After software restore, window is very small

I have a G3 ibook i'm trying to do a clean install on so i can sell it. i just did the whole software restore process, then reinstalled OS 10.2 (the discs that came with the computer) and erased the hard drive at the same time. it all seems to have worked alright except that now everything on the screen (the normal Finder screen) is inside a small, maybe 4"x6" window in the center of the monitor and the rest of it is just black. anybody know what this is?

Do you have more than one computer? This is what you see when you install an operating system that is too old for the computer.
The solution is to use the correct CD's to do the restore.

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Hello, all,
Last week I took my iMac in to the Apple Store to have its internal hard drive replaced. After retrieving the computer, I did a restore off of my Time Machine backup. The restore went smoothly...except that I now cannot do iCloud-related things, particularly iTunes.
--When I launch iTunes, I get a series of error dialogues, advising that the computer does not recognize various certificates (an example would be "buy.itunes.apple.com"); each of these errors advise me that my personal information could be at risk.
--The iTunes Store storefront is blank, though in the title bar I do see my account name.
--When I navigate to iCloud in my browser, Safari informs me that it cannot recognize the iCloud certificate.
--Attempting to sync my iPhone via cable connection, iTunes advises me that the computer is not authorized to share applications downloaded by [my iPhone]. Clicking to authorize yields "We could not complete your iTunes Store request" unknown error dialogues. Other parts of the sync do not complete successfully.
--I cannot connect to the Apple App Store.
Other standard internet functions are working correctly.
I attempted to log out and log back in to iCloud, but logging out failed. "Could not log out of your account at this time." Prior to getting that error, the OS asked me if I wanted local copies of my iCloud [contacts, calendars, notes] kept on my computer. I indicated that, no, I didn't want local copies...despite not logging off successfully all my iCloud information is still gone from the computer.
All content is, however, intact on my iPhone. iPhoto appears to be working fine, on brief inspection, and I have successfully downloaded images off of my iPhone (via cable).
Looking for guidance; is there a plist file I should delete, for example?
System information:
--Early 2008 iMac
--OS X 10.8.3
--iTunes 11.0.4
--iTunes library hosted on an external HDD
Thanks for any help you can provide!

OK, I've worked it out with the Apple support team, and it was a real doozie. Don't know if anyone else has ever encountered this, but none of the people I spoke with had ever seen it (level 1 support, level 2 support, plus whoever it would be that advises level 2). It was not the authentication problem.
Somehow or other, the central certificates that are part of the OS that recognize Apple services became invalid, or at least the system THOUGHT they were invalid. With the guidance of Apple support, I examined the system certificates via Keychain Access, identified those that were marked invalid, and set them to "always trust." That still didn't work. We removed variuos plists and configurations, hoping that reboots would cause these files to be recreated new...that didn't work.
No Apple services worked: not iCloud, not iTunes, not App Store, not even the remote access program that Apple support had me download to enable screen sharing. All of them gave some version of "cannot verify the identity of the server [something].apple.com.
In the end I had to wipe everything clean and reinstall again from a Time Machine backup. At the suggestion of Apple support, I did not use the most recent backup, but rather one that predated the initial issue that brought about the HDD replacement; it was about a week old. Except for a couple of files that rolled back to earlier versions, everything now works.
Don't know if this had anything to do with anything, but here are some minor things that I noticed:
(1) My Time Machine backups were all for OS X 10.8.4. The Apple Store team that installed my new HDD installed 10.8.3. The mechanism for importing user accounts from external sources (such as my Time Machine backup) indicated a copy, not necessarily a recovery. I would believe it if you told me that there were changes to security settings between 10.8.3 and 10.8.4
(2) There were two different mechanisms I used in the two different restores. As I mentioned above, when I did my initial restore it may have been just an import of user accounts and applications -- this was part of the first-time launch of the freshly-installed 10.8.3 OS, the part we've probably all seen where we're invited to do just that. The second time, however, was via the Recovery Partition: that tool is much more direct and offers more options. For one, it recognized all of the different versions of my system in my Time Machine backup, and gave me these options with date and OS listed. This option was not available via the first method.
So, given that no one at Apple seemed to know how this happened, it may very well be that no one reading this may ever see this happen to them. But the lesson I've taken from this is to utilize the Recovery Partition rather than the import function.

