I needed to install one of my drivers back into my Macbook Air but I cant find my OSX Disc the Disc 1. Can I just go and buy a new Leopard OS X and do a whole new install. Would this bring back all the original drivers back in my Book? Or do I need to contact apple and ask to send my restore disc to me?
View 7 RepliesHow long should I be stuck on the screen "calculating space required to restore data"? I've been on this screen for about 20, 30 minutes. The "hash mark wheel" is spinning, but just not seeing anything new. Is this normal? My backed up data is ~100 GB.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI have an external hard drive which shows all time machine backups but I cannot restore to an earlier time, restore button blanked out.
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iMac (21.5-inch Mid 2011)
So here's my question:I've owned my share of MacBook Pro's, so I'm somewhat familiar, but not an expert. I got my mini last Friday from cowboom (a Best Buy affiliate), and since it's a pre-owned, it only came with the power cable and HDMI to DV-I adapeter. For those that ordered these, a majority of the people posted that it did not come with an OS, but the Internet Restore option fixed the trick. So I powered it on and got the flashing folder with the question mark. No OS. I did the Internet recovery and ran it through all the way to the the reinstall Lion screen. When asking what drive to install it on, there were no drives. I closed the installer and ran the disk utility and the only available drive was some basic drive that had a capacity less than 2GB. No other drives. I booted from my Lion that's on USB, but there's no drive to install it on. Any suggestions? I checked the warranty and the warranty cannot be verified. Some buyers said they had warranty from 8 months and up. One said his warranty showed starting from the day he restored his mac. I'm guessing because it was never registered I made an appointment tomorrow to take it to apple but is there something that can help avoid the trip?
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Mac mini
the operating system could not work fan is running and desktop show but get not any function i want restor my operating system.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI was just curious does restoring from TM with system slowdowns? Or is restoring from TM just bring all those slowdowns back onto your drive?
View 1 Replies View RelatedI'm selling my Macbook Pro and I want to know how to completely wipe out the hard drive. I bought the Lion on the app store so I don't have the internet to re-install it.
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MacBook
Pro, Mac OS X (10.7)
I have the Intel X-25 M G2 160GB and if for some reason I have to restore my comp with this SSD in it. How do I ensure that everything is erased and my SSD is not "dirty". Like brought back to a 100% state. Do I do Zero Out data?
View 15 Replies View RelatedI am in the process of selling my old MBP and would like to wipe it clean before it exchanges hands. I dont have the restore discs though, is there a way to restore it to its factory settings/features if i dont have the disc?
View 1 Replies View RelatedThe 10.5.4 update appears to have killed my MBA. On boot I either get a grey box in the middle of the screen in four languages telling me I need to restart my computer, or I get a blank pale blue screen. I left it on the pale blue screen overnight but it never moved on from there...
Have everything backed up on Time Capsule, but I'm new to Macs, so can you advise on next steps, how I would go about getting my MBA to a state where I can restore from backup, etc?
Pointers to apple support sites welcome but I'm on my iPhone so searching isn't great.
For some weird reason, after I connected my WD MyBook to Windows, I cannot access it in Mac. It says that I don't have the permissions needed, and I cannot repair permissions or change my access level.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI recently purchased Adobe Master Suite and installed it to my MBP. I found that this was a mistake cause it cluttered my brand new MBP. So I uninstalled it and realized how cluttered my MBP is already. I was wondering is there away that I can clear everything and re-install the OS without slowing down the Mac in any way?
View 9 Replies View RelatedI have an 09' MacBook Pro and have upgraded the OS along the way. Now I bought a new computer and want to restore it and give it to the kids. Can I restore it with the factory disc without losing the upgraded OS? I upgraded with a family pack with my brother so I don't have the upgrade disc, he does. Thoughts?
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I have a older Macbook pro with the intel core 2 dual that i got from a friend that pased away no one knows the admin password and there is no disc's for it how do i restore the mac without the original disc's
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
My Mac is acting up I'm sure do to me trying to "clean" up for space. Is there any kind of backup or restore options available on Mac?
View 6 Replies View RelatedRecently I got a MacBook Air. The system is Lion. Somewhere in the manual they said I need to have Internet access should my system ever fail in order to restore it. More often than not, my connection is horrendous. Is there any alternative way? System is ok right now but I want to make sure I know my way around.
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MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
My macbookpro was recently serviced by apple care and they updated the operating system and now I am being asked to start over from scratch but it says there isn't enough space to backup from my time machine
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
How to do system restore on MacBook Pro?
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MacBook Pro
I have a 2010 MBP (OX10.7), and just ordered one of the newly released MB Retina. I will get it sometime in July. All my regular files and settings are both on an external and on sugarsync. If I just needed to restore those to the new MB- it would be no big deal.
