I want to restore my Mac BookAir to bran new

i would really like to erase it all and start again... what must i do...

First, if you want to save anything on your hard drive, back it up, as otherwise everything will be erased.
You want to use the software reinstall drive that came with your system. Attach the drive and boot holding the alt/option key, choose the OS X drive to boot from. Then follow directions here and here to do an erase and install.

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Try using your computer password. I tried any password I could think of relating to my phones, but it was none of them; it was, in fact, my computer password.

Getting out of disk utility when you want to restore your Mac???

I wanted to restore my Macbook Pro early 2011, so I shut down my computer then turned it on and held down option. I got to the disk utility app but now I'm having second thoughts about restoring it. I can't get out of disk utility and get back to my homescreen... Any help? It's been irritating me a lot.

If you've erased everything, then you need to reinstall OS X:
Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
because it is three times faster than wireless.

Want to restore Apple - Mac OS X icon to Dock

I accidentally dragged the Apple - OS X icon off the dock, so it went poof and disappeared. In order to put it back, I assume I just drag something to the dock, but I don't know where to find that item. How do I put it back? This is the thing that looks like an @ on top of a spring, on the right side of the divider. Thanks!

Hi Chris,
All you have to do is go to the website and then highlight the url in the address bar and drag it down to the dock and your link will reappear.
Not sure what page it linked to though - I assume this one:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
If not, maybe somebody can correct me.

I don't want to restore photos from icloud onto my new iphone

Hi there,
I had an iPhone 4 and just got a new 5c. I backed up my 4 to icloud as i dont't own a laptop. I bought 20GB of storage and everything seemed to work. When I set up new iPhone i selected 'Restore from iCloud Back up' as I need old contacts on this new phone HOWEVER, I do not want all photos on new phone as I donot have enough space and they will fill up my memory. They are already in my iCloud so I shouldn't need them on new phone. I didn't see any option to just restore data rather than media and so photo stream is downloading constantly but wont finish as there is not enough space on phone. How can I just restore contacts to new phone and not pictures? My other option could be to set up as new iphone, but if I do this can I then download the contacts from my icloud seperately?
Going slowly insane.

You can't restore only part of the backup. Only camera roll photos are stored in the backup and they will have to be restored as part of restoring the entire backup. Photo stream photos are not stored in the backup; photo stream photos from the last 30 days will stream to your new phone when it signs into your iCloud account. You can stop this by turning off my photo stream in Settings>iCloud>Photos.
The other thing you should be aware of is that you can't have photos in iCloud that are not also on your phone. If you delete them from your phone, they will be deleted from iCloud.

Restore the mac book air to new OS

Hi, how can I formate and restore the macbook air to new lion OS

Hello,
I suppose you already bought your Lion update from the Apple App store and don't just want to "upgrade" your system but want a clean format.
Fortunately, there is a very nice App to do everything you require. It will scan your hard drive for the Lion or Mountain Lion Install and then create a .dmg file and write it into a USB or External drive (you will need one with at least 8gb). You will find this here: http://blog.gete.net/lion-diskmaker-us/
You can then do a clean install by rebooting the computer with the Option key pressed you will then see two big icons, one for your hard drive and another for the USB/External drive. Click the second one and you will get into the install process. You can at this point, before doing the install, reformat your SSD using the Disk Utility Application.
Hope this helps,
Yona

I want to restore to 2013 on mac 10.5.8

My system has somehow lost all information and i want to restore my MAC 10.5.8 to 2013 how do I do this without the original start up disc

There is a lot of confusion here as to what you really want.
No 2013 Mac can run 10.5.8.
Niel's advice about 10.6.8 should not ever be mentioned for any PowerMac, if that's what you have, since PowerMacs won't run 10.6.8. The latest they will run is 10.5.8, although the Intel Macs could run 10.5.8 if they are older than August 28, 2009.
PowerMacs were last on the scene in early 2006.
10.5.8 was last new before August 28, 2009.
10.8.5, if you switched the numbers was the operating system from September 12, 2013.
Use this tip to identify your Mac:
http://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6413
Only Macs older than July 20, 2011 came with pre bundled discs (the exception is Macs whose model was not refreshed until later, such as the October 24, 2011 MacBook Pro). Others require an internet restore.
Note: Classic refers to the virtualized operating system for PowerMacs available under Mac OS 10.4.11 or earlier for Mac OS 9 from 2001 or earlier.

How to restore the mac

hi there,
i have a mac book pro which i bought in the middle of 2011, and my current mac sofetwear is "mac os x version 10.6.8",
i wanted to upgrade the sofewear to 10.8, which i just bought from app atore(australia) for $20.99, but when i installing the softwear at step "choose the disk for install", i found that i cannot choose any one of my disk, it says"No user GUID available"
just wanna ask can i just restore my mac and install the new version of 10.8?(i already copy all the important data to my hard drive cz when i use time machine to back up the mac,it also says that no disk is avaiable)
and if i need to restore the mac how can i do it?
and do i need to buy agian the 10.8 softwear from app store if i restore my mac?
looking forward to your reply
thank you very much:)
regards
angie

You have a older Mac that was upgraded to 10.6.8 without a GUID partition table it sounds like.
Anyway, take your machine to a local PC/Mac tech and have them reccomend a course of action, make backups of your data and do the upgrade, provided your machine is capable of it.
You need more RAM, at least 4GB or more and a 64 bit processor really for the latest operating system, and some Mac's 10.8 can't be installed on.
It's all rather complicated and best for you to have a professioanl do it and if the machine is earlier than Early 2011, you might want to consider sticking with 10.6.8, 2010 models are iffy and won't have all the hardare features with the new OS X version.
According to all the reports I've been scouring, it seems 2011 machines and later have little problems upgrading to 10.8, it's all the earlier ones that are having issues and if your out of AppleCare, if the firmware breaks the machine, it's a out of pocket expense for a new logicboard or your looking at a total loss.
I had OS X 10.7 brick a perfectly working older machine, you don't hear the people complaining too much about that because they can't.

