Help installing new X-Fi driv

I have the X-Fi extreme Music sound card and according to the Creative download section http://tinyurl.com/2589n6, there is a driver update. Currently I am using the driver that was on the included CD. Am I suppose to uninstall my current X-Fi driver first or should I just download that one and install over it's

use creative software autoupdateit will install for youalternati'vely , you can dl and installif you using vista there is a new driverif you using xp creative will not suport xp and will not be making a new driver

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Need help installing new hard drive and wiping the old one for Windows XP.

I’ve searched to try and figure out the answer to my question and haven’t been too successful, so hopefully someone can help me out. I have a new Mac Pro that I haven’t even turned it on yet because I’m waiting for some upgrades to show up. Here is what I plan to do, I’m unsure of what I need to do and what order to do it in:
It has a stock 250GB hard drive that I plan to wipe and install Windows XP on. I have a new 750GB drive coming that will run Leopard which will be my primary OS. Once I have this set up, I will probably try running VM Fusion which I assume I can install later on. Here are my questions:
When I put my new blank 750GB drive in to install Leopard, will OS X boot up off the Leopard install disc to then allow me to do the install?
When do I wipe the smaller drive to put Windows on it, before or after I’ve installed Leopard on the new drive? How should I wipe it, using the Bootcamp setup assistant or Disc Utility? If I wipe it after installing Leopard, will I be prompted for which drive to boot from?
Thanks in advance for any help.

I don't use Windows, but I think the proper order to do things would be this:
First, if your Mac Pro came with Tiger installed, when you start it up for the first time, you'll need to go through some initial setup, create an administrator account, etc. You can go ahead and do this.
Afterwards, you can install your 750 GB drive. Next, you can insert your Leopard disk, and go to System Preferences/Startup Disk to choose to start up from the disk. (Alternatively, if you just choose "Install Mac OS X" from the disk, it will instruct you to restart the mac.)
When the mac boots from the disc, install Leopard on your 750. Once you have that done, and have booted from that drive, you'll be able to erase your 250 in Disk Utility, and then install Windows on it.

Installed new SSD boot drive, Time Machine won't backup

I installed a new 240 GB SSD boot drive (cloned using Super Duper) in my Mac Pro and want to use it as my startup disk. When I boot up using the new 240 SSD drive and try to start Time Machine to back it up onto a 500GB external drive it tells me it failed because the estimated backup size is over 2 TB. I suspect that Time Machine still has the last backup from my old boot drive, which was a 3TB hard drive. I go to Options and tell it not to back up any of my other hard drives but that doesn't help. So now what? How can I get rid of the last backup, which was from my 3 TB hard drive, so that I can backup a 240 GB SSD on a 500 GB external drive? Or is it another problem? Help!! Thanks!!

Problem solved, wasn't using Options/Exclude items properly.

Help Installing new fonts

Ive looked over the wiki page regarding installing new fonts and am finding it a bit confusing. The wiki suggests creating a package and lists provides and example but I am still unsure how exactly to use it.
Lets say my font is downloaded to: ~/Desktop/font.ttf
What exactly would I edit in this code, and then what would i type to package it and then install it?
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pkgver=1.0
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Last edited by life617 (2013-11-14 17:08:37)

