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How EFI shell can help you backup a non-bootable Mac

I hope this post will help someone in my situation who need an emergency method to backup a non-bootable Mac.
Last week, I have to deal with a MacMini (Mid 2010 with Snow Leopard installed) which worked only 5 months until it froze and gave the following error at startup:
panic (cpu 0 caller0x55a1eb): Unable to find driver for this platform: “ACPI”
“You need to restart your computer…”
The same black screen with “You need to restart your computer…” text appeared when I tried to boot from the Snow Leopard DVD holding the C key. Also, error appeared when I tried to boot by holding the Shift key for Safe Boot mode or Cmd+S for Single-User mode.
So I decided to extract all valuable data and send it to an Apple service. Since, I was unable to boot even from a DVD, I tried r-Studio Emergency CD Demo, which worked fine, but the demo allows only files less than 64K to be recovered.
Then I found rEFIt site and created a bootable CD. It started fine and by using the shell I found that there is a copy command that may help me save some data on an USB flash memory. Unfortunately, rEFIt site lacks any information how to use EFI shell, but finally on other sites related to Intel EFI, I found that this shell is just a DOS box. So here are some useful commands that you may use in order to backup your data from a non-bootable Mac:
1. You have to create a bootable rEFIt CD. Follow the instructions here:
http://refit.sourceforge.net/
2. Insert the CD and boot you Mac by holding the C key.
3. When the rEFIt boot menu appears select EFI Shell icon.
4. In the shell:
Use "map" command to list all devices. I didn't find how to list them page by page, so you will see only the end of the listing:
map
Use "map -r" to remap all devices and assign them a letter. For example if you want to connect a USB flash drive:
map -r
Now, you are ready to backup your files. Begin by typing "fs0:" to enter in the first drive:
fs0:
Then "ls -b" to list files page pay page:
ls -b
fs0 is most probably your CD. Try with "fs1:", "fs2:" until you see your internal drive as well as USB drive. You will recognize internal drive by existence of folders like "Library", "System", "Users", etc. Finally, you are ready to copy your valuable data by "cp" or "cp -r" (for folders) command. Let's suppose your internal drive is fs1 and USB drive is fs3:
fs1:cd Userscd <your user>cd Desktopmkdir fs3:\Backupls -bcp somefile.zip fs3:\Backup\
This is DOS, so use "\" for paths. Of course, you will lose Mac OS X attributes such as owner, user rights, attached system information (such as Spotlight comment) and resource forks. But unless your files use resource forks (used mostly in Mac OS 9) you can safely backup using the cp command. If you need full list of EFI shell commands you can type "help" in the shell or "help cp", "help map", etc. or search for "EFI Shell commands" in Google.
Don't copy anything from your internal drive back to it. It may be damaged. Always copy from the internal drive to your external USB drive.

Thanks for posting this, I've used rEFIt in the past for my multi-boot Mac (4 operating systems) however never explored the EFI enviroment.
So Mac's are running DOS? Who would have guessed that?
Too bad rEFIt hasn't seen any updates of as late, don't know how well it's going to agree with the new Lion and firmware updates.

I'm trying to edit a talking head video and want to find an straightforward way to mark a spot at the end of a statement and then cut the clip at that point. Can you help? thanks.

I'm trying to edit a talking head video and want to find an straightforward way to mark a spot at the end of a statement made by the subject and then cut the clip at that point. Can you help? Thanks.

