OS X V10.7 Lion :: How To Reformat The System
Mar 31, 2012How to reformat the system
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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OS X :: How Can I Reformat My MBP? - Way To Get Another Disk For My System?
May 20, 2010I want to reformat my 2.33gh MBP. The problem i have is i dont have the original install discs that came with the computer. I am currently running snow leopard, which i installed with an upgrade disk. I borrowed a snow leopard disk from a friend who got a new imac recently and when i try boot from the disk to reformat it just says i cant install the software on my computer
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Nov 19, 2010Mine's not a mac, but just a normal lenovo laptop anyway, somehow its so messed up and i want to reformat the whole system, how do i do that?
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Dec 17, 2010Just bought a new iMAC 27 and I want to sell my MBP 17". I want to wipe the HD clean so the new owner doesn't get any of my stuff. Can I do it with the SL discs that came with my new iMAC because when I bought the MBP, it came with no discs. Or is there a quick way to remove all personal information? (like delete the admin account a create a new one)
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Oct 29, 2007just bought a used ibook. old owner's ID is still there... don't have his password. but i do have the system disks. can't i reinstall a clean system and make an identity for myslef?
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Apr 28, 2010I just got my new MBP finally! I'm just in the process of calibrating the battery (first initial charge). When its charged and I can turn it on, would you recommend reformatting the drive and freshly installing OSX? If so, would anyone be kind enough to be able to point me in the direction of useful instructions? (I have an idea, but dont want to mess it up).
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Feb 26, 2008I have a Dual 2.7 GHz PowerPC G5, 1.5 GB ram OSX 10.4.11, And My Main goal is to Create a recordable Drive for my pro tools to save sessions on.I asked Digi Design how to do This, and they told me to Reformat my Fat32 to MAC-OS extended. It is Read/write capable currently... But everytime I try and Change the Format using Disk utility it says, Could not unmount disk. How else can i reformat my External hardrive?
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Aug 27, 2014I have an early 2008 iMac which I am about to sell and replace with a newer version. I regularly use Time Machine to do back ups. What's the best way to reformat my old machine before I sell and also restore all my files onto the new iMac?
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IMac, Macbook Pro
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Upgraded To Lion By Download And Need To Reformat Hard Drive?
Mar 12, 2012I upgraded to Lion by download and I need to reformat my hard drive. How can I reinstall Lion without a disk? I have a Time Machine backup of my hard drive on an external drive.
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PowerBook G4, Mac OS X (10.4.1)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Reformat A Drive And Reinstall It?
Feb 17, 2012I need to reformat a drive and reinstall the OS. I and using Avid Media Composer and it is not qualified on 10.7.3. How can I install 10.7.2 of a new drive?Â
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Mac Pro (Mid 2010), Mac OS X (10.7.2)
MacBook Pro :: Reformat HDD And Reinstall Lion?
Apr 7, 2012How do I reformat my HD and reinstall Mac OSX Lion? I somehow corrupted username.sparsebundle in FileVault and therefore can't log in. I need to reformat the HD and reinstall the latest OS. (I do not want to use FileVault going forward.)
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: How To Reformat An External Hard Disk
May 11, 2012How do I reformat a USB external drive with two partitions one of which is corrupted.
Disk Utility will not work because the faulty partition prevents unmounting of the disk.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Macbook Air bought August 2011
IMac PPC :: Upgrade And Reformat It From Leopard To Lion?
May 28, 2012i have an iMac on 10.5.? something.. and i want to get it back to factory setting and upgrade it to lion, as im half way to selling it to a friend. It needs reformatting asap really as he already managed to get that flash trojan on in within his first 2 days of having it, and its already had some mileage that could do with being reset anyway. i also what what i wanted to know how to upgrade to lion without having to get snow leopard as well. i know i need to install some more ram which im in the process of getting from Crucial.com. i just need to know about how to bypass snow leopard.
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Jun 10, 2012How do I reformat my hard disk to get rid of a virus and reinstall lion on my macbook pro ..??
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4), I bought a usb stick with the OS X
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Cannot Turn Off Encryption And Reformat Disk
Jun 19, 2012OS-X Lion I now have two useless FW800 external disk drives because I cannot turn off encryption and reformat the disk. (30 years ago, in DOS, this was called a "low level format".) I think I need to use Terminal commands diskutil eraseDisk or diskutil partitionDisk but nether of those commands work. Apparently, I cannot format the command correctly or diskutil cannot remove an encrypted partition.
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Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X Mountain Lion :: Reformat Hard Disk Drive To Be Compatible With Time Machine?
Jun 5, 2014I have a question which I am quite unsure. I am shopping for a HDD drive (Western Digital My Book 3 TB) and was told that it cannot be reformatted to be compatible with TIme Machine.
I would like to verify if it is true.
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.3)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Reformat MacBook Air From Mac Extended To Mac Extended (Journaled) So It Will Boot / Reinstall It?
Jul 5, 2012How do I reformat a MacBook Air from Mac OS Extended to Mac OS Extended (Journaled) so it will boot / reinstall Lion?Â
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X V10.7 Lion :: Sharing System Preferences Freezes Entire System
Jul 3, 2012I recently took the plunge and installed Lion after being content with Snow Leopard....well now I have quite a few issues. When I open system preferences for some reason it automatically opens to Network...why I'm not sure. When I click show all, then click sharing, I can't make any changes in the Sharing preferences without my entire system locking up. I can't force quit or anything. I can still use the mouse but all I have is the rainbow wheel!