It doesnt say that anywhere, so i was doing it wrong.
/home/imhotep: sudo chmod 777 fonts2
/home/imhotep/fonts2/: ls -la
Bronx.ttf
PKGBUILD
ttf-Bronx.install
PKGBUILD
pkgname=ttf-Bronx
pkgver=1.0
pkgrel=1
depends=('fontconfig' 'xorg-font-utils')
pkgdesc="custom fonts"
arch=('any')
source=(Bronx.ttf)
install=$pkgname.install
package() {
install -d "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
cp -dpr --no-preserve=ownership "$srcdir/$pkgname/"*.ttf "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF/"
ttf-Bronx.Install
post_install() {
echo -n "Updating font cache... "
fc-cache -fs >/dev/null
mkfontscale /usr/share/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/Type1
mkfontdir /usr/share/fonts/TTF /usr/share/fonts/Type1
echo "done"
post_upgrade() {
post_install
post_remove() {
post_install
cd ~/fonts2
makepkg> Error: Integrity checks are missing.
makepkg -m >
=> Making package: ttf-Bronx 1.01-1 (Thu Nov 14 15:50:03 EST 2013)
=> Checking runtime dependencies
=> Retriving sources ...
->Found Bronx.ttf
=>ERROR: Integrity checks are missing.
makepkg -g >> PKGBUILD && makepkg
zsh: permssion denied: PKGBUILD
makepkg --skipinteg
=>Making package: ttf-Bronx 1.01 (Thur Nov 14 16:01:40 EST 2013)
=>Checking runtine dependices...
=>checking build time dependencies...
=>Retrieving sources...
->Found Bronx.ttf
=>Warning: Skipping all source file integrity checks.
=>Extracting sources...
=>Removing esisintg pkg/ directory ...
=>Entering fakeroot environment...
=>Starting package()...
cp: cannot stat '/home/imhotep/fonts2/src/ttf-Bronx/*.ttf': no such file or directory
=> ERROR: A failure occured in package().
ABORTING...
Last edited by life617 (2013-11-14 22:06:11)

New tech help install new hard drive

Installing a new drive in late 2007 MBP. Read about cloning drives et al. using carbon cloner.
Instructions for cloning to an already formatted external verbatim HD - by dividing an existing partition looks simple enough.
http://help.bombich.com/kb/overview/formatting-your-hard-drive-for-use-with-carb on-copy-cloner
I would do the clone just to see how it works and have a bootable copy of my existing drive...
But what I'd like to do is - Fresh Install - everything, and pull desired data over manually from time machine back up I have on external.
QUESTION - after I install the new "unformatted drive" into computer what happens when I start it up since there is no operating system? Will I just be able to restart and use my Snow Leopard disk - NOT ORIGINAL COMPUTER INSTALLATION DISKS - to format drive and install OS ?
If so, I would do software upgrades, then install applications and updates, then get my data from time machine back up.
Any advice appreciated. Thanks.
David Stamm

You will need to do this:
Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
7. When formatting is completed quit DU and return to the installer. Complete the OS X installation.
When done you will boot into the newly installed system on the newly installed drive. You can then restore what you want from your backup.

Help installing new JDBC driver on LINUX

Hello,
Today, I downloaded the new SQL Server 2005 JDBC Driver onto
my Linux Server. The path to the driver's .jar file is
/root/sqljdbc_1.0/enu/sqljdbc.jar. I placed that path in my CF
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instance of SQL Server 2005 so the communicatio is there but I
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Please help Installing new Hard Drive. PLEASE HELP

I know this topic has been posted before and I have read all the reviews but still nothing ..
I m trying to install a new hd. I put the screws where there needed to go, plugged in all appropriate SATA plugs into new HD, went to dicl utility and no new HD shows up to initialize or format. Please help me .. I have purchased a 500 gb Seagate HD from ramjet.
Item:
Seagate 500GB SATA II 7200rpm 16mb
Specifications:
Capacity: 500GB
Performance
Rotational Speed: 7200rpm
Buffer Size: 16mb
Transfer Rate
Serial ATA (G/s): 3.0G/sec
Average Seek: < 8.5ms
Average Latency: 4.16ms
I have installed and uninstalled the new HD about 5 times already. Please help me

On older ATA drives there are little plastic tabs that, depending on configuration, designate a drive as "Master" or "Slave." If both drives are configured as "master" it can sometimes cause one not to be seen by the computer.
I only mentioned it because:
A) I had it happen 2x with my old G4.
B) Most new drives are shipped with the jumpers in "master" position, I'm guessing because they assumed most people were replacing their primary drives, not adding them.
Check out these links for more about jumpers on drives.
http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/ref/jumper_settings.html
http://www.pcmech.com/show/harddrive/43/
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Novice needs help installing new hard drive