I want to restore my new macbook pro to factory settings

I just bought a new 13 inch Macbook pro mid 2012 it shipped with Lion so I updated to Mountain Lion but like two weeks later it started to run slow, I want to restore my Mac to factory settings. I have been searching how to do it but everyone say that i need a cd but I dont have any cd.

turn your computer on while holding down the command + r keys - release the keys once you see the apple logo and once you get to the disk utility menu - erase your macbook and reinstall your OS - i think because you upgraded to Mountain Lion - your recovery partition will also be Mountain Lion - try doing a clean install of ML and see if the issues you're having are gone when you do a clean install.
if you're still not happy with the way Mountain Lion performs in your macbook, then you have to do a Internet Recovery to get Lion reinstalled.
good luck

Will all the partitions be deleted if I restore my mac

I bought my Macbook Pro preinstalled with Lion (10.7). I've later uograded to 10.8. Now due to some problems I want to restore my Mac using the recovery tool. But before that I've partitioned my hard disk and copied my files to these partitions. If I restore my Mac will the files on all these partitions be deleted or just the files in the partition in which OS X exists are deleted? Moreover after partition will I be left with 10.8 or 10.7?

No, nothing will be deleted except the partition you install on.
EDIT: But never do anything w/o a backup.

HT4946 i got my new iPhone 5 and i connected it to my iTunes on mac and it ask me if i want to setup as new iPhone or restore backup and i restore back up but now i want to delete backup and set up as new iPhone, is the anyhow?

i got my new iPhone 5 and i connected it to my iTunes on mac and it ask me if i want to setup as new iPhone or restore backup and i restore back up but now i want to delete backup and set up as new iPhone, is the anyhow?

The iCloud backup includes most things except non-iTunes purchased but the iTunes backup does not include those either. For what iCloud includes see:
iCloud: iCloud storage and backup overview

TS4036 I upgraded to an Iphone 5 and open new Icloud account, I then backed up my phone on my brothers Mac Pro, I now want to restore my info to my phone and I get a message that says not enough space. What do I do

I upgraded to an Iphone 5 and open new Icloud account, I then backed up my phone on my brothers Mac Pro, I now want to restore my info to my phone and I get a message that says not enough space. What do I do

Delete all back ups on MacBook and create new back up. Restart his MB and attempt to restore again. Do not forget to erase your iphone 5 before restore.

I want to restore my phone by connecting my Iphone4 to iTunes in Mac but it doesn't show phone device. What should i do now??????

I have problem when I updated iOS7 yesterday. At first, there was a message popped out in my Iphone 4 said "iOS7 available for u to update, then i clicked "update", then it said "wait while it verifying", after that my phone tuned blank and what i saw was only the "logo of apple". Until now i see only that Apple logo, i can't either switch my phone on or off.
My iTunes in Mac is just updated to version 11.1
I want to restore my phone by connecting my Iphone4 to iTunes in Mac but it doesn't show phone device.
I don't know why it doesnt connect to pc(Mac pro).
Any solution?

You need to restart the phone in DFU mode and update the software.
To restart the phone in DFU mode press the power and home button simultaneously for like 10 seconds once the phone is switched off release the power button keep holding the home button while you connect to the computer which has Itunes running and then you can restore or update the software, you can download the update and connect after the software has been downloaded if your phone disconnects, And enjoy you new IOS7.

Hi.at first sorry for my bad english language.i have mac book pro with two os(win7 and mac10.9.3)when i want to restore my iPad air in mac os iTunes error 17 but in win7 easily restore!why?

hi.at first sorry for my bad english language.i have mac book pro with two os(win7 and mac10.9.3)when i want to restore my iPad air in mac os iTunes error 17 but in win7 easily restore!why?

Hi there saharalirezaie,
You may find the troubleshooting steps in the article below helpful.
Resolve specific iTunes update and restore errors
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts3694
Resolve communication issues
Related errors: 17, 1004, 1013, 1638, 3014, 3194, 3000, 3002, 3004, 3013, 3014, 3015, 3194, or 3200. These alerts refer to gs.apple.com, say "There was a problem downloading the software," or say the "device isn't eligible for the requested build."
Check the hosts file or TCP/IP filtering, which might cause communication issues between iTunes, ports, and servers.
-Griff W.

Is bad if i reset like 4 or 5 times my mac mini? Happen i just want to restore the lion but when i reset the mac me press always wrong in the keyboard

I want to restore the program lion of my mac mini coz i want ti give my friend this. So i cheack the manual and say reset the computer and pres comado + R and i do that but me do wrong. Me no press good so i reset again. And i try again and finally me restore the lion but i just scared if the mac mini can will have some problem? Or be come slow? Can be? Was just like 4 or 5 huhu pleasee

If by reset you mean pressing any key combos, I'm quite certain.
But if you men something elselike Powering down, then possibly.

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