Can I mount a firewire device in single user mode?

I've still got this idea I can rescue data from a hard drive that won't mount.
I put my external backup drive on another iMac to simulate what would happen. Briefly,
I plug in the drive, note the device name.
I reboot into single user mode.
The drive automatically powers off. Grrr.
I turn it back on again. It does not show up in /dev

How far did you go under "single user" mode? In "Tiger", running 'sh /etc/rc' (instructions to use this are included among the messages displayed starting up in single-user mode) starts up all sorts of things. Perhaps plugging in the drive after the script has run will have it show up in '/dev/' (I haven't tested this)...

Similar Messages

  • Mount USB Device in Single User Mode

    Hi All,
    Can anyone give me any assistance of mounting a USB stick in single user mode?
    I am trying to use the command:
    $ mount -uw /dev/disk2s1 /Volumes/usb
    But it get the error:
    --specified device does not match mounted device
    If I put the USB stick in normal OSX mode, then run 'df -k' in terminal, it is mounted by automounter, but I can't seem to get it to mount in single user mode.
    Thanks,
    Nik

    Hi Nik,
       I don't believe that there are enough services started in Single User Mode to do this; you'll have to start the services yourself. However, I haven't tested this so I don't know. Wanna be a Guinea Pig?
       If your going to need to write to the boot drive, mount it read/write with:
    /sbin/mount -uw /
    Next, start the basic services, including diskarbitrationd:
    /usr/libexec/registermach_bootstrapservers /etc/mach_init.d
    The above should be one line, modulo wrapping. Then start diskarbitrationd:
    /sbin/SystemStarter start Disks
    You should probably check /dev and see what disks are already mounted. (without the USB stick) I assume that the services that mount removable media are now started so insert the stick and see if it appears mounted in /Volumes. Otherwise, check /dev and see if there's a new disk. If it only appears in /dev, you can use the standard mount command to mount it. If it doesn't appear in /dev then you might reboot into Single User Mode and repeat the procedure with the USB stick already inserted. If none of that works then this must not be the right method and you have my apologies.
    Gary
    ~~~~
       Computers are like air conditioners. Both stop working
       if you open windows.
          -- Adam Heath

  • How can I mount a CD Drive in Single User?

    Thank you for reading my question. 
    I need to run single user mode on my iMac because of a disk problem.  I would like to be able to mount the cd drive while I am in single user mode.  I would also like to be able to mount usb hard drives with confidence, so that I can copy off files from the internal hard drive. 
    I am in single user mode, which I get to by holding down Command-S on startup.  I can look at the disks that are attached to my computer by executing
    ls -l /dev/disk*
    However this appears to be adding disks.  I started with /dev/disk2 and /dev/disk2s1 etc which I understand are partitions on that external drive.  Now when I list /dev/disk* I have /dev/disk3 and a couple of partitions on those devs.  Is that normal?  Have I not unmounted disks properly?
    I have been using a directory that already exists as the mount point for my usb drives using
    mount -t hfs /dev/disk1 /cores
    which worked fine.  Alas the disk I mounted on that directory was too small.  Now I can't mount a disk on there.  Do I need to unmount or fix up that assignment? 
    If I were to create a directory in /Volumes is that advisable?  How do I make the root directory readable is that by using 'mount -uw'? 
    Thank you.  Please if you answer my question, try to be clear on what commands to use and why.  Bear in mind that other people will read this, and no one on the web seems able to write suggestions very clearly.  Maybe we can be the first!  If I have not been clear, please feel free to ask for clarification.  i am not a total unix newbie.  Rather in the 20 years since I was a sysadmin, my memory has faded. 
    Pete

    I think you need to post this in a different forum.  I think the Developer Forums would be the right choice.
    In any event from the little Unix I know you can't mount a removable device until it's connected which means you need to put a CD/DVD into the optical drive.  At that point if you enter 'df' you should see the device if it is mounted automatically (which I believe it does.)
    In single-user mode the entire drive is readable and all files accessible.  You are the 'root' user.  In order to put the system into write mode you must enter 'mount -uw /'.  Note the '/' at the end of the comnmand line.  That makes the entire system writeable.
    You do not need to create a directory in /Volumes.  When the CD/DVD is recognized an entry in /Volumes will appear unless the disc is unformatted.
    Now take some of the above with a grain of salt.  I'm certainly no Unix expert.