Besides the everyday use of a MBP, I am a analytics professional. So, on my MBP, I have lots of programs (usual and unusual), a Mysql database, a Windows 7 partitiion (via parallels) with Office for Win, a few other analytics programs like R, datamining and some of their extensions and GUI interfaces, apple scripts, etc.
It is these that take hours to reinstall and get back to normal.
When I get the new MB Retina can I restore/transfer those as well? Are there any downsides to doing this? Do I use migration assitant? Something better?
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MacBook Pro with Retina display, Mac OS X (10.7.4)
None of my apps want to open and i am thinking of restoring it. should i?
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.7.2)
I mistakenly erased my external hard drive while attempting to reinstall my OS. Everything should have been backed up to iCloud, but I do not know how to restore it to my laptop.
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MacBook Pro (15-inch Late 2011), Mac OS X (10.7.4)
I have restored my computer and everything is clear. But it will not install OS X mavericks it says I have to start Unfortunately, because of the internet. But I have full internet what should I do?
View 3 Replies View RelatedI'd like to change my HD with a 250 SSD but, before I buy it, I want to be sure that I can restore my backup, which actually is on a NAS (Network Attached Storage), to the brand new SSD.
I read that I shouldn't have any problems but I want to be more than 100% sure since I don't want to waste money Do I need to have already installed on the new hard drive the same OS version of the backup, or I could simply restore to the raw ssd?
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MacBook, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1)
I'm running OSX 10.6.8 on an old 2007 Macbook. I replaced the HD on the computer a year or two ago (I rarely ever use the computer) and I must have reformatted the drive to exclude the Recovery HD. Now I want to restore my Macbook to factory defaults (delete and wipe everything) and I can't because there is no Recovery Mode to boot into.
Nothing happens when I hold Command+r on reboot, and when I hold Option on reboot I only see my Mac HD, which confirms that the Recovery HD does not exist. What else can I do to restore my Macbook? I tried to download and install the Recovery drive that boots off of a flash drive, but it requires OSX 10.7. Do I need to upgrade my OS and then boot from a flash drive? Is there really no other way to just DELETE everything?
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MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8), 2007 Black Maccbook
I used to have a mac mini on snow leopard and did a Time machine backup. Now I just picked up a macbook pro on leopard and would like to know whether the snow leopard back up will work on this.
I have not got the snow leopard disk anymore, but im sure I can get it, was just wondering if I even needed to.
A friend did something that changed the display on my Macbook Pro. The background is weird and distorted and seems to be out of focus. I want to restore factory settings but without the trouble of reinstalling all of the programs. Can it be done and if so, how? I will watch for a reply.
View 1 Replies View RelatedI am upgrading my RAM from 512 MB to the Max limit 2 GB. After I add the two 1GB RAMs and put the MacbookPro back together will I have to do some kind of reboot restore, or something like a hard drive backup restore, before it will all work? Or do you just replace the RAM cards and start it up and it works fine?
View 2 Replies View RelatedI just got a new Macbook Pro and would like to transfer accounts/data from my old machine that was backed up using Time Machine. On the initial boot, I chose to transfer over my entire account and did not check off the options for applications or files and folders. Right now it appears that its transferring everything, including documents which is what I want.
My question is I am assuming it will transfer over my applications too (they reside in the Applications folder under my account, right?) Will all the applications transfer over and if so, will they be accessible by all accounts or will I have to do it over? If I screw up will I be able to try another restore from the same backup or will it be overwritten?
I had a late 2007 MacBook Pro which I sold, and now I have a Late 2008 MacBook Pro being shipped to me. Before I shipped my old one off, I made sure to backup with Time Machine. Will I run into problems if I just pop the Leopard disk into my new MacBook Pro and restore from the Time Machine backup? If so, what are my options? I neglected to make a Carbon Copy Cloner backup from which I could use the migration assistant...
View 10 Replies View RelatedAbout 2 weeks ago I discovered that for some reason neither my Iphone or Ipod Touch would show up on iTunes when I connected it. Initially I thought it was an iTunes error but then quickly realized that neither a USB drive nor my 500GB HDD would recognize as well. Well, I thought that it might have been a software error so I proceeded to do a reinstall, everything was backed up on my Time Capsule so I had nothing to worry about. But guess what? My MBA wouldn't even recognize the SuperDrive. I tried to do a network reinstall but for some reason it would always just HANG upon trying to wirelessly connect to a remote PC for reinstallation.
So basically right now I don't know what to do. All my files are backed up on Time Capsule which is good. Although I can't wipe the MBA or do a reinstall because I can't access the reinstallation CD. I have sensitive sources files on my macbook air related to work that I'm uncomfortable just handing over to the genius bar. Any suggestions on what I should do? Any alternatives on how I might do a reinstall and then be able to bring it in to the genius bar to get this USB fixed. This single USB Hub is the Achilles heel of the MBA, I am now 100% assured of that. Also SPECS: MBA 128SSD RevB.
