Our macbook woke up with a blinking hard drive. I went to boot up with a CD and run Disk Utility, and used the install disk that came with our Mac Mini.
Instead, it says I can't install on that mac, and all options are disabled.
I didn't expect to be able to install from that disk, but why can't I even use disk utility?
Obvious answer to obvious question - I can't find the Leopard disk I used with the macbook.
I have a very old E Mac running version OS X version 10.1.5. My Mac is showing a flashing question mark so I have tried to repair it using the Install Disk provided with my E Mac. Unfortunately, when I insert my Mac OS X Install disk (which is for version 10.1.4) and press the C key at startup and click on Disk Utility the "Repair Disk" button is greyed out (although I am able to Verify the Disk.) How do I get round this problem? (I should add that I have had the flashing question mark once before, and I was able to repair my E Mac on that occasion as I was able at that time to click on the "Repair Disk" button. However, I can no longer do this.)
I have also tried using my OS 9 Install Disk, as I was using OS 9 the last time before the flashing question mark appeared. When I go into Disk Utility using that disk, I am able to click on the "Repair Disk" button but it lists errors that it says it is unable to repair.
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eMac, Mac OS X (10.1.x)
The problem is with a mbp running Snow Leopard. I created a dual boot with win 7. I was playing around with the partitions, and at one point installed SL on both partitions, sure i did some other bone head moves that i can't remember. Now cannot remove the second partition. I think i may need a boot disk with a application to partition the HD from the disk?
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I've been using OSX since OSX.1 and I have yet to run into a time where Disk Utility did not come up with False Positives. In latest version Yosemite, all Print Driver components from all supported manufacturers that are part of Yosemite, show up as false positives. I haven't counted but seems close to 100 +files.
What I would like to know is. Why is it so tough for the systems developers which mst likely some of the best in the world, Ca not come up with a script that would monitor Disk Utilities for false positives and mark them as invisible after say the third run. This would be reset each time a new Disk Utilities version comes out.
How long has OSX.1 been out 15-20 years? You would think in that period of time this issue would be fixed. I realize as OSX used FreeBSD UNIX that it is a Constantly moving system being updated al most daily. But still you should be able to come up with something to prevent wasting tim repairing items that don't need to be repaired.
I used Mavericks previously a smaller portion of the same Driver files came up as false positives. When I switched to Yosemite the list grew 3 fold.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.1.x), Yosemite OSX.10
I had to force a shutdown as Safari, mouse and Word would not respond. Command+Option+Escape would not work.
Turning on now will only boot into OS X Utilities with options of:
1. Restore
2. Reinstall OSX
3. Get Support Online
4. Disk Utility
1. Trying to restore I found my backup but the next screen lists no hard drive at all??? Can't go on.
2. Can't reinstall OSX Mavericks as when I click on the "Recovery HD" it says, "This disk is locked"
4. Disk Utility says everything is fine
About a week ago I purchased a 2007 Macbook off of Ebay. It arrived in the mail and i opened it only to find out he had not deleted a majority of his content. I looked up how to reset it and I did. It turned back on and displayed a Mac OS X Utilities page. I tried repairing my disk and that didn't work. I tried erasing it & after a couple of times that worked. Except I cannot get past that point. I have no Time Machine back up since I just purchased it. So I decided to try my last option and tried downloading Lion. It had asked for my Apple I.D. and I typed it in and once i clicked continue it said that "iTunes is temporarily unavailable" so I tried it again. Nothing. I even tried my mother's I.D. It still comes up saying that it is temporarily unavailable. I cannot access it. I'm stuck on that Utilities page and cannot access anything.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Server
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MacBook Pro (13-inch Early 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Q1 Have I missed something?
Q2 Otherwise should I try to run Disc Utilities from an earlier version of OSX
How do I launch disk utility from the Snow Leo install disk?
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and, how do i apply updates to it?