  • Mounting external drive while in Single-User mode

    Last night, a friend of mine's hard drive was failing in his Macbook (in San Diego, I'm in Colorado). Booting into normal mode would cause a lot of errors. He booted into single-user mode and could not figure out how to mount his firewire drive. I booted into single-user mode on my Macbook and hooked up my USB drive and did an 'ls -ltr /dev' to see if the device showed up. Since it did not show up on the listing of /dev, there's no obvious way to mount it. I can't seem to find any legitimate posting out there nor here. Is there an answer to this problem?
    Thanks,
    Dave

    Perform the mount command listed here, using a different mount tool if it's not a Mac formatted drive.
    (36291)

  • Mount external Hard drive in Single user mode

    Do any know how to mount an external hard drive in single user mode:
    I've issue the following command:
    /sbin/mount -uw /
    mkdir /Volumes/ex1
    /sbin/mount_hfs /dev/disk2s3 /Volumes/ex1
    (I've checked my external hard drive using df -k showing the device is disk2s3)
    Result:
    Permission denied

    I seem to remember the "Permission denied" or "Device busy" coming up in some situations but not others when attempting to mount drives at this early stage in "single user" mode...
    It might be worth trying to run:<pre>sh /etc/rc</pre>This is actually present among the "Tiger" messages in "Single User" mode, as the procedure to continue booting but remaining in "single user" mode. Indeed, it seems to start up the usual "services" like starting disk arbitration (so you can eg. use 'diskutil' to repair permissions, or loading "NetInfo" so you don't need to work in '-raw' mode - in the past, people had posted complicated procedures for doing these things manually.
    After running the 'rc' script, try creating your mount point and and running 'mount_hfs' as usual...

  • To mount a CD-ROM in Single User Mode.  How?

    Thank you for reading my question. 
    I need to run single user mode on my iMac because of a disk problem.  I would like to be able to mount the cd drive while I am in single user mode.  I would also like to be able to mount usb hard drives with confidence, so that I can copy off files from the internal hard drive. 
    I am in single user mode, which I get to by holding down Command-S on startup.  I can look at the disks that are attached to my computer by executing
    ls -l /dev/disk*
    However this appears to be adding disks.  I started with /dev/disk2 and /dev/disk2s1 etc which I understand are partitions on that external drive.  Now when I list /dev/disk* I have /dev/disk3 and a couple of partitions on those devs.  Is that normal?  Have I not unmounted disks properly?
    I have been using a directory that already exists as the mount point for my usb drives using
    mount -t hfs /dev/disk1 /cores
    which worked fine.  Alas the disk I mounted on that directory was too small.  Now I can't mount a disk on there.  Do I need to unmount or fix up that assignment? 
    If I were to create a directory in /Volumes is that advisable?  How do I make the root directory readable is that by using 'mount -uw'? 
    Thank you.  Please if you answer my question, try to be clear on what commands to use and why.  Bear in mind that other people will read this, and no one on the web seems able to write suggestions very clearly.  Maybe we can be the first!  If I have not been clear, please feel free to ask for clarification.  i am not a total unix newbie.  Rather in the 20 years since I was a sysadmin, my memory has faded. 
    Pete

    I think you need to post this in a different forum.  I think the Developer Forums would be the right choice.
    In any event from the little Unix I know you can't mount a removable device until it's connected which means you need to put a CD/DVD into the optical drive.  At that point if you enter 'df' you should see the device if it is mounted automatically (which I believe it does.)
    In single-user mode the entire drive is readable and all files accessible.  You are the 'root' user.  In order to put the system into write mode you must enter 'mount -uw /'.  Note the '/' at the end of the comnmand line.  That makes the entire system writeable.
    You do not need to create a directory in /Volumes.  When the CD/DVD is recognized an entry in /Volumes will appear unless the disc is unformatted.
    Now take some of the above with a grain of salt.  I'm certainly no Unix expert.

  • HT1492 Start-up disk is full and can't go past the blue screen; can't delete read-only files on single-user mode. Please help.

