How do i reload my lion os without start up discs

how do i reload my lion os without start up discs

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  • How do I delete all data (wipe the MacBook clean) WITHOUT start up discs?

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  • Resetting password without start up disc

    I can't use my password any more, and i was wondering if anyone has found a way to reset my user password without the startup disc, or another mac

    Forgot Your Account Password
    For Snow Leopard and earlier
         Mac OS X 10.6- If you forget your administrator password
    For Lion/Mountain Lion
        Boot to the Recovery HD:
    Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
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          the COMMAND-S keys until a black screen with white type appears.
      2. At the prompt, type the following commands pressing return after each
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         until you do.  If after seven tries you still do not receive a "Filesystem OK"
         message, then the system is corrupted and needs to be reinstalled.
         mount -uw /
         cd /private/var/db/netinfo
         mv local.nidb local.old
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         shutdown -r now
    The second-to-last command above will cause OS X to think that the operating system is newly installed, and when the new owner starts up the computer it will send him/her to the startup wizard where he/she can start a new user without reinstalling.
    This last method does not actually change a password. It simply removes the user accounts and lets you create an initial admin account as if the computer were new out of the box.
    Reset Admin Password Using The Terminal
    You can reset the password by printing out (or writing down) and carefully following these steps.
    First, find the short name of the admin user on the machine. The easiest way of doing this is by looking at what the directory is called in the Users folder.
    Now, start in Single-user Mode. It should boot into a command line.
    Enter these exact lines. Press RETURN after each.
    mount -uw /
    ifconfig lo0 up
    cd /var/db/netinfo
    netinfod -s local
    Now you'll need that short name. Enter "passwd", a space, and the short name of the admin. For example, if the admin was rather prosaically called "imadmin", you would enter "passwd imadmin".
    The computer will now prompt you to change the password for "lmadmin" (or whatever the short name was). Go ahead and enter a new password.
    Now, enter:
    sync
    reboot
    and the machine will reboot. The admin password should now be changed.

  • Erase and reinstall without start up discs.

    I want to erase and reinstall my MacBook Pro which is 10.6.8 but I can't find my start up discs anywhere. Is there a way I can do this?

    No. To do an erase and install requires a Snow Leopard DVD or a bootable backup on an external drive or another Mac with Firewire ports running Snow Leopard.
    You can purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.). The price is $19.99 plus tax. You will be sent physical media by mail after placing your order.
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  • How re-install OS X Lion fresh without disks?

    Something is wrong with programs or something on my Mac and I want to completely wipe the hard drive and start over with a fresh copy of Lion.  I did a Time Machine backup last night and will then just bring over files one at a time from that external drive as needed.
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    Hi rcook349,
    id suggest doing as Colin mentioned, and then some:
    1. Using the reformat the drive option
    2. Installing fresh from your original OS disks (you mention you want to install without the disks, but the Lion.app upgrade file is an application which requires a base install - Im not sure how to make this install file bootable)
    3. Running the Lion upgrade
    4. Running the TimeMachine restores
    Below is a link to a step by step (fresh) reinstallation guide for Snow Leopard:
    http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3910
    cheers
    L

  • How do you reload mouton lion

    how do you re reload moutainlion when purcased from app stroe

    All depends on the age of your Mac and what version of OS X originally came on it and whether Mt Lion is currently installed.
    You use the Recovery HD partition, hold down the Command + r keys at startup, to reinstall Mt Lion if it is currently installed. You can also use Disk Utility from that same Recovery HD boot to wipe, erase, the Macintosh HD partition before you do the reinstall.
    But if you are planning on selling or giving your Mac away you need to reinstall the original version of OS X on it before you sell or give it away. You can't do that with Mt Lion installed as that version of OS X is tied to your Apple ID and can't be transferred to someone else.
    Why do you want to do this and what model year is your iMac. The anwser to those questions need to be known before anyone can give you proper instructions.

