OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Can't Startup With An Internal Drive
Mar 25, 2012
One morning my Mac Mini would not startup, it would try to start up but after about 2 minutes the Apple would turn to the circle with a diagonal line through it. Fortunately I had installed Snow Leopard on my external Firewire 800 drive so I could startup from that drive. My internal drive now will not mount when starting from my external drive until I rebuild the drive using Drive Genesis and then run Volume Structures with Tech Tool V5.0. No other combination of utilities seems to work to make it mount. Not sure if that would makes sense to anyone that might know what is wrong and how to fix it so I could startup from my internal drive.Â
I have also tried to reinstall Snow Leopard but when starting from the install DVD the internal drive does not show up as an option for installation. I am trying to startup at least one last time from my internal drive since I have a Filemaker Pro 7 database which I have forgotten the password for but when starting up from my internal drive it opens since the password is stored in Snow Leopard. I have found programs using Windows to change or extract the FM7 password but I am trying not to spend the $30 to $40 for a program I will only use once.Â
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Mac mini, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 8 gb RAM
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Mar 30, 2012
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)
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Sep 11, 2014
On start up the white screen of death and a flashing file icon with ? is all that happens.
Have reset PRAM and SMC
Boots perfectly from external drive
Internal drive is ok, in fact I have tried two different drives both of which are working perfectly.
Doesn't start in Safe Mode
Starts in Single Use Mode Â
A1278
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,5
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.26 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 3 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP55.00AC.B03
SMC Version (system): 1.47f2
Serial Number (system): 7303202H66D
Hardware UUID: 00F60032-5E52-52B1-8945-D6BC7F175795
Snow Leopard 10.6.8Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Jul 5, 2012
i want to turn off disable my internal hard drive.Â
1.) macbook pro 1.83ghz
2.) OSX 10.6Â
i know how to remove the drive physically, that is not my question. the drive makes too much noise while i am recording in imovie. i am sure there must be a simple command line in the terminalÂ
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)
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Dec 20, 2009
The internal hard drive on my early 2009 iMac is being replaced but I have to reinstall Snow Leopard myself.I did search in MRoogle and at Apple and cannot seem to find instructions on how to perform a clean Snow Leopard install on an iMac internal HD.
Can I do this? And if so how? Or do you think I should try and install Leopard on the existing Hd in the iMac? I still have these discs but have to get the SL applications install disc out of my drive (it's stuck and the iMac won't boot past the blue screen).
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May 21, 2010
I noticed this morning my internal 1TB HDD I use for my Time Machine backups had disappeared from Finder, tried formatting/First Aid and I get the following error
Quote:
Originally Posted by Disk Utility
Disk Erase failed with the error:
POSIX reports: The operation couldn�t be completed. Cannot allocate memory
Tried the fixes on MacFixIt but I get the following errors in Terminal
Quote:
Originally Posted by Terminal
Started erase on disk1
Unmounting disk
Erasing
newfs_hfs: write (sector 0): Cannot allocate memory
Mounting disk
Could not mount disk1 with name (null) after erase
Error: -9944: File system formatter failed
Mark-Nicholsons-Mac-Pro:~ markleshark$
andddddd
Quote:
Originally Posted by Terminal
fdisk: /dev/disk1: Permission denied
Any ideas? Could really do without the drive being cooked.
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Jun 17, 2012
I have Snow Leopard 10.6.8 on my Mac Pro and also backup using Time Machine. My main (startup) hard drive is close to failing-- before it does I want to transfer everything to a new internal drive. Seems to be there are several ways to do this:
1. Clone the original drive to the newer drive with 3rd party software (such as ChronoSync?)
2. Restore to the new HDD from Time Machine (which I believe requires me to clean install Snow Leopard on the new drive?)
3. Use Migration Assistant.
Which would be the best route?
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), Quad Core, Intel Xeon
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Mar 26, 2012
I have managed to put a document into the Internal Modem Fax Queue, but I cannot get the job to actually Start sending.My MBP is connected to my DSL line via Airport.The Airport Base is the old Snow Flying Saucer. Maybe I need to connect it to the telephone line via its phone jack? And include the DSL filter in-line ?
Info:
Safari, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 9, 2009
Basically I have a copy of the OS X 10.5 DVD's that came with my Mac saved on a separate partition of my hard drive in my MBP. I am currently having a few problems and want to do an fresh install from this partition. Is there anyway to get the DMG image bootable?
I hold down the option key whilst restarting and it sees the partition but it won't boot. I even tried a restore from disk utility; still nothing.
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Apr 28, 2012
I 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
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Jun 9, 2012
So my mom comes into town and I offer to update her OS to Lion.
I go to have a look and her main internal HD is marked as the time machine backup?
How is this possiable and how do I change this? Lion won't let me install as "this disk is used or time machine backups"Â
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Jun 19, 2012
Unable to burn disk a internal error occurred?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Mar 20, 2012
I have a G5 with two hard drives and would like to store photos and music on the second hard drive, accessible to the G5, my MacBook Pro, and Apple TV. I do have a system installed on it to boot from if necessary, but for the most part it's just a second internal data drive. I thought it would be best to put the files on it here:Â
/Users/Shared/Music
/Users/Shared/PicturesÂ
I'm finding that I can't just move and rename any photo from either computer, but sometimes there are permission restrictions, even though the Get Info window shows permissions on the files and folders are wide open. What's the best location for fully shared files? The root level of the second drive?Â
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Dual G5, Mac OS X (10.5.8), MacBook Pro (10.6.8)
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Feb 16, 2012
My startup HD always appeared in desktop.But since I formatted it and installed Leopard again it doesn't mount automatically in desktop.How do I do to mount it in desktop?