I don't know how to mark a clip the way you want without adding an audio clip and putting in markers and then splitting the clip. You would think that hitting M would be the logical way to do things, but...
But, one can just click before the place one wants to edit, hit the spacebar and hit it again when the exact place is reached. Then go to the clip menu and click split clip. That works, but one really needs to keep the cursor out of both the timeline and the event browser, or the place in the timeline gets changed..
Are you really still using iMovie 08? That drove me nuts...a year later iMovie 09 came out with some needed improvements, and iMovie 11 with its audio adjustments is even better.
Personally, I edit iMovie with kind of a meat axe. I grab whole chunks of video and put it into the project, then edit the ends to get the frame I want. I got too frustrated otherwise.
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When i try to boot itunes, screen goes black and a message pops up and says not compatible with the visual elements. how do i fix this? itunes wont even open at this point. please help. thanks :)

When i try to boot itunes, screen goes black and a message pops up and says not compatible with the visual elements. how do i fix this? itunes wont even open at this point. please help. thanks

Let's first try the following document, only be sure that none of the boxes in the compatibility mode tab are checked (not just the compatibility mode box itself):
iTunes for Windows: How to turn off Compatibility Mode

Siri stopped working. I see message, "HOw can I help you" but do not hear any beeps or response indicating that my voice message is being heard. I cant find Siri on Settings. should it be there? what can i do to get it working again? thanks much

Question? Siri stopped working. I see the written message ," How can I help you", but my voice does not seem to pick up. No beeps at all.
I tried going to Settings to look for Siri and it is not listed there. Should it be?? Not sure what is wrong or how i can get my voice activation to work on Siri . thanks for your help

Try a reset: Hold down the home button along with the sleep/wake button until you see the apple, then let go.

Adobe photoshop elements 10 on MacBook Pro changed from English to German unexpectedly How do I get English back? Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

Adobe photoshop elements 10 on MacBook Pro changed from English to German unexpectedly How do I get English back?

The following may help you understand about deleting photos from a library:
Deleting Photos from an iPhoto Library:
1 - from an Event or the Photos mode: select the photo(s) and use the Delete key to move the photos to the trash bin. Then empty the iPhoto Trash bin as follows:
2 - from an album, smart album, book, slideshow, card, etc.: select the photo(s) and use the key combination of Command+Option+Delete to move the photos to the trash bin. Then empty the trash bin as above.
NOTE: deleting a photo from an album, slideshow, book, etc., with only the Delete key only deletes that photo from that item. Deleting a photo from an Event deletes ALL occurences of that photo in the library.
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HT3669 I have a HP Laserjet M1120 but I don´t know how to scan. Can you help me?

I have a HP Laserjet M1120 but I don´t know how to scan. Can you help me?

Your Model apparently needs to use Apple's "Print & Scan" which is found in Applications>System Preferences>"Print & Scan". There you will follow the following instructions from the HP Support site to Scan, for instance:
Place the item that you want to scan on the scanner glass, or load it into the automatic document feeder (ADF) if your printer has one.
Click the Apple menu (# ), and then click System Preferences .
Click Print & Scan (# ).
Click your printer in the left pane.
Click Scan , and then click Open Scanner .
Click Show Details . The details of the scan display, including options to change scan settings.Figure 4: Example of the Show Details scanning screen#
Change any scan settings as necessary, and then click Scan .NOTE: Make sure to select either the Flatbed mode or the Document Feedermode, depending on your printer and how you plan to scan.
Hope this helps

Why is the initial question "how can I help you" silent on siri

When I first bought my iphone the siri application would verbaly ask "how can I help you?" but now that is the only part of siri that does not say it aloud.
Can any one shed some light on this?

Try a reset: Hold down the home button along with the sleep/wake button until you see the apple, then let go.

How to make Siri say "What can I help you with"

I just got the iPhone 5 (my very first iPhone as well), I hold the home button to activate Siri but she won't say anything and it only shows the text of "What can I help you with?" at the bottom. How can I make her talk? I know that I have it activated for speech because after that when I say a command she'll respond when it stops loading. Also, I added my name as a contact but I haven't had her address me once by it. Does anyone know how to fix these two things? Thank you!

So is the only reason for her to know your name to have her know you contacts info?
Does she ever greet you with your name?

I am 19 days from my contract needing to be renewed and I broke my screen. How far in advance can you renew before the actual renew day?

I am 19 days from my contract needing to be renewed and I broke my screen. How far in advance can you renew before the actual renew day?