I have searched and searched and haven't been able to fix it. I have tried booting into the Guest account and the same problem happens there. I have trashed all the plist files everyone says to try. I have tried repairing permissions etc. I feel like I have tried everything. Is there anything else that I can do without have to do a clean re-install. I'm hearing if I do this that I won't be able to migrate my files from by backups due to permission problems?
I also took a look at my system log and it is full of this!
Jul 3 22:24:26 jessica-imac com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.Kerberos.digest-service[1307]): Exited with code: 1
Jul 3 22:24:26 jessica-imac com.apple.launchd[1] (com.apple.Kerberos.digest-service): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds .....
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Mac OS X (10.7.4)
OS X :: Best Way To Reformat My MacBook Pro?
May 23, 2007What is the best way to ReFormat my MacBook Pro ?
I currently have 60 GB of Apps and other stuff, and want to do a clean install of my entire harddrive....
can i just move all my apps over to an external harddrive and then put them back on after my re install ?
Will i have to re type in all the serials for photoshop and dreamweaver, etc....?
OS X :: Reformat To Zero Data?
Dec 16, 2008so im looking to buy the unibody macbook...but going to sell this one i ahve now thru craigslist. i have an install disc for leopard if i put that in and do a clean install will this take EVERYTHING off my harddrive...i dont want any sort of personal data to be left on te machine.
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Jul 14, 2009I have a Mac g4 MDD that I am selling and I need to reformat so I can sell, any ideas on how to do this? I didnt see any other thread so I thought this thread would be good for 2 reasons
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Sep 21, 2010I recently purchased a 2nd hand g5 from a friend. When he bought it around it was not formated. The software update i have is 10.5.8, I have purchased a copy of snow leopard (box set with ilife and iwork on it too), Now i tried installing snow leopard and it wouldnt let me "My mac is not intel based" i tried the other installing via the other options, i need to have 10.6 or greater. my question is how do i get 10.6 on mac or how do i reformat the g5, its driving me crazy
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Sep 25, 2010Will a fresh install of 10.6 benefit me? i haven't formatted since 10.6 came out
machine in question. 2.2 santa rosa whitebook 4 gigs of ram and a 320 5400rpm drive.
or should i pull the trigger on an SSD?
MacBook Pro :: Had To Reformat MBP After 6 Months?
Oct 16, 2010I was let down when I found that I had to reformat my MBP 13" after 6 months of use. I also had Bootcamp installed but I found that my MBP would take a long time to boot into OSX and when I did, I had a lot of spinning beach balls. Even my Bootcamp began giving me errors. After using the utilities to find out what the health issues were, I found that my repairs to the hard drive were unsuccessful and I had to reformat.Mind you I had a time machine back up, but I was frustrated that after just six months of owning the MBP I had to reformat. It brought back memories of dealing with Windows. I mean, if I have to do this again in 6 months, I mine as well use Windows since I basically did the same thing then too. (And it was cheaper!)
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Oct 28, 2010How to reformat a memory stick in Mac OSX SL? Because I have a 128MB empty memory stick, yet it says there is only 5.2MB free, and when I try to copy a 17MB file to it, it says it won't fit.
How do I reformat it completely so it fixes?
Windows On Mac :: Need To Reformat Before Bootcamp?
Dec 3, 2010I am trying to bootcamp win7 on my iMac (2010), it's saying there's an error, and that I need to reformat the HDD first, then try to bootcamp. So if I understand it correctly, I need to backup my OSx, then reformat using diskutil? Then partition, and install OSx, then when that is all set, install the windows, right?
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Dec 16, 2010I lost my silly Disk DVD. I have the ones for my iMac, however they don't work. I get the message (you cannot install os x on this computer).
What I want.... this computer is about 2 years old. I want to reformat it to square one. Like brand new. I already backed everything up.
When I called apple, I mentioned I just purchased Snow Leapord.. they said.. no biggy, just install that and it will replace everything back to square one. Well, that didn't work. I still have all my old programs.
OS X :: Cannot Erase And Reformat Drive
Feb 3, 2009I recently tried to install a back-up copy of Leopard onto a USB hard drive, as a precautionary measure if my drive ever did die. I had partitioned my drive into 3. One for the Leopard Boot (Mac OS Extended Journaled), one for Apps (Mac OS Extended Journaled) and one for files (FAT 32).
The installation pooped out on me, probably due to the amount of free space available.
Earlier this week, I decided to reformat the drive into 1 partition. Unfortunately I ran into a spot of bother....
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And when running First Aid - I get this:
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MacBook Pro :: Seems Slower After Reformat?
Aug 22, 2009After reformatting my macbook, it seems to be running considerably slower than the "out of box" condition. For example, before reformatting restarting the system was quick. Now, when i want to restart, i have to wait 30 seconds before it restarts.
What should i do?
OS X :: How Do I Reformat Time Machine
May 7, 2010made a big mistake by trying to delete Time Machine backups with the Trash Can. It was such a big mistake that I have to reformat the Hard Drive for Time Machine. But I'm not much of a computer formatting specialist
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