Cannot find install disk

I just moved and cannot find my install disk. Got a "Volume needs to be repaired" message while doing some maintenance. Is there anyway to correct this without the install disk? If not, how do I get another one without coughing up the dough?

Hi habsolutely, Welcome to Apple's Users Help Users Forums.
Other threads say *call Apple w your serial number*. There is a charge, much less than new system.
Good Luck, JP

Similar Messages

Boot camp, "cannot find installation disk."

What do I do? It's a Microsoft download from the MSDN Academic Alliance (Win 7 Prof. 64-bit) and I am getting this error.
I downloaded the Win 7 Prof. from Microsoft's MSDN AA site on a PC.
Opened boot campo and created the partition and the CD is visible in finder (.ISO) but boot camp says "cannot find installation disk."
So I moved the .ISO to my desktop and burned a new CD using the iMac Superdrive and receive the samer error.
Anyone have any ideas?

Boot Camp will not install from an ISO file. You must have a bootable DVD. Whatever is on your disc image it apparently is not what is on a bootable DVD. You may simply have a .exe installer application that will only work on a Windows machine or on a pre-exisitng Windows system on a Boot Camp partition.

Cannot find install.app

I had to have a new hard drive put into my Mac mini. I am trying to re-install by boxed set of Adobe Creative Suite master collection 5.5 but cannot find install.app on any of the three disks. Can anyone help? Thanks.

There's something else I have just remembered. The master suite collection was a student edition that I had the platform changed for, from Windows to Mac. This explains why the serial number on the box doesn't work. It had to be cancelled. So now the situation is that I need to track down the serial number it was replaced with. Thing is, I can't remember what Adobe did. I have relevant emails still, but only saying they have cancelled the old serial number (that's on the box) nothing about a replacement one.
Any thoughts?

How can I create a start up disk for a old intel core duo running 10.5.8.. Computer works fine, but can't find install disk.

How can I create a start up disk for a old intel core duo running 10.5.8.. Computer works fine, but can't find install disk. Want to use internal disk drive or USD flash drive.

Try calling 1-800-676-2775. Give the serial number and thy *may* still burn you new install disks designed just for the hrdware in your system (for a fee, something like $160 per disk). *May* is only because they may not burn disks for Leopard anymore.
If they do not burn them for you, you can buy Leopard disks off Amazon or eBay for about $200.
Have you considered Snow Leopard?. Those disks only cost $19 (single user) or $29 (5-user license) through Apple by calling 1-800-MY-APPLE.

Time Machine cannot find Backup Disk

Hey I just got Leopard and I have a backup disk connected to my router which is shown in finder on my shared list, however, when I try to set up Time Machine it cannot find the disk... any ideas?!
Many thanks

Only Time Capsules work wirelessly with Time Machine.

Syincing error message "Cannot find required disk" - Help!

I have a third gen 4gig nano that I got at Christmas. I added two CD's onto it when I got it. Now, however, I'm having trouble syning anything else - that's all I've been able to put on it are the two CD's even though I've added more into my library. I keep getting the error message "Cannot find required disk". Can anyone help me or tell me what I need to do?
Thanks in advance!

Even though you're not getting a -50, I'd check on the following document. (Your message is one of the possible symptoms of the problem outlined in the document.)
iTunes displays -50 error message when syncing iPod on Windows XP

Installation cannot find a disk to install on

Hello,
Very short version of the problem:
*Tiger installation does not detect any harddrive to install to*
Full story:
Yesterday I bought my very first iMac. It's a 20" wirh 2Gb ram and 300Gb disk.
It was preinstalled with Tiger. I did the updrade to Leopard mself. No problems there.
Then I treid to install Windows using bootcamp.
Since then, a lot of problems.
The system will not start anymore.
So, since this is a fresh system, I have no problem starting all over again.
I can't directly start with Leopard since they are only upgrade disks, so have to install Tiger first.
When I have the install-1 Tiger disk in the CD and start the system, the upgrade
starts.
*But at a certain point it shows the box with available Harddrives to install to.*
*That box is empty on my screen !!!!*
*This is the problem: The apple cannot find my harddrive anymore.*
does anybody have a clue what to do now?
Thanks in advance for your help.
Bert Catsburg

Thanks for the feedback. Yes, the menu bar is at the screen's top. Good computing.
FWIW, these might be helpful:
Switching from Windows to Mac OS X,
Basic Tutorials on using a Mac,
MacFixIt Tutorials, and
MacTips Learning Centre.
Additionally, *Texas Mac Man* recommends:
Quick Assist.
Welcome to the Switch To A Mac Guides, and
A guide for switching to a Mac.

ASMCA cannot find candidate disks

hi gurus
I installed 11gR2 clusterware software on Redhat Linux 4.7 I cannot see any disks in the "Create Disk Group" window when I run ASMCA. I changed the "disk discovery path' to '/dev/raw/* from default,but still nothing was find.
*[root@maoxl etc]# ls -l /dev/raw*
*total 0*
*crw-rw---- 1 oracle oinstall 162, 1 May 16 12:29 raw1*
*crw-rw---- 1 oracle oinstall 162, 2 May 16 12:29 raw2*
I have checked the read write permission on the disks(raw1,raw2 here),it's ok,why ASMCA cannot find them?
Thanks very much!
Edited by: KevinMao on May 16, 2011 12:30 AM

RTFM:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E11882_01/install.112/e17212/storage.htm
If you read this you closely, you will find:
a.) Using /dev/raw is not needed anymore, you can directly use the block devices (e.g. /dev/sd*).
b.) Your user right should be grid:asmadmin (or at leas oracle:asmadmin) and not oracle:oinstall.
Regards
Sebastian