After System Restore windows programs not loading, and other issues!

To preface this I have no interest in keeping vista on here I have a CD with windows7 setup on it that I would like to install either on a new partition or over the exsisting one but no clue how to do this right, and when I tried booting up from the CD it gave me an error, so I can't do the setup that way, however I did get a version of windows xp (hiren's minixp) to boot from a thumbdrive, however I could not get my wireless internet to work on it. however thru ethernet it did, but need wifi!) I need a computer for tomorrow morning for my new job orientation is done thru a website and I need a computer to use at thehotel (im out of town) so its not an option taking it to a repair shop tomorrow (its sunday and all), or sending back to lenovo plus its outta warranty.
Help! I am very novice at best with techy stuff so I will try to explain this the best that I can. I've had a lenovo N500 Laptop running Vista Home Edition for a couple years now. It did not come with any recover cd's or anything like that. It was starting to run slow, so I figured I'd do the old trusty Factory Restore and start fresh, always did the trick on other computers I owned with windows. Well I went through the whole process of restoring it, and did the initial system setup and naming. When it loaded my desktop for the first time it was all downhill from there. There is no IE installed, no default programs would open, instead I got this error message (example when opening Windows Mail).
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The specified path does not exsist.
Check the patch, and then try again.
It does this for every program. Here's the thing the only C:\ Drive that shows up is assigned to removable disk. Here are the current labels for my default Drives.
Lenovo(Q
ServiceV003(S
SW_Preload(D
So I think the issues possibly that when it was reformatted it labeled the drive a different letter, so it's trying to pull the files from the C drive as a path,. but it needs to be q or s or d or something. Keep in mind this is my very novice theory.

for wireless issue:
have you checked device managemer for unknown/non-installed devices? you may need to install drivers for your adapters.
try to press f8 when you see lenovo logo, then load "safe mode with networking", check if the adapters work.
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Hard Disk free space lick after system restore windows 8.1

I did a system restore and after that, the laptop was functioning slowly. I realised that the disk usage was spiking. Later I realised also that I was constanlty loosing free space from my hard disk without downloading anything or any action. I run the windows
performer recorder when the spikes occurs.Link in OneDrive https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=26DCEC24336471AC%21106 . Furthermore when the laptop is on idle the disk usage goes to 100%. Task manager shows that most of the usage is from svchost.exe(defragsvc).
(I dont think it is a scheduled act from windows to run defragging at the moment). What could be? Any advice?

Hi,
From your recorder information, we could see these 5 process below take high disk space:
WPRUI.exe
System
vprot.exe
avgui.exe
avgcefrend.exe
Since you run the Windows performance toolkit to trace the log, exclude WPRUI.exe and system. It seems you use AVG product.
I suggest you disable or uninstall them temporarily to check if the disk usage decrease.
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Backed up files partially disappear after restore (Windows Server 2008 R2 - Windows Server Backup)

