Clean Install Help.
Hi. I have several questions and would be so grateful to anyone that helps me answer then.
I want to do a clean install of lion. I have a terebite hard drive with my time machine back-ups on it. So my questions are:
Can i put the Lion install thing on that same hard drive and use it for the clean install? If not, how else can i do it?
How can i manually move all of my applications and software without it loosing it's preferences, serials, plug-ins etc?
That's all of my questions at the moment.
Thanks in advance.
HI I have replaced my original HD three times with a newer larger format discs. I get slow response times spinning beach ball issues Disc utility would report a corruption on all the discs and I have reformat them serveral times. after reformatting Disc utillity would report the discs as perfect. with in weeks the problems would reserface and eventually got stuck on a grey screen at which point i took it into an approved apple repair shop they could not find any issues with the computer ran lots of checks etc. and basically told me that my Mac pro 2.1 could only handle 500gb discs and posed this as the route of my problem.
Seem my Video card was damaged in the process so as well so having reinstalled the operating system on a old 500 Gb dics and having a news set of issue related to the snapped video card The Computer was retuned to the shop and the sata controller was investigated a brand new disc put in and the shop said every thing was fine
As Far as i can make out either there is a problem with the sata controler and this is damaging the hds
or i have been very unlucky and brought three damaged HDs
Or all the new Hds excceded the capacity of my particular mac pro and the os cannot function correctly on 1TB a 1.5TB and Two 2TB drives which all seem to function perfectly other than with the os on.
SO I have no other option to take seriously the point that the OS cannot function correctly on a HD of larger than 500GB
And that there is likely to be some corruption in my Time machine back up. So here i am with a new 500 GB Disc and fresh copy of the opprating system, wondering where to go from here. should i risk a time machine Backup or continue and basically loose lost of important data ?
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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
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I previously had a problem with my Laptop dying randomly you can read about it in the thread entitled Computer dies Randomly (Battery also dead) click to view
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Everything went perfectly and thought a clean install was a good opportunity to download the “XP Service Pack 3” SP3 and did so, it seemed very quiet though and that’s when I realised I had no sound…
I downloaded all of the sound drivers I could find on the Lenovo site for 3000 N100 (I knew from previous experience that the “SOUNDMAX” driver is the only one that actually works with this 3000 N100) in order to install this you have to install the Realtek HD audio driver, but in order to install that you have to install some other Driver/Soft that only works with SP1 or SP2 if you try to install it with SP3 it will say that you don’t need the file as your Service pack is newer than the file you want to install, this is understandable as SP3 is not final as of yet (but it’s good to know).
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I am pretty sure that everything else is working fine now, just that button not working is very annoying, is there a set routing of installs you must do to get everything working, i.e. bios 1st audio 2nd system update 3rd etc...
Please help, I hope I have helped you...
Message Edited by DrunkenNinja on 05-07-2008 03:38 AM
Message Edited by DrunkenNinja on 05-07-2008 03:38 AM
Solved!
Go to Solution.Ok first everything works now... except the Lenovo Care button, I just posted the other stuff cause it might help other members, I have searched the forum for an anwser to this problem but there was only one anwser (suggesting to uninstall the driver restart and re-install it) and it did not result in a working Lenovo Care button...
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Blink Code after System Update
Hi, after Updating my Z10 to the latest Software Release the device doesn´t boot any more. After turning on the device, the LED just have a blink code 1101111 - nothing more! I have already unplugged the accu. Any Ideas?