    I have had my Mac mini for about 6 years and I guess it had enough of me (haha), so the start-up disk got full and it shut down before I could empty files on my drive. Unfortunately, all these years I hadn't backed up anything and now I can't access anything since it won't boot past the apple logo (and the blue screen for that matter). I have tried rebooting (holding shift as the mac mini loads), but that didn't help since the start-up disk will still be full and stuck on the blue screen. I am now trying the single-user mode (holding command key+s), and I tried to delete files in the trash bin but all of the files are read-only and access is denied! so I basically can't delete anything on the mac mini (it says "Root device is mounted read-only"). So the key here is to change the permissions but I don't know how to exactly do that. Can someone help me figure this out? (and type the command in the unix language please!!) [ Note: We have two users on this mac mini if that helps.]

    Run the following command:
    mount -uw /
    This isn't a permissions issue.
    (87807)

  • How to mount USB & CDROM drives from single user mode - Solaris boot disk?

    Hi All,
    I need to carry out ufsrestore on a single newly replaced system disk (no redundancy / mirroring) from either USB or CDROM drives from the following steps:
    ( i ) GRUB => e, e, cdrom –s, Enter, b (boot from Solaris 10 x86 media).
    ( ii ) Choose menu 1 for Install Solaris Interactive Mode to reach single user mode.Below are the commands that I have tried in single user mode without success:
    mount –r –F pcfs /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 /cdrom (after unmount Solaris CD)
      mount: /dev/dsk/c1t0d0p0 is not a DOS filesystem.
    svcadm –v enable smserver
      svcadm: Pattern ‘smserver’ doesn’t match any instances
    svcadm enable autofs
      svcadm: Pattern ‘autofs’ doesn’t match any instances
    devfsadm
      devfsadm: mkdir failed for /dev 0s1ed: Read-only file system
    mkdir /mnt
      mkdir: Failed to make directory “/mnt”; Read-only file systemPart of the problem is due to the current READ ONLY filesystems which does not allow the creation of mount point such as /mnt.
    I have been able to create both / root (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0) and /export/home (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0) filesystems with newfs that are awaiting for restore using ufsrestore.
    The only option I am left with is to attach a secondary disk to install Solaris 10 on either of them before bring the system to multi-user mode so that service such as volmgt, autofs, volfs are available to access USB & CDROM drives.
    Any suggestion on how to resolve this issue?
    Many thanks,
    Jack

    Hi JKGN,
    Is the directory a located under the root filesystem. ie /a? Are there any other mount point for say USB drive as well? I am not in a position to try it out right now but will get back
    to you soon on whether /a exist or not.
    Btw, the last thing I managed to do on this system at the time was added a secondary 1TB internal disk with the intention to restore both / and /export/home data onto this disk while
    making use of all the disk device management services such as the following services only available in a fully installed Solaris system (both single & multi-user modes) installed on the
    primary disk:
    # svcs smserver
    STATE          STIME    FMRI
    online         Jun_08   svc:/network/rpc/smserver:default
    # svcs autofs
    STATE          STIME    FMRI
    online         Jun_08   svc:/system/filesystem/autofs:default
    # devfsadm
    # iostat -En
    c1t0d0           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
    Vendor: ATA      Product: SAMSUNG HD321KJ  Revision: 0-11 Serial No: 
    Size: 320.07GB <320072932864 bytes>
    Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
    Illegal Request: 41 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
    c0t0d0           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 5 Transport Errors: 0
    Vendor: PHILIPS  Product: DVD+-RW DVD8801  Revision: AD21 Serial 
    Size: 17.54GB <17538875392 bytes>
    Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 5 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
    Illegal Request: 10 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
    c2t0d0           Soft Errors: 0 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 0
    Vendor: JetFlash Product: Transcend 16GB   Revision: 1100 Serial No: 
    Size: 0.00GB <0 bytes>
    Media Error: 0 Device Not Ready: 0 No Device: 0 Recoverable: 0
    Illegal Request: 7 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
    # rmformat
    Looking for devices...
         1. Volmgt Node: /vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0
            Logical Node: /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s2
            Physical Node: /pci@0,0/pci-ide@1f,1/ide@0/sd@0,0
            Connected Device: PHILIPS  DVD+-RW DVD8801  AD21
            Device Type: DVD Reader/WriterHowever, I was disappointed that "iostat -En" has not found the secondary disk (1 TB) even though it was available earlier, for Solaris installation as the only disk on the same system.
    As a result, I am left with no option but the need to rebuild this system with only a single primary disk while in single user mode. However, the single user mode that I am in is the
    one from Solaris installation disk with restrictive (_cannot create folder for mount point or running disk management utilities_) capability such as those services just covered, compared to one from a completed Solaris installation system with full access to all filesystems and utilities / commands in general.
    I would very much value your assistance on how to mount both CD & USB in this restrictive limited Read Only OS (assume that it is running from memory) in order to get complete access to
    the blank primary disk so that full restore with ufsrestore could take place.
    Thanks in advance,
    Jack
    Edited by: 797805 on 9/06/2012 04:15

  • Repairing disk permissions from single user mode

    I accidentally changed the disk permissions on my Macintosh HD to "none" for everyone, except system and admin, who both still have read/write/exec privileges. Now, my Mac won't boot up. What can I do to fix this from single user mode or verbose mode?