  • Maverick  - how do I reload Mountain Lion

    I upgraded to Maverick and abhor the feature that keeps shutting down Safari and other essential functions if they are not used for a short while.
    I understand that the problem arises as App Nap is a feature of MAverick which denies users any choice as to which Apps are closed down.  I have tried to follow instructions to disable App Nap but these ask for passwords that I do not have nor ever generated.
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    Help in doing this would be appreciated.

    OS X: About OS X Recovery: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718.

  • Erased hard drive, how do I reload OS Lion with out DVDs?

    Hi,
    I made a huge mistake of erasing my hard drive. When I turn the computer on it only appears a question mark.
    I dont have the restore DVDs or restore image.
    Is there another way of restoring OS X Lion 10.7.3?
    Your help would be very much appreciated.
    Regards,
    Christian

    How did you erase your drive? Are you saying you do not have a Recovery Partition? You've tried booting while holding down Comman + R? If so, you've got a big problem on your hands.
    Got another computer you can download Lion to? If not, looks like a trip to an Apple store.

  • How can I recover my adobe programs without my backup discs

    My desktop crashed. I can't find my backup discs for my adobe cs5 illustrator and photoshop. I purchased a new laptop. How can I load my adobe programs on my new laptop. Is there a download? I can't find my security codes but I did register my programs when I first started them. Will adobe allow me to download my programs on my new computer?
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    yes, you can download (use below links) and recover your serial number from your account (https://www.adobe.com/account.html)
    Downloads available:
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    Premiere Elements:  12 | 11, 10 | 9, 8, 7
    Photoshop Elements:  12 | 11, 10 | 9,8,7
    Lightroom:  5.5 (win), 5.5 (mac) | 5.4 (win), 5.4 (mac) | 5 | 4 | 3
    Captivate:  8 | 7 | 6 | 5
    Contribute:  CS5 | CS4, CS3
    Download and installation help for Adobe links
    Download and installation help for Prodesigntools links are listed on most linked pages.  They are critical; especially steps 1, 2 and 3.  If you click a link that does not have those steps listed, open a second window using the Lightroom 3 link to see those 'Important Instructions'.

  • How do i free up space on my "start up disc"?

    I am getting a message telling em that my "start up disc is full" and i need ot free up space. Is this simply my hard disc?

    Sports Fanatic wrote:
    Is this simply my hard disc?
    Yes.  I suggest that you download from the Internet OmniDiskSweeper (free) and open it. It will show all of your files and the respective sizes.  Transfer to an external HDD or to Trash, those files you do not want on your internal HDD.  Do not forget to empty Trash.
    Also consider installing a larger HDD.  they now are available up to 1.5 TBs in capacity.
    Ciao.

  • My computer keeps telling me that my start-up disc is full, how do I clear up space without deleting my files?

    I really don't have time to go into the Apple Store, does anyone know how to clear up some space on my start-up disc?

    You might read through this.....it will mean deleteing some stuff though....
    http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/freeingspace.html

  • How do I go about making room on my Start Up Disc?

    I'm sure this has been posted before, but I still haven't seen a response that is satisfactory (and simplistic...I'm a "simple" minded person. LoL).
    Lately, my Powerbook G4 has provided the warning that my Start Up Disc was full and that I needed to make room by deleting stuff (Applications? Programs? Files?).
    I've wondered how this could be, seeing as how even this past year I updated my memory (RAM, I believe) from the basic factory installed memory of two 256 mb sticks by replacing one of the sticks with a new 512 mb stick (giving me approximately 768 mbs).
    So, my question is this: How do I go about "cleaning" up my Start Up Disc? What steps do I take? Is there an application in my System Preferences that I can use?
    I hate to ask so many questions, but I need "baby steps" here people! LoL. While I might do pretty good in diagnosing problems with software and WiFi trouble shooting...this problem has me at a loss.
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    Powerbook G4 15 inch   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   First version of Powerbook G4, before the lovely side ports and non-black keyboard...