Basically it is on the day your contract ends. However some Verizon wireless corporate store managers can over ride that and update possibly a week early. But its iffy.
Now Verizon will let you upgrade to the Edge program but you have a broken device and they will prey on you since you are desperate for a device. Edge plan is paying full price over 20 months and paying taxes on it up front, you then after paying 60% of the device off can edge up to another device. Now if you pay 60% off at anytime after 30 days you can continue to trade them in for new as much as you want.
Or you can wait it out get a new free device under contract or reduced cost device again under a 2 year contract.
The edge plan is no contract.
Good Luck

Video Tutorial to help you understand how to make DVD menus

Hi,
I'm quite certain that most of the people on this forum already know what I'm going to share here, and if it has already been shared before, I'm sorry about that. There are, however,always people that are new to Premiere and encore, and don't have a clue yet what they are doing. That was me not so very long ago. Here is a website you can go to and download a very good professional DVD menu that you can use to create DVD's. Once downloaded, you can take it apart and see how it was created. http://www.eyescreamfactory.com/downloads_dec.html
If you are also like me a very short time ago, you will have no idea what to do with it once you have downloaded it. OK, then go to this website. http://www.eyescreamfactory.com/help.html At the top of the page you will find a link to a video tutorial where you can learn what to do with it. It's very good, and watching someone do something is a lot easier than reading about how to do it.
Hope this helps someone else as much as it helped me.

Hi Bill,
If it is possible that I've helped you even a little, I'm very glad, because you have helped me a
great deal with problems I've had in the past, and I thank you very much. Terry

TS1389 does anybody know how i can find out the answers to my security questions or change my security questions? thanks for any help you may be able to give me.

does anybody know how i can find out the answers to my security questions or change my security questions? thanks for any help you may be able to give me.

Didn't the link to contact the iTunes Store staff in the 'Additional Information' section of that article work for you? If you don't already have a valid rescue email address, only Apple itself can reset the questions; nobody on these boards can.
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Hello I have a problem in calculating the apple id Can you help me please I forgot answer security questions for your account How can knowledge Please help Please reply as soon as possible I can not buy from camels Store And the rest of the account ba

Hello
I have a problem in calculating the apple id Can you help me please
I forgot answer security questions for your account How can knowledge
Please help
Please reply as soon as possible
I can not buy from camels Store
And the rest of the account balance $25
Message was edited by: lingo azam

I think you mean App Store.
Rescue email address and how to reset Apple ID security questions

I was not given the option to purchase applecare + with iPhone 5.I tried calling Apple customer service, the automated process took my info but then came back and said too busy to help you now. How can I buy it now?

I was not given the option to purchase applecare + with iPhone 5.I tried calling Apple customer service, the automated process took my info but then came back and said too busy to help you now. How can I buy it now?

You should call Apple but you should get an email from Apple. I got one a few minutes ago and this is what they said about AppleCare+ :
Thank you for your recent iPhone 5 purchase at the Apple Store.
We would like to let you know that every iPhone comes with one year of hardware repair coverage through its limited warranty and up to 90 days of complimentary support. AppleCare+ for iPhone extends your coverage to two years from the original purchase date of your iPhone and adds up to two incidents of accidental damage coverage, each subject to a $49 service fee.
We noticed you weren't given the opportunity to add AppleCare+ to your iPhone. If you would like to extend your coverage for only $99, please reply to this email by September 21st.
After that date, if you would still like to purchase AppleCare+ within the first thirty days of receiving your iPhone, you can call AppleCare at 800-MY-IPHONE or visit an Apple Retail Store.
Thank you for shopping with Apple.
Sincerely,
Apple Online Store Team

HT5312 Is it just me or does this not actually tell you how to reset our security questions

After you have setup a rescue e-mail, how do you reset your security questions?

It's as described on that page, you will get an option to send reset info to it. But it's more likely that you've added an alternate email address to your account, which is a different address/setting - to add a rescue email address you need to answer 2 of your security questions.
See if the instructions on this user tip help you reset them : https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4551

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