I have a macbook and purchased a new hard drive after my current hard drive failed. I can remove the battery, unscrew the 3 screws, install the new hd. What are the steps that follow to bring my machine up to being back to normal? Let's approach this with "color by numbers" type instruction. Thanks

Bama--
You score points for guts. Novice changing HDD is not one I see often. You also lose points for not getting directions first before starting. (I work in education, and thus grade a lot of work and exams.)
As this is an open book/open note exam for you, best you look here: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/MacBook13inch_HardDriveDIY.pdf. If this is not your MacBook, then we'll need just a bit more info to steer you in the right direction.
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The original hard drive in my powerbook went out and I bought a Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD3200BEVE 320GB 5400 RPM 2.5" ATA-6 to replace it. However, when I boot from the OS X disk and run the disk utility to format the drive I am unable to locate it in the list of available dirves. Only my DVD drive is listed. Am I missing a step?

So I am assuming that you already have it installed into the Powerbook? If so then see if you can boo the mac into Firewire Target Disk Mode. This will help troubleshoot whether or not you have the drive installed correctly.
To boot the Mac into TDM:
Power-on the Mac and immediately press and hold the "t-key" until the firewire symbol appears. If you cannot boot into TDM then you may need to recheck the installation of the HDD.

Installing new internal hard drive. How do I safely clone my existing BOOTCAMP partition?

I have a 13 inch Aluminum Late 2008 MacBook. Processor 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, Memory 4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3, Software Mac OS X Lion 10.7.4 (11E53). Currently I have a 160 GB SATA disk as my hard drive a d 4 GB of memory. (Is it time to upgrade or what?) I recently bought a Western Digital 1 TB internal hard drive to replace my exisiting internal hard drive. I spent a lot of time last night trying to first- connect this new hard drive to my computer so that I can then clone the existing hard drive and then hoping that I would get that done so I could install the new hard drive. No such luck.
My current hard drive is partitioned as follows:
Name: Macintosh HD
Format: Mac OS Extended (journaled)
Size: 132.5 GB
Name: BOOTCAMP
Format: Windows NT File System (NTFS)
Size: 26.69 GB
When I was partitioning the new drive I did so as follows:
Name: Macintosh HD
Format: Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Size: 973.51 GB
Name: BOOTCAMP
Format: MS-DOS (FAT) --- This was the only option that I was given that I thought would work. I did not have the option of "Windows NT File System (NTFS) to choose from. Question # 1: is that going to be a problem? I only run 1 program on Windows and that is the only reason I have BOOTCAMP on there at all. However, I do HAVE to have that program. Like I said it didn't give me the option to choose Windows so I didn't know where to go with this. Any help with that would be awesome.
Size: 26.34 GB (I just used the same size that was current, or close to it.)
I connected the Western Digital 1 TB through an external device, partitioned it as stated above, and then used Carbon Copy Cloner to clone the drives. The first one went through fine. (It took 2 hours and I went to bed before it finished.) This morning I woke to see that it had gone through well. I then started the process with the BOOTCAMP drives. However, before I started it gave me errors stating that I wouldn't be able to run Windows off of the Cloned BOOTCAMP drive. Question #2: Is it because of the Format type I chose when partitioning? Or something else? I am unsure where to go from here. I would really appreciate any help that is out there. I would love to get this new drive installed ASAP. Thank you so much in advance!

Well yes and no. I succeeded with the clone. All of the information seems to be there. However, it isn't showing in the system preferences - start up disk -- as a start up disk option. Therefore I assume it didn't clone correctly, or at least not in a way to use it the way I was. I am thinking it may be a better idea to just run Parallels or a similar software program. I rarely use the software that has to run in Windows. And maybe that will be the easiest way. I think I will still have to change the way I have it because I assume if it isn't running as it was before now I must have done something wrong.
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I am trying to install a Western Digital 1.5 TB (model # WD15EARSSP) internal hard drive to my HP ENVY 700-230qe CTO Desktop PC. Would you please provide me the instruction menu and procedure for the second HD installation? What kind cable and other supplies do I need to connect the new HD to my PC? SATA cables: Straight–Straight, Straight–left angle, Straight-right angle… etc.
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Bling888, welcome to the forum.
Here is a guide that should help you. Be certain to watch the video. You will need SATA III cables; power and data. Although, the SATA 1.0 cables will work fine if you don't have the others. I have found that the straight cables have always worked for me.
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Re: Satellite P500-12F - Can't install new nVidia display driver