    Hi,
    if you reboot your mac and press Command -R you can start in recovery mode and repair the permissions.
    here you can find how to proceed http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

  • How do I mount an external Firewire HD when booting into single user mode?

    Hi,
    How can I mount an external Firewire Harddisk from the Darwin Console, once I have booted into single user mode?
    I'm trying to make a backup of all my files and then re-install my iMac G5 since it doesn't start the GUI anymore and I haven't gotten any responses to my question here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1104762&tstart=0
    Thanks,
    Torsten

    ok, I executed the following commands:
    /sbin/fsck -fy
    /usr/libexec/registermach_bootstrapservers /etc/mach_init.d
    autodiskmount
    There were two messages:
    UniNEnet: Ethernet address 00:14:51:32:19:b8
    and
    Aug 29 20:55:29 launchd: server 2e3b in bootstrap 1103 uid 0: "/usr/sbin/lookupd"[16]: exited abnormally: Hangup
    I don't know whether this has anything to do with the commands I entered.
    And since I don't know what the volume name for the external Firewire HD is, I typed
    ls -l /Volumes
    but the only volume that is being listed there is my iMac's internal HD.
    What should I do next?
    Thx!

  • Mount device via USB in single user mode

    Hi.
    Help much needed. My macbook pro appeared to be crashed with harddisk problem
    at start time... unable to boot to normal login screen.
    When I run in single user mode, I dont seem to see my thumbdrive, or external device.
    I connected them via the USB ports on my Macbook pro (17")(Snow Leopard)
    I checked /dev/disk* and saw only disk0 (disk0, disk0s1, disk0s2, disk0s3).
    I never get to see disk1 no matter what I tried. (I've various MSDOs format,
    or NTFS format disks).
    I followed the advise here:
    http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=232365
    Am I supposed to be able to see the drive the moment I connect it to the
    port?
    Thanks.
    Marc

    When I insert the disk, the root prompt would come telling me the USBMSC message. So, it does know I inserted the external drive. But yet, no new refresh of the /dev.
    The device should be listed in /dev after the USBMSC message whether you mounted the root file system write or not.
    $ ls /dev/disk*
    /dev/disk0 /dev/disk0s1 /dev/disk0s2 /dev/disk0s3
    Either the boot partition table is APM or GPT with two partitions.
    I went to /Volumes and able to read the directory of files that I want to copy.
    You should stay out of the /Volumes directory. Reference your path like->
    ls -l /Users/<your name>/Documents/
    And avoid creating mount points in the /Volumes directory. It is used by diskarbitration.
    At this point, I would stop running fsck_hfs on the device (or any other utility) and either try to mount the drive via firewire disk mode or have someone block copy the disk.

  • Can I connect two firewire devices?

    Ideally, I need two firewire devices running at the same time: One camera to capture footage and one firewire external hard disk for the media files (about 160 GB).
    a) I've been told that I need a firewire external disc, because a USB hard disk would slow down the editing in Final Cut. Is this true?
    b) If so, can I connect two firewire devices to my MBP (74.53 GB internal hard disk), which has only one 400 Firewire port?

    1. Yes, FireWire is faster than USB. However, it would be better to edit on your main hard drive. Use the external drive just for storage and backup.
    2. You can chain up to 255 FireWire devices provided the total power requirements did not exceed the port's capabilities. A single FireWire drive and a camera shouldn't be a problem. However, you should know that some FireWire cameras may not play well with other FireWire devices. If you find apparent problems when both are connected to the port, then you may need to use each separately. In this case you may need to put the hard drive on a USB port while the camera is connected to the FireWire port unless the camera also supports transfers on USB 2.0.

  • Mounting external drives in single-user mode?

