Software :: How To Erase Leopard From My Imac
Aug 2, 2008how do i completely erase OS X Leopard from my iMac and install Vista Home Premium
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OS X V10.5 Leopard :: 7 Pass Erase Vs 3 Pass Vs Zero Erase
Apr 25, 2012I want to start afresh on my HD, i.e. reinstall from original disks and use Disk Utility to secure erase (via Erase & Install).I've read articles about pros and cons + how to do it. So I think I know how to do everything.However, from my reading I gather that Zero Erase is a single pass random erase whereas 7 Pass is secure erase (and there is a 3 Pass secure erase option nowadays)?That got me wondering - does 7 Pass secure erase make 7 x single passes over the entire disk?If it does, then when the blue bar has extended a bit over a third of the way across the progress monitor (that little bar that indicates time left) it should have made 3 passes, which would be equivalent to 3 pass secure erase?Is that an option?Is it possible to stop part way through an erase (which is part of E & I)? My original disks 1 and 2 have OS X 10.4, with OS X 10.5 included as complimentary 3rd disk (because OS X 10.5 was just released at that time).I gather I need to erase with disk 1, then install disks 1 + 2, then install OS X 10.5.
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MacBookPro3,1, Mac OS X (10.5.8), 15"/ 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo/ 2GB/ 120GB
OS X :: How Can Be Achieved Disck Utility Erase, But Only Erase Free Space Was Highlighted
Jul 27, 2009I bought an imac 2 years ago, and updated it to leopard when that was released.
I no longer have the discs i used for Leopard, only the original mac os x 10.4 discs.I am very soon going to be selling this machine and need to wipe everything so that all is left if the operating system in the form you would expect as if you had just bought a new mac.How can this be achieved, i tried disck utility> erase, but only erase free space was 'highlighted'.
OS X :: Erase And Install Snow Leopard?
Dec 15, 2009I've just installed snow leopard and I wanted to erase everything and do a clean install of snow leopard but I can't find that option.
View 2 Replies View RelatedOS X V10.5 Leopard :: Erase Tiger To Install It?
Mar 19, 2012Do I need to ERASE my main hard drive of OS X 10.4.11 Tiger, to install OS X 10.5 Leopard?
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Power Mac G4 (QuickSilver 2002) Dual, Mac OS X (10.4.11), I also use MacOS 9.2.2
OS X V10.5 Leopard :: How To Erase And Install New Version Os Mac
Jun 18, 2012how to erase and install new copy of Mac OS X 10.5.8 ?? IS there a way to do this without CD?? I no longer have the disks and I cant find a way to get this done.. The reason I want to do this is because a 12 year old was using this computer for a long time and there is a lot of junk stuff on the disk, so I want to start from fresh.
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Mac OS X (10.5.8)
OS X :: Installing Leopard - Need To Erase / Restore Disk
Jul 1, 2009Sso something went wrong when I was installing leopard and it said that I had to erase and restore the disk or something like that. Now I know exactly how to do this but what I am wondering is will this completely delete everything on the disk all the applications and such? It has tiger on it right now so after I erase it will tiger be gone so i wont be able to put leopard on? How does this whole erase thing work?
View 5 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Erase And Install - Downgrade Back To Leopard
Oct 22, 2009I want to downgrade back to Leopard and have a question. Does erasing the HD to do an install, also erase the Windoze partition? Or everything but that?
View 3 Replies View RelatedMacBook Pro :: Erase And Install Snow Leopard?
Feb 8, 2012I have a macbook running leopard and am upgrading to snow leopard. I have a back up from leopard on an external hard drive and I would like to completely wipe my computer, start fresh. However, I no longer have the leopard install disc but I do have the old tiger install disc. I am thinking to revert to tiger to restore the computer's settings and then upgrade to snow leopard. Will I still be able to restore select items from my Leopard back up?
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MacBook Pro
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Never Ending Secure Erase
Feb 29, 2012About a week ago I enabled FV1. Overnight, the encryption and deletion of the original folder appeared to complete.However, I now have a never ending 'Secure Erase' process showing up in Activity monitor. By never-ending, I mean its always there, although as far as I can tell the secure erase process finished days ago (and surely, on 54GB home folder, it shouldn't take this long anyway). In any case, Finder shows my disk space as freed already.I'm not experiencing any lag in the system, no increased fan speed or temp; in fact, the only way I know its happening is because it
i. appears in AM and Top
ii. it strips the life out of my battery when I'm not on AC Power.
