptop drive. Since my Canon camera 10 megapixel pictures take up a ton of space this was occurring at an alarming rate. My intention was also to back up to DVD but never got to it. This is both a comment and a question.
Now said baby, is getting really good at pulling cords etc. He managed to do this on the external drive firewire cable. As far as i know the drive was not in the process of actually writing. However, after a few minutes and trying to re-plug the drive the OS crashed with a Grey Screen of Death hardware error that tells you that you need to push the power button..
This apparently corrupted the drive's directory. Upon reboot the drive would not mount. Since there were time machine backups on the drive too Diskwarrior was not able to reconstruct the drive in the built in memory available on the computer. Time machine stores millions of files and Diskwarrior apparently wants to keep it all in memory at once. Since my computer has 2GB you would hope that would be enough but apparently not. So that failed. Other utilities seemed to be able to find the files but not restore the directory. I also took it to the apple store they were not able to recover it.
I have to say this is extremely distressing, and hard to believe that a simple accident like this could cost the loss of thousands of pictures. I did send it to a rescue company but that was expensive but I think apple needs to do something about this situation.
On Windows there is a way to disable the write cache for external drives. This is not available for Mac OS X. This would prevent this rather common occurrence of a plug accidentally becoming disengaged when the drive is not in the process of writing. This reduces the odds but I still think apple, in order to become clearly superior, needs a better solution.
I know Apple has experimented with ZFS would this not eliminate this possibility of this kind of disaster? Is this in Snow Leopard desktop? I know they are thinking this is a business customer focused technology but clearly if it can eliminate this kind of thing then I think it is extremely useful to their non server customers. Perhaps there are other ways of dealing with this issue but ZFS is designed to deal with these issues. HFS+ is extremely fragile to disk corruption.
I know my situation is not that uncommon and this is not the first time this has happened to me with an external drive. You would think I had learned. I hate to think of how many other people have had the same thing happen to them.
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MacBook Pro
Mac OS X (10.5.8)
I'm trying to repair my hard drive. I restarted from the OS X Mac Mini install CD (holding down the letter C when I heard the chime), opened Disk Utility from the Utilities folder, selected my hard drive image, but the "verify disk" and "repair disk" options are grayed out. I'm at a loss as to how to proceed.
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Mac Mini
Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Running Disk Utility's Repair Disk function from DVD, how long should this take to complete with a 1 TB drive? It's been nearly 24 hours so far. I booted the computer from the DVD, and after verifying the disk was told the disk needed repair.
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iMac G5, Mac OS X (10.4.3)
How do I launch disk utility from the Snow Leo install disk?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI am having problems with my Mac running slow. I had a friend guide me to run a "repair disk permission".I did that but I am not sure if I am to click clear history.Also should I do anything else to help my Mac run better?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have an old Macbook via 2007 and I'm trying to update my operating system (currently OS 10.5.8) to Snow Leopard, but the disk is not reading in the disk drive. And unfortunately, Snow Leopard is only on a DVD, it can't be downloaded.I figure I have 2 choices:
1) take it in and spend $49 to have them do diagnostics and then tell me they probably need to replace the superdriveÂ
2) I could buy an external optical drive. But I would need to know which one would be compatable with my old *** Macbook.
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Macbook
I have a macmini (80GB HD) with an external USB HD of 160GB. The external drive has 2 partitions and on one of them (size: 100GB) I make time machine backups, but the partition also contains a few other folders. The finder tells me this partition, has only 26GB available space. looking at the size of the folders, there is only something like 30GB used, so it seems 44 GB is not accounted for!
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy IMac is about 1 year old. It is a 20 inch 2.4 intel iMac. It froze today the mouse wouldn't move or anything. My kids were messing around with it. So I just turned it off and back on. After a couple of minutes of gray screen a folder with a question mark flashes over and over again. So I got on my macbook to see what it meant, I found out that the iMac couldn't find its start up disk. So I went to apple support trouble shooting and it said start it up using the install disc which I did. It said go to start up utility and repair the disc. The start up disc doesn't show up, so they said if that happens reset the PRAM, which I did like 3 times, and nothing. They said if all these steps fail just reinstall using the installation disc. Which I did but when it said where would you like to install Mac OS X, you would normally see the Hard Drive Icon and it is gone, there is nothing there.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI got a 500GB WD external disk for my MBP 2.2GHZ/2GB/500GB which with up-dated Snow Leopard and Windows XP pro(Boot camp). Here's wot happened and my probs:Last Tuesday I used the external disk with no problem. But on Friday the external disk is unable to be founded by MBP either in Disk Utility or Finder. I tried to switch to Windows XP where I installed MacDrive to read Mac partition under windows. The system says it cannt install the disk coz device unrecognizable. First I suspect it 's the problem with external disk enclosure but when I replaced it with another new one, problem stay still.
So here's some questions, First, is there any instruction I can take to solve the issue, or if the disk unfortunately crashed any possible chance I can rescue the data (My vital working data achieve is inside) using application or else.
installing an SSD in my mac pro 1.01 of 2007 afterrestarting the mac I went out one with a question mark with the famous gray screen, and I do not recognize any system disk.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How do I find out the disk space of my mcbook pro?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
please help tried everything dont have correct install disk but have macbook disk. utility cant repair.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
I've been kicking around the idea of reformatting my iMac and starting fresh. It's not slow by any means (2.4ghz aluminum, 4gb ram, 320gb hd), but when I create a new user account I can tell the new account is faster. That is what is primarily pushing me to go ahead and reformat the computer with a completely fresh install, however it seems like I really don't need to go that far since it is only that user account that is drug down with over a year of accumulation in preferences, add-ons (such as Candybar 3, Perian, etc). The master account just is not "snappy" like a fresh account and I don't see a need in reformatting the computer if it is still fast on a new account, so. what to do? I don't want to reload all my apps in a fresh install if I don't have to, and one in particular (iMovieHD) I CAN'T reload since I can't find the disk anymore (one out of 30 disks I have goes wandering, it had to be that one).