Dear all,
I am experiencing a problem with "Windows Server 2008 R2", using Windows Server Backup.
Here's my setup:
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Thank you for your reply, Ms. Mandy.
To make things clear, let me explain to you briefly:
1. The "missing data" was backed up with "full system backup".
2. After a system restore from the above backup image, as you mentioned, partitions has been overwritten with the partions' backup data in the Backup Data Set taken by Windows Server Backup. No error with backup. No error after restore, and reboot - system
has been running fine.
3. Although there was a report that the affected files(about 7 java exectables) were missing after the above restore operation, other aspect of system was running fine at the time of the report.
4. I have checked the original backup data set - and voila, there ARE files which seems to gone after restore.
5. When I used Windows Server Backup "on" Windows Server 2008 R2 normal environment (= NOT Recovery environment from DVD) and selectd ONLY these affected files to restore, these files could be RESTORED successfully, without any errors. SO... data
was property backed up.
> The recovery will overwrite the partitions so files created after the backup point will be missing.
I understand, and this is not the case this time, because the affected files are already present in the backup data set (= I have mounted the backup data as VHD, and I could clearly see them present in the mounted VHD file)
Plus, these files are completely restoreable via "selective file restore" in Windows Server Backup.
Things I want to know/confirm:
> The recovery will overwrite the partitions
If I understand this correctly, in case that the files in question are already present in the backup data set, these files SHOULD be restored after full system restore, right? (If these files could not be restored, Windows Server Backup SHOULD show some errors.)
What do you think, Ms. Mandy? :)
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Window won't boot after factory restore

Hi:
My notebook is Pavilion dv4 -1435dx, running Vista 64, before i did system restore, windows was running very slow after log on, won't be able to work on it at all.... so i decided to do a factory restore. I tried 4,5 times of factory restore,(but failed, stuck at startup repair). And last, finally have it completely restore. right after that, I did windows upate the first thing. After downloaded and installed of windows update, Windows need to restart.... and then it stuck at startup repair again.....now it won't logon to window......
Please help!! Thank you.

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2) If test passes you might need a set off recovery disc.
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Windows don't start after System restore

Hi. I have a Pavilion dv7 6195-US bought 3 years ago.
I have 2 HDD x 500GB.
There was also a partition with the system restore to factory OS, but I don't remember what I've done and didn't recognized by HP Recovery Manager, anyway, the information is safe...I mean "base.wim".
For some reasons, I had to formatted and reinstall the windows.
I backup all my information from my laptop. INCLUDING the image factory: base.wim and the I try to reinstall my windows.
For this point I found 2 ways on the internet:
1: there are 6 steps ( http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Operating-Systems-and-Software/Another-System-Restore-question... ) but instead of connecting my hard to another PC, I use the second of my HDD to install a random win7 and to do the 6 steps. I do the exact what is there, BUT after the step 6 and restart my laptop... basically it's stop at the point with "starting Windows and Logo"... If I remember for the first time when I opened, it supose to appear a welcome screen after that...but nothing... just freeze image.
Anyway, I don't know WHY or WHAT I got wrong... I try another way:
2: Here is the stept that i follow but even here nothing happend ( http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2243985 )
Please help me out how to figure out a way to restore my factory windows on a formatted HDD.
There is no problem with my base.wim, I restore it ok with image.exe.... but the only problem is after the restart of my laptop and basicaly start windows for the first time... doesn't work.
Maybe is because of my partition type or what? Can anyone give me some clear ways to do that.
Thanks a lot !
Later edit: I don't remember wich of this 2 ways I try, but after restart seems to work until a grey background appear, ans a cmd start with "startnet.cmd"...then a text 2 seconds, but then restart... and that's it... seems like a problem of restoring windows to factory?

Hi @Starhitect ,
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I grasp you are trying to recover your notebook back to factory.
Following the steps in the first link at Step 6 it states after reinstalling the drive to boot to a Windows CD and do a repair. Did you do that step?
I suggest you contact HP support and inquire about obtaining a recovery kit for your notebook and then do the recovery from them.
Please call our technical support at 800 474 6836. If you live outside the US/Canada Region, please click the link below to get a support number for your region.
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Here is a link to assist you with that process. Performing an HP system recovery (Windows 7)
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Finding photos after restoring windows 8 to Factory Settingd

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It is my understanding the you did a recovery back to factory. If you did a full factory recovery, it would have reformatted the drive, recreated the partitions and reinstalled the software back to factory. That means all data on the hard drive would be gone.
You can do a Google search for data recovery. You may be able to locate data recovery software that would allow you to retrieve your photos.
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