Replaced Drive and had 10.4 OS on it cannot find original disks

I need to get an installation OS copy for and intel black macbook serial W8730496YA4. The disk went out and I just replaced it but I cannot find my original installation disks and the guy at the apple store said that they don't even have copies that old. I don't want to pay over 100 i just want the OS so my mac will work.... Help

If you don't have your install disks you can get the 10.4 gray disks by calling Apple Store Customer Service at 1-800-676-2775 They can send them to you for about $16 per disk plus S & H. Just give them your serial number and they'll know which ones you need.
Or you can get the Snow Leopard retail installation disk for $29 if you have at least 1gb of RAM and a working DVD drive. http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A?mco=MTY3ODQ5OTY You won't need the box set unless you want both the full iLife '11 and iWork '09. If you only want iPhoto or other single apps you can get them from the App Store after you've upgraded to 10.6.6. iPhoto, iMovie or Garage Band for $15 each and Pages, Keynote or Numbers for $20 each.

I Need to Reinstall iWork (specifically Pages) but cannot find Install Disc.

I had the most recent version of Pages, but bought it on disc before the App Store came around. Now I need to reinstall and I cannot find the original disc. The App Store does not recognize that I own it.
Do I have any options to reinstall or am I doomed to purchase it all over again through the App Store?

If you can't find the disk or restore Pages from backup, you'll need to buy it from the Mac App Store.
(72085)

Cannot find Installed Component

Hi,
Can anyone tell me why I cannot find the component I
installed from Extension Manager. I checked the Windows menu as
stated from the Extension Manager after I installed and restarted
Adobe Flash but I find nothing.
From Extension Manager: I was told the component can be found
in Windows >> Components ... >> ... as below:
UI ACCESS:
After the installation of the component, you can find Web
menu component in the menu of the Components Panel in Flash.
(Select Windows > Components panel > FreeWebMenus.com
> Name of the menu).
Thanks and regards,
/.. Waynacle

I found the solution in this thread:
Proc/c++

Cannot find required disk

When I try to sync my ipod it tells my cannot sync ipod because itunes cannot find the required disk. We get this error on my new 5th generation nano and my husband's 2nd generation nano, so I assume it is a computer problem. We have recently reinstalled itunes but that did not fix the problem.

Post in iTunes forum for Windows.
http://discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=150
- You'll feel right at home, with other users having the same and similar issue.

Cannot find installed software -- Installation fol...

hi all,
I'm using Nokia E5-00 for a while. Overall i'm very happy with the phone.
But few days back i accidentally delete the Applications\Installations folder (which is the folder where all the icons for new installed programs placed right after i installed them)
And now everytime i install a new program it said install succesfully but i cannot find it anywhere in the Menu icons.
Can you guys help to advise what i need to do in order to see the newly installed apps ?
thanks and best regards

Wow, I didn't know you could delete it. What happens if you try making a new "Applications" folder manually (Options -> New Folder)?

Software update cannot find installed App's in sub-folder

Hi All,
I have same kind of problem - I created folder called "iLife' 11" and moved there all App's which belong to this package. As soon as I did this Software Update cannot find anything. For example Apple released iPhoto' 11 (9.1.1) update and Software Update did not find it until I moved it back to "Applications".
BTW I have same problem with Adobe App's. Adobe update did not see Photoshop which has been moved to sub-folder.
My question is DO I have any chance to put App's to sub-folder and get them automatically updated by Software update? IF so, what should I do?

All sub-folders located in /Applications/ not in /Users/username/Applications. Actually /Users/username/Applications/ is empty on my mac.
What I trying to have is sub-folder (for example called Photo where I will have all applications for working with images (Photoshop, Nikon Scan, SilverFast and so on) in one locations or iLife' 11.
I took this idea from folder "Utilities" I can put App there and it worked and updated without any problems.
As far as I understand this problem (from Unix point of view) is a PATH problems. Software Update cannot find App in the folder which not listed in PATH.
If I create link (allies) for application in /Applications/ folder it will updated.

Yosemite cannot find startup disk

Hi, I have a problem with Yosemite installed on my mid2007 iMac, which has me perplexed. After installing Yosemite I found that on booting, my iMac would not find the startup disk, and shows me a blinking question mark. The iMac might sometimes find the startup disk the first time after installation, but would fail to find the startup disk on subsequent startups. So to get the iMac to start I boot into my yosemite installer flash drive go to the start up disk section in the apple menu of the installer and select startup disk from there, and that gets me into the Yosemite session. Less than ideal.
I have tried a number of things;
A couple of clean installs of Yosemite 10.10.2.
Checking the integrity of the Hard Disk with Disk utility. (it said it was OK in cheery green lettering) I have had an aftermarket Corsair Neutron SSD as the startup disk for 8 months or so, which has been running well.
Checking the hardware with Apple Hardware Test which said no problems detected. I did this as I also had other issues, like beachballs occurring, particularly on the login page delaying login, and a couple of instances of Yosemite telling me that it couldn't shut down immediately because I had a app open, when I had in fact quit the app earlier.
A couple more clean installs, one next to last where even the Yosemite installer flash drive could not see the start up disk. With the last clean install I currently can start the iMac with the help of the installer flash drive.
Googled around, but didn't find a lead.
The only option I can think of to enable me to boot into Yosemite with less fuss is to install Refit, a program that helps people who want to dual boot linux on their mac. It may be able to present the startup disk.
Any suggestions gratefully received.
iMac 7,1(24-inch Mid 2007),2.8 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB memory, 256Gb Corsair Neutron SSD, ATI Radeon HD 2600 Pro 256 MB

The repairs were unrelated. I had a bad logic board and some bad RAM. The hard drive checked out fine.

Cannot find install disk

Similar Messages

Maybe you are looking for