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    I don't believe you got around to posting the size of your Hard Disk Drive and the available space as per ali brown's directions. Maybe I missed it in scanning the posts. In any case, your PB G4 would have come with a 10, 20 or 30 GB HDD. The rule of thumb is that you should have at least 10%-15% of free space for your computer to run efficiently and avoid directory and performance issues.
    You have gotten good advice on how to lean down the info on your HDD to create more available space. However, as you have learned, "nature abhors a vacuum" and computer users fill up free HDD space as nature fills up a vacuum.
    My recommendation is to consider getting a larger HDD. Here is a list of drives for your computer from OWC. They will offer you more storage capacity, increased speed, better performance and less risk of data loss due to directory issues. If you are handy you can install it yourself with these directions. I have based the above on the information you gave as having the first G4 15" PB.
    If this answered your question, great! If not, please post back with further questions or comments.
    Good luck.
    cornelius
    Message was edited by: cornelius

  • How do I clear space on my start-up disc?

    How do I clear up space on my start-up disc?

    For information about the Other category in the Storage display, see this support article. If the Storage display seems to be inaccurate, try rebuilding the Spotlight index.
    Empty the Trash if you haven't already done so. If you use iPhoto, empty its internal Trash first:
              iPhoto ▹ Empty Trash
    Do the same in other applications, such as Aperture, that have an internal Trash feature. Then restart the computer. That will temporarily free up some space.
    According to Apple documentation, you need at least 9 GB of available space on the startup volume (as shown in the Finder Info window) for normal operation—not the mythical 10%, 15%, or any other percentage. You also need enough space left over to allow for growth of the data. There is little or no performance advantage to having more available space than the minimum Apple recommends. Available storage space that you'll never use is wasted space.
    When Time Machine backs up a portable Mac, some of the free space will be used to make local snapshots, which are backup copies of recently deleted files. The space occupied by local snapshots is reported as available by the Finder, and should be considered as such. In the Storage display of System Information, local snapshots are shown as  Backups. The snapshots are automatically deleted when they expire or when free space falls below a certain level. You ordinarily don't need to, and should not, delete local snapshots yourself. If you followed bad advice to disable local snapshots by running a shell command, you may have ended up with a lot of data in the Other category. Ask for instructions in that case.
    See this support article for some simple ways to free up storage space.
    You can more effectively use a tool such as OmniDiskSweeper (ODS) or GrandPerspective (GP) to explore the volume and find out what's taking up the space. You can also delete files with it, but don't do that unless you're sure that you know what you're deleting and that all data is safely backed up. That means you have multiple backups, not just one. Note that ODS only works with OS X 10.8 or later. If you're running an older OS version, use GP.
    Deleting files inside an iPhoto or Aperture library will corrupt the library. Any changes to a photo library must be made from within the application that created it. The same goes for Mail files.
    Proceed further only if the problem isn't solved by the above steps.
    ODS or GP can't see the whole filesystem when you run it just by double-clicking; it only sees files that you have permission to read. To see everything, you have to run it as root.
    Back up all data now.
    If you have more than one user account, make sure you're logged in as an administrator. The administrator account is the one that was created automatically when you first set up the computer.
    Install the app you downloaded in the Applications folder as usual. Quit it if it's running.
    Triple-click anywhere in the corresponding line of text below on this page to select it, then copy the selected text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination command-C:
    sudo /Applications/OmniDiskSweeper.app/Contents/MacOS/OmniDiskSweeper
    sudo /Applications/GrandPerspective.app/Contents/MacOS/GrandPerspective
    Launch the built-in Terminal application in any of the following ways:
    ☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
    ☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
    ☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
    Paste into the Terminal window by pressing command-V. You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. Type carefully and then press return. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator. Ignore any other messages that appear in the Terminal window.
    The application window will open, eventually showing all files in all folders, sorted by size. It may take a few minutes for the app to finish scanning.
    I don't recommend that you make a habit of doing this. Don't delete anything as root. If something needs to be deleted, make sure you know what it is and how it got there, and then delete it by other, safer, means. When in doubt, leave it alone or ask for guidance.
    When you're done with the app, quit it and also quit Terminal.

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