    Sigh. What were the odds of the HD on my month-old MacBook Pro and the HD on my somewhat older one (which was filling in for the moment as a backup) failing on the same night? Pretty low, I'm guessing, but that's what has happened. The Genius Bar has confirmed that the new drive is completely toast, and Apple is replacing it now, but of course they can't salvage the data. As for the old drive, while it won't boot and isn't visible to other machines in target disk mode, I am able to mount it in single-user mode and even view text files. What I can't seem to do is mount my external FireWire/USB2 drive so that I can try actually copying the files off.
    I've re-read the man page for "mount" in hopes of discovering the correct incantation, but so far it has eluded me. I've been trying things like "/sbin/mount -w /dev/disk1 /Volumes" and "/sbin/mount -w /dev/disk1 /Volumes/rescue", which return "Permission denied" and "No such file or directory" respectively...not sure that's the right device, but finding an acceptable mount point seems to be an issue regardless. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction, and thanks for reading.

    Thanks, macbig...no joy yet, but definitely a helpful link.
    I've confirmed via System Profiler on laptop #3 that my external USB drive is formatted as MS-DOS FAT32, so mount_msdos seems like the right utility to use. (The drive shows up there as /dev/disk1s1.) Meanwhile, "ls /dev/disk*" on the problem machine returns the following:
    /dev/disk0 /dev/disk0s1 /dev/disk0s2 /dev/disk1 /dev/disk1s1 /dev/disk1s2 /dev/disk1s3 /dev/disk2 /dev/disk2s1
    I've created /Volumes/rescue as a mount point and tried most of those devices with "/sbin/mount_msdos [device] /Volumes/rescue", with the following results:
    /dev/disk1:
    mount_msdos: Unsupported sector size (0)
    /dev/disk1s1:
    mount_msdos: Unsupported sector size (1)
    /dev/disk1s2:
    mount_msdos: /dev/disk1s2: Bad file descriptor
    /dev/disk1s3:
    mount_msdos: Unsupported sector size (0)
    /dev/disk2:
    mount_msdos: Unsupported sector size (64543)
    /dev/disk2s1:
    kextload: cannot resolve dependencies for kernel extension /System/Library/Extensions/msdosfs.kext
    error loading extension /System/Library/Extensions/msdosfs.kext
    mount_msdos: msdos filesystem is not available
    Based on this, I'm guessing that disk2s1 is the device I want. Unfortunately, when I try to poke around in /System/Library/Extensions, I'm getting I/O errors...gah. I have a bad feeling about this.

  • Single-user mode: How to mount and access an external USB drive?

    My MacBook Pro HD is acting up. Cannot boot normally or into "safe mode". Cannot reinstall OS without wiping out the HD. Need to recover some critical files but DiskUtil First Aid and Restore options cannot successfully complete. Problem traced down to "invalid node structure" which means I either have a hardware problem or my filesystem partition directory structure is corrupted. I need to recover some files that are not backed up (timin issue with my regular backup process).
    I can boot into single-user mode, mount the root file system (/sbin/mount -uw /) and can see/navigate the rot filesystem structure via good UNIX command line. Here's what I would like to do (in single-user mode):
    1. Mount an external USB drive (250 GB already formatted as Mac OS X Extended)
    2. Copy various files and/or directories from my HD to the external USB drive (UNIX cp command)
    I realize I could go spend $$ for the Disk Warrior or Data Rescue products (or something similar) that SHOULD help me recover my HD or files, but it seems silly to do this when I can see, touch and taste them from within single-user mode....
    Comments? Suggestions?
    TIA --
    Trent
    P.S. Once I've recovered my files, I'll try to reformat the HD and then reinstall the OS. And THEN go have Apple look at my machine (thank goodness for AppleCare coverage)!