I've tried re-booting to no effect. I've even tried killing the process but it just restarts itself.In Finder from within Snow Leopard, I see two home folder images. There is one with a home icon that appears to be an alias. 'Get Info' says it has 0MB size. There is another 'no access' folder whose size is indeterminate, as Finder never completes the 'Calculating' process.However, looking at these same two folders from Lion (on another partition), the folder with the home icon shows up as a 54GB sparse bundle. The folder with no access remains inaccessible and of indeterminate size.The issue is not critical. If the worst comes to the worst I can wipe this disk and re-install from a clone, but I'd rather find a better solution, if possible.
OS X V10.5 Leopard :: Icons On Desktop Can't Erase Or Change
May 17, 2012Today I tried to move two applications(safari and calculator) from the Finder to the desktop icon area. When I dragged them I accidentally stopped before I reached to workstation/application area and now both safari.app and Calculator.app are written on my desktop and I can move it, open it, or change it. What should I do to get rid of it?
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iMac, Mac OSX (10.5.7)
MacBook :: Snow Leopard: How To Erase And Install
Jun 1, 2012Can't install the applications dvd, it says an error occured and i have to contact the software manufacturer for this. What will i do to have it installed (i life)?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.4)
MacBook :: Snow Leopard: Erase And Install
Jun 14, 2012I'm trying to erase my hard drive to sell my MacBook and well I used the drop in disk to help with this. I dont have the gray disks that came with my computer. Any who I ran it erase and reinstall the os and at the last second it failed to install. Now when I start my computer with the disk it'll try to down load the os and it says that I don't have an OS X version 10.4 or higher on my computer. So basically I don't have a operating system on my MacBook. It's empty. It is a white 13 inch MacBook.
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MacBook
IMac :: Erase And Reinstall OS X 10.4 - 2nd DVD Not Recognized
Nov 5, 2010Unable to complete OS X 10.4 reinstall, second DVD not recognized.
View 2 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Will Installing OS X Snow Leopard Erase My Hard Drive
Aug 26, 2009When installing Snow Leopard, will it erase my hard drive and force me to start all over or will it just update the software and keep everything the way it is on my Mac now?
View 6 Replies View RelatedPowerPC :: How To Erase Personal Data On IMac G5
Nov 2, 2009I'm in the process of selling my iMac G5 (I'm getting a new iMac). I've got all my personal data backed up onto an external hard drive. The question I have is regarding my G5 - what's the best way of deleting all my personal data on it? Should I reinstall Tiger using the CD that came with the system and do a complete "Erase and Install", or is there a simpler way?
View 1 Replies View RelatedIMac PPC :: Erase My Entry Password To Get On That Computer?
Mar 24, 2012I am giving my iMacG5 to my son. How do I erase my entry password to get on that computer?
Info:iMac G5 (17-inch Ambient Light Sensor), Mac OS X (10.4.11)
OS X V10.5 Leopard :: How To Erase Old Backups To Make More Room On Time Machine
Jun 3, 2012How do I erase old backups o make more room on Time Machine?
View 4 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Disk Utility Now Allowing Me To Erase My Hard Drive - Way To Install Leopard
Aug 15, 20091. To grab all the files I need/don't want to lose (photos, music, documents, etc.)2. Then completely erase the 500GB HD so I can then install it into the new Macbook Pro and install Leopard.(I'll then externally connect the 160GB HD that came w/ my Macbook Pro and add the files I've already copied into that 160GB HD into the 500GB Leopard installed HD in the new Macbook Pro)So, currently my 500GB HD is connected to my Macbook pro and I want to completely erase everything so I'll then have a completely clean hard drive, to then install into the Macbook Pro, add the installation discs and install Leopard into the 500GB HD.
View 14 Replies View RelatedIntel Mac :: Unable To Complete Snow Leopard Installation After Performing HDD Erase
Mar 29, 2012I experienced what I believe was a crash so after various attempts at doing a time machine restore, I performed an erase of the HDD and have been trying to install snow leopard from a disk I bought from the Apple store. I am not sure if the disk is the whole OS X or not as it was purchased to upgrade from the OS X that was on the machine. I am hoping to do a time machine backup to get my old programmes/software back afterwards but in the meantime just cannot seem to get snow leopard on my iMac.
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IMac PPC :: Erase/wipe Clean Old, 2001, Desktop So Can Donate It?
Jul 5, 2012How do I erase/wipe clean my old, 2001, desktop so I can donate it?
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iMac
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Transferring Files From Older IMac To Newer IMac?
May 3, 2012Have a new (for me) iMac and need to transfer all 10.4 files including mail, etc.from an older iMac to my newer one whioch is running 10.6.Â
View 2 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Leopard Imac To Snow Leopard Macbook Error?