Good evening,
I am sorry for a stupid question, but I just do not know what to do. I have Satellite P500-12F.
I wanted to download newer graphics drivers for the NVidia card, so I went to the NVidia website and downloaded a new driver, which is dated back to December 2009, instead of mine, which is of July 2009 However, when I try to install it, the system says that theya are no hardware which is compatible with the new driver.
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My wifes 15 in Mid 2010 lap top running 10.8.4 has run out of drive space so we bought a new 1tb drive to install. We aren't sure where to go from here. The current contents are back up on Time Machine, but we also bought a small hard drive enclosure to take out the current hard drive and put it in the small enclosure.
So...do we install the new 1tb drive into the laptop and then try and start from the original hard drive that is now in an enclousure...then "Copy" or "Migrate" the material from the original hard drive to the new on? If so...how is that done?
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After formatting the new hdd, while still outside the mac, make a clone of your internal disk with CarbonCopyCloner on the new (still external) disk: CCC will ask you to install the Recovery Partition also, do that, and then the clone.
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I'm going to install a second drive into my G4. This is from an exact duplicate of my current computer. What do I need to do to get this into my computer...it has information on it now, but I don't need it. Please give me step by step instructions. Thanks Leigh

I just added drive(s) to my G4 450 (Sawtooth) and had boot problems and knew it had to do with jumper settings. I solved it however by putting my original boot drive in the upper portion of the carrier and a new drive in the lower portion. That way the data cables were syncing correctly.
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Hello fellow Apple'rs,
I own a Dual 2.3 GHz PowerPC G5 running OS 10.4.11.
I am ready to swap out the original 250MB internal hard drive for a larger one (1TB HD Seagate Barracuda 7200.12) and transfer my data over. I'm unclear the best way to do this.
The OS, as well as my docs, and applications all reside on my main older 250MB drive (I’ll refer to it as ‘Drive A’). I want to transfer them onto the new 1TB drive.
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The mechanical installation should be no problem, but I’m unclear what the best method is of transferring over the OS and all my files and applications from Drive A to Drive C. Of concern is that the creation date of all my files are preserved and also that the links to all my aliases are maintained after the transfer. I once did a transfer between Powerbooks and only discovered at a later date that the creation date for ALL my files had changed to the date of the transfer! A huge loss for me.
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Is it best to just copy everything over or is it best to re-install the OS and applications? I want to maintain all my OS settings and also want to minimize the labor involved in the swap.
One last thought: this computer runs noticeably slower than when I first purchased it in 2006. As I am now starting with a fresh HD, is there anything I can vis-à-vis the transfer improve performance?
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Lovegasoline (happy Mac owner since 1994)
(Message was edited by Lovegasoline to clarify an error in Drive nomenclature).
Message was edited by: Lovegasoline

This last post raises the question: does it matter which HD bay (upper or lower slot) the new Drive C is installed in?
I know the startup disc is selected in System preferences, but is there a reason to chose one slot over the other (ex., startup sequence in the event of system boot problems, etc.)?
I'm slightly delayed in effecting the new HD installation.
There are a few items in my system organization that I've uncovered and wish to resolve (then do a fresh backup) before doing the HD swap. I notice my 'Documents' folder, which contains most of my personal files, is located in my 'MUSIC' folder(!) and it is different from my user 'Document' folder (the latter has the 'folded corner paper icon' located in my home folder. The Document folder in my user home folder has non of my personal files, but instead has a few application support files of some sort.
I may need to inquire in the OS section of this forum.
Also, I'd like to rethink, and get some opinions, regarding my HD functions, i.e., how best to organize either whole drives and/or partitions for the OS, virtual memory(?), apps, docs, Photoshop scratch disc to maximize performance and stability.

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