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 4 GB RAM
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Apr 23, 2012
My MAC PRO has been running very well but recently, it has slowed down hugely at startup. Here is the Console log:Â
23/04/2012 09:37:46com.apple.launchd[1]*** launchd[1] has started up. ***23/04/2012 09:37:57com.paceap.pacesupport[64]com.paceap.kext.pacesupport.snowleopard failed to load - (libkern/kext) link error; check the system/kernel logs for errors or try kextutil(8).23/04/2012 09:37:57com.apple.launchd[1](com.paceap.pacesupport[64]) Exited with exit code: 7123/04/2012
[code]....
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Feb 6, 2012
my iMac wont start up following and updates,I think its a late 2010 model.. I left it on for hours - still no joy it just got hot. I have Disk-warrior but i cant put a disc in.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.6)
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May 13, 2012
my startup on my mac takes about 3 minutes, can you tell me how to make it faster
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Jun 2, 2012
I would like to have a start-up DVD of the latest/last version of Snow Leopard, and I understand that I can purchase a Snow Leopard DVD from the Apple store. Is it the latest ie 10.6.8, or the original.Â
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Jun 27, 2012
I see a lot of people suggesting that perhaps because the poster had less than 10gb (which is my case as well-- I have around 8), that this is why this message is happening. Well, my response to that is:
1)I have had around 8gb free for months, and these messages only started appearing in the last week. Each time I go "???" and look at my finder to see 8.4gb free or whatever, and I am like "WHY ARE YOU TELLING ME I AM OUT OF SPACE?
2)in the terminal, I was trying to download a few 20-30mb files, and wget quit out on me saying "insufficient storage space left on device".and doing "df -h" shows me that I have almost 10% free.. and again this is a 20-30mb, so this is total nonsense.
Are there any suggestions as to what might be causing this and a course of action, other than being told: "copy your files to an external hard drive and delete them on your startup disk".
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Oct 30, 2010
The problem is, each time I restart my computer or put it back on again, it takes around 20 mins to start up. At the grey screen there is a grey bar that takes 20 mins to load.
Should I reinstall snow leopard?
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Sep 14, 2009
I am running Snow Leopard on a new Power Mac which is part of a windows network. On the Windows server, there are a couple of shares that I would like the mac to use. I can manually connect to them and browse ok, but what I would really like to do is have them automatically load on startup and display on the desktop. I have tried connecting to the them and then dragging them into the login items, but on restart, they don't appear on the desktop.
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Mar 24, 2012
I've got a Late 2009 Mac Mini running Snow Leopard Server. Occasionally, it takes me awhile to restart after updates, so this could be due to the most recent update or possibly the combination of the last two...
I went into my office, saw that there was a Safari update and decided to let it do its thing. When I came back 30 minutes later, my machine was off. I turned my machine back on, got the gray Apple screen with the spinning cog and the progress indicator for the update. A little over 10% through, the progress indicator reset. No biggie, I figured. Second time it got to the same point, it just shut down. Nada. When I restart, it does the same thing.
Info:Mac mini (Late 2009), Mac OS X (10.6.8), Snow Leopard Server
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Mar 30, 2012
2QuadCOre 2x3,2 GHZ , 10.6.8 MAc Pro -very annoying issue.Starting normally I cannot pass grey screen of death . The only way to pass this point is to force restart with alt key pressed - and then click on my startup drive ( i have several drives with OSX ) I have been runninmg disk utility / repairing priviliges etc . Obviosly my system drive is chosen and locked in system preferences.  Â
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8), MacPro 6 Core, 24 Gig RAM 10.6.4, Imac 24 inch 10.5.6
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Apr 14, 2012
I've had my Macbook for a couple years. I'm not someone who downloads a ton of stuff, but I suspect that my sluggish performance is due to the many startup items I have.Using iBoost, I've identified many, and know where they are, but I don't know which ones are necessary. [code]
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 16, 2012
My dock won't reappear. I've gone to Terminal and typed killall Dock, and it says there is no process called that. So after literally two days of troubleshooting, I found the Dock.app file, and when I click it, the dock opens, my wallpaper (which was permanently blue) comes back, everything is fine. Until I quit. Then the Dock is missing again. So the Dock obviously isn't launching upon startup or login.
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MacBook2,1, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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Apr 24, 2012
I have a third party app that opens at startup. How do I disable?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
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May 7, 2012
All I get is gray screen in start up.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
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May 14, 2012
Had to force quit a number of applications to shut down computer, restarted it but froze on opening. Shut down with the power button and now it won't get past Gray screen with rotating dial (thingy)...tried the safe boot option but this seemed to get stuck after identifying some issues.
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MacBook (13-inch Late 2009)
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May 24, 2012
How do I remove files from my startup disk?
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.7)
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May 25, 2012
I click on the hd hard drive and change the settings to no one can read or write now I had problem to open the computer as soon I start it became gray screen so I re-stall the software and as soon I back up the computer is asking me the password I type it and can't enter after keep asking me the password is wrong
Info:iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
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