Jul 10, 2010I have an imac with leopard OS and a macbook pro with snow leopard on it, and I can't seem to connect the two computers. Even when they are directly connected with ethernet cable, I can see the imac but not connect with it. I can connect to the macbook from the imac, but not vice-versa. My network is ethernet through linksys WRT610 router. Repeated attempts to connect from the macbook result in "connection failed" message and "imac may not exist or is not available."
View 7 Replies View RelatedOS X :: Using MacBook Pro To Install Leopard On IMac -- Won't Boot From Leopard DVD?
Feb 24, 2010I have:
-one iMac with cracked screen -- currently being used via dual monitor setup
-one new MacBook Pro (running Snow Leopard)
-a legitimate, family pack DVD for Leopard
I want to:
-reformat the iMac and install Leopard on the iMac via Target Mode/firewire using the DVD drive on my MBP
However, when I try to boot the MBP from the Leopard DVD, nothing happens.
I know this is kind of a mess, but it's the only viable solution I have been able to come up with. I can't install Leopard on the iMac from the Leopard DVD because I can't see the screen (due to the huge crack on my iMac) and it does not show up on the extra monitor.
Is there a way to safely force the MBP to boot from the Leopard install DVD?
MacBook Pro :: Just Zero Erase New SSD - What To Do Now
Sep 18, 2010I just followed this link here [URL] to install my SSD and I foolishly did the Zero Erase. After searching through macrumors, it seems that I have killed my drive. Is there any form of redemption? Corsair F60 on a brand new MBP 15inch
View 24 Replies View RelatedOS X :: What Happens After Full Erase
Dec 27, 2010I've had my iMac since early 2008 (2.8GHz, 4GB RAM, nice NVidia card) and it has ran great until recently. Things seem slow, and take a bit too long to open. Even worse is that its performance is inconsistent. Sometimes iTunes can take 6-8 seconds to load, and sometime 30 or more. I had concluded that this is due to my hard drive being almost full (320 gigs). However, I erased about 50GB of info, and it still performs about the same.
The bump to Snow Leopard helped a bit, but the performance still isn't near where I'd like it to be. I also just installed 4GB of RAM. So a new idea is to just completely erase everything and start over. I have a time machine backup of all of my info, and I would selectively add old information to the newly formatted drive (things like movies, photos, apps). However I have two problems in doing a full erase (or whatever the technical term is).
What happens to preferences and the such? I have my iPad and iPod touch synced to my iMac and I don't know how that would affect them after I tried to sync them after the erase. Also, if I load all of my photos back into iPhoto, will events and albums need to be reconfigured? What happens to my Windows Vista partition? I have a 30GB partition for Vista, and what would happen to it? Would OS X be smart enough to not touch it?
OS X V10.6 Snow Leopard :: Snow Leopard Install Disk Works In IMac But Not In MacBook Pro?
Mar 31, 2012I have a Snow Leopard Install Disk for the 13-inch Macbook Pro model.I also have a 21-inch iMac. I have OS X Lion installed on both. I have Snow Leopard installed as a partition on my Macbook Pro, which I installed via the install disk. I want to do the same thing for my iMac but I am unable due to (seemingly) my install disk is for a Macbook Pro and not for an iMac.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
Mac Pro :: Erase Raid From HDD (still Using SSD For Boot)?
Nov 28, 2010I have a 2009 MacPro. SSD has the boot and apps from the 2nd Optical Drive. Original 1x4TB drives are in Raid 0 and have all the data (home folder etc). They also have the original OSX and apps which are no longer in use since everything boots off the SSD.
I want to erase the 4 raid drives (disconnect raid all together) (data all backed up to a drobo). Use first 3 drives as new storage and the 4th as bootcamp.
however, when I try to erase the raid data drives, it says it can't unmount the disk (yes, have no apps running other than disk utility from the SSD apps)
Mac :: Erase HD On Mini Computer?
Dec 13, 2010I need help how to erase the HD on a Mac Mini computer.
It is a 2007 Mac Mini with a processor speed of 2 ghz, Intel core 2 duo.
Version; Mac OS 10.5/ up grated to 10.6 Mac OSX Snow Leopard.
MacBook Pro :: How To Erase Everyting?
Dec 29, 2010I need to repair my hard drive but the Disk Utility won't work.
I found out that I can insert the disk it came with and install the OSX and then run disk utility and do the repair.[I think it's called doing a clean install]
So I insert my disk and try and install the OSX and it's telling me I need to erase everything on my computer and then I can install it because there's a newer version on OSX on it.
[My MBP is 2 years old so I think I have Leopard or Snow Leopard]
Is there any way I do it without having to erase everything?
If I do end up having to erase everything would it be possible to put it all on my Seagate, that currently is holding stuff from my PC? How do I do that?