    Resolution:
    1) Boot system in single-user mode (SUM) with external HD attached.
    2) Execute the following UNIX CLI commands once SUM boot process is completed:
    # fsck -fy
    # mount -uw /
    # mkdir /Volumes/target_directory
    # mount -t hfs -w /dev/diskXXX /Volumes/target_directory
    # cp -RXv /source_directory /Volumes/target_directory
    Where XXX is the device-level name for your external HD's data partition. In my case this was /dev/disk1s2. It may take some experimentation to identify this device name if your system has multiple HD's.
    3) Verify contents were successfully copied onto the /Volumes/target_directory.
    Comments and observations:
    - Do NOT use "/" as your source directory - cp will make a second (redundant) copy of /volumes/target_directory
    - I was able to successfully copy ALL files off my HD despite the fsck command's "invalid node structure" error message with this simple procedure. YMMV, depending on the state of your HD.
    - The repeated disk0s2: I/O error warnings displayed during the SUM boot process did not seem to have a negative effect on this procedure. I also received this same error warning intermittently as I navigated the mounted filesystem did not seem to be a problem, either. Again, YMMV.
    Commercial software:
    I downloaded ProSoft Engineering's Data Rescue 3 product (trial version) before spending $99 to attempt to recover my "bad" HD's data via mounting to a good system with FW target mode. It could not successfully complete its "QuickScan" process and immediately hung on block 0 of 390M during its "Deep Scan" process. The product did seem to function properly on an operational system. ProSoft's technical support was responsive and helpful but had no answer for my "Deep Scan" error.
    I did not attempt to use Alsoft's Disk Warrior 4 product. I could not find any trial software available and was reluctant to spend $100 based upon the mixed reviews and comments on this discussion forum as well as other reviews. Alsoft does claim to address the "invalid node structure" error in their marketing materials. Hindsight being 20/20 - I saved $100 by using this simple procedure.
    Final note:
    Neither Leopard nor Snow Leopard's installation DVD could recognize the bad internal HD when trying to do a reinstall. While DiskUtil was able to "see" the bad internal drive it immediately failed when I tried to do an "erase and format". Took the system to my local Apple store and the Genius ran a tool called "SMART Utility" from Volitans Software (www.volitans-software.com). SMART utility confirmed that my HD was bad so it was replaced. AppleCare pays for itself (once again!).

  • Single User Mode - mount external drive and make it r/w

    How can I access a USB disk and make it read/write?
    I can't +mount -uw /Volumes/"Time Machine Backups"+ because it says that the disk is a special type.
    Can I just use chmod because the disk is automounted?
    When I attempt to chmod my USB disk, I get this message:
    chmod: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups: Read-only file system
    chmod: /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/.autodiskmounted: Read-only file system
    I know that I can cp from the internal disk, since I can cat the pictures to the terminal. But I can't make the external hard disk writeable.
    I need to do this from single user mode, because the machine won't boot from the DVD.
    -Michael

    Just got back from the apple store. The genius found these things:
    * My DVD is fine. It loaded in another computer
    * My computer is mostly fine, except for the hard disk. It was able to boot off of an external Firewire disk.
    * The DVD drive is fine. When the computer was booted off the external disk, it was able to mount my DVD.
    * The internal HD is definitely bad. Drag/drop copy to an external HD was going to take 3 hours for about 30 files. Disk Utility shows it in red.
    * He suspects that the failing HD prevented the machine from being able to load a DVD. (?)
    His advice:
    1 Buy a new 2.5" SATA disk at Frys.
    2 Buy a USB sled for the old disk
    3 Replace the failing HD in the laptop with the new, unformatted disk
    4 Boot from the OS X DVD
    5 Install the OS from the DVD
    6 Reboot from the internal HD
    7 Insert the failing HD in the sled, and connect it to the computer once it's booted off the new HD. Copy everything from the /users directory
    8 But a new HD for the sled and use it for Time Machine backups
    9 Teach the daughter the importance of regular backups
    Let's hope this works.

Maybe you are looking for

  • Can I get a refund on opened iPhone 4 within 14 days ?

    I bought a white iPhone 4 32GB yesterday from Apple retail store, but I am not happy with the phone and I've opened it already, can I get a refund for it ?

  • Publishing a file is generating a lot of checked out files

    I have a Contribute 4 user (and I am able to recreate the problem) where she's going into edit mode and is adding one link (to a pdf file) in a Webpage , then when she goes to publish it (which we are publishing via FTP to a Web server set up through

  • Where are system preferences documented?

    Where are system preferences documented? I have posted a question on this forum from time to time, or read articles in MacWorld, and often the solution to this or that is to set a particular preference, for example NSToolTipsFontSize. Is there a cent

  • Elements 9 update issue. RAW

    I formatted my drive and reloaded Elements 9. Working fine. But even when new you had to update to receive 'RAW' All I get is 'error'.  I have try old products recovery typing in my serial No. FAILED again.

  • Downloads in iTunes

    I downloaded a movie to rent and I can't find it anywhere. My acct was charged for the rental. Thanks