What's REALLY been bugging me though, is Safari. I'm on 3.1.2 and it really just isn't cutting it. On my test account it is easily faster than on my master account. What all should I delete in my Safari app to get it back to factory fresh speeds without attempting to reinstall it? It takes about one full second longer to load on my master account Safari than on the fresh test account I made on my iMac. I can open Adobe Photoshop CS4 in under 4 seconds so I know the computer isn't dragging. It seems like it is mostly Safari that is sluggish, but then at times it seems like that neck snapping speed of opening windows in finder also is just slightly delayed making it feel not as fast. I dunno, what should I do from here to snap things up in Safari and maybe finder as well? It can't be much slowing me down with CS4 opening in under 4 seconds. I mean.... I can almost open Photoshop CS4 as fast as I can switch web pages so. Safari really isn't working out at the moment. I'm on the upgraded 22Mbps comcast package so I have plenty of pipeline behind my internet.
Was running Lion on a Macbook mid 2007, when the 160GB HDD failed. Ordered a new Momentus 250 gigger reinstalled Leopard to 10.6.8, pulled the last backup off of my external drive and have everything back, but can not re-install Lion. My iTunes wont load, I have a bunch of icons from the old Lion OS with the circle with the line on them.
Info:MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Was Lion
We had an issue with our macbook about a year ago and when it was sent into and Apple authoized service they upgraded it machine from 10.6 to 10.7. Now a year later we want to totally clean the machine and restore to factory status (to seel it as we have upgraded to an new macbookpro)but it seems we need a dik to do that - any options??
View 1 Replies View RelatedMy Mac Mini has started showing the spinning rainbow and then not responding. I'd like to wipe the HD and reinstall the OS that came with the system (no DVD). Can I do this?
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.7.4), 500 TB HD, no DVD
I have a MacBook with MacOS 10.5.5. I purchased Snow Leopard and want to install it, but I forgot my master password. I know what the password is supposed to be, but it doesn't work when I type it in.
I cannot find my original MacOS 10.5 disk to re-do the password.
I'm fairly Technical, I just can't seem to figure this one out. I own a 13 Inch Macbook with the stock 120 GB HD. It was purchased this past September 2008. I bought a new HD from Newegg. Here is the link to the HD. [URL]
I read the reviews, and more than 20 reviews I read said this HD worked perfectly in their Macbook.
-So I received the HD yesterday
-I put it inside my laptop
-I put in the OSX install CD
-I powered up and held down C and booted into OSX Installer
-From the menu I selected Disk Utility but the hard drive does not show up as listed hard drives
After all attempts failed, I put the disk in my windows machine as an extra sata drive, and it booted perfectly fine, so I know the disk is ok. Some other thoughts?
-The difference between the stock and new HD is size and also 1.5 GB vs 3.0 GB Transer rate
-Does my Macbook need a firmware upgrade - I doubt this, but just a thought
-Does the Macbook not recognize unformatted disks - I doubt this too.
I am quite new in Mac OS X 10.5 (leopard). I just downloaded from windows msdn a .iso file (with the XP Operating system). Now I want to burn it on a CD. I found on the internet that I can do this with disk utility. Disk Utility should be under Applications/Utilities. But it is not there, I don't find it in finder anywhere. (The computer was installed by the vendor). Do I need to install it from my installation disks? I already looked to disk 1, but I do not know what to install.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI can't find the disk drive on my macbook pro. I think it was accidentally drug into a folder, but can't find it anywhere. how to locate this? The macbook will still play movies, but if I go to look for the drive, I can't locate it anywhere.
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), iOS 5.1
I have a 6 yr old macbook pro that I want to give to my son.I cannot find the install disk that came with the computer, but I do have snow leopard.Can you help me erase my information and install SL?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI have a MacPro that i use to rip all the dvds I own. I then stream these movies to my Apple TV in the living room. So I have 2 hard drives in 2 out of the 4 HDD bays in the Mac Pro. Drive 1 is my OSX drive with Apps. Drive 2 is a 1TB drive that just stores all the movies. In itunes all the movies are pointed to that 2nd HDD.
I saw a great deal on a 2TB HDD and wanted to use that instead. So I wanted to put that 2TB drive in Bay 3 and copy all the movies from 1TB HDD in Bay 2 to 2TB HDD in Bay 3. Then I will swap the 1TB drive with the 2TB drive and only use that 2TB drive for movies. So now I should have a OSX boot HDD along with a 2TB HDD with movies, and a spare 1TB HDD (used for Time machine later)
The question I want to know is, when I put the 2TB drive in with the exact same movies into Bay 2 will itunes still recognize it? Or will I need point every movie again to the new harddrive?
Where can find info to completely wipe my hard drive and then reload Lion and the other programs?
Info:Mac 20 desk Top, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I have changed usb drives, but i tunes will not let me change the database. I have tried to delete the program from my computer and reloaded it but Itunes still finds the old database not the new one, their has to be a file some where that i can't find that keeps the old info.Â
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mac mini 1.6, Mac OS X (10.6)
This never happened before I updraded to Lion. I will have a few tabs open and suddenly I get a message saying Safari needs to reload all tabs. It often hangs forcing me to quit and restart Safari. It happens when I am using private browsing and even when I am not.
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MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)