How I format my mac (lion in my mac and snow liopard in DVD)

My mac came with leopard, So I have DVD snow leopard, I have upgrade to OS X Lion(app store online) I want to format my mac but I couldn't becouse in my mac I have lion but in the DVD I have Snow Liopard so what should I do?

Restart with the Option key held down, tab to the recovery drive, and use that.
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How to format my mac and install fresh copy of Snow Leopard

Hi guys,
When i bought my mac, it was coming with Mac OSX 10.5.6 Leopard.
I want to remove everything and start my mac from beginning again using Mac OSX 10.5.6 Snow Leopard directly. is it possible?
I already bought the Snow Leopard DVD.
Can i just directly re-install and format my mac using this Mac OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD?
Or i need to format it first using old Mac OSX 10.5.6 DVD,then after that upgrade to Mac OSX 10.6?
Please help me guys..
Thanks a lot..

stew pit wrote:
Can i just directly re-install and format my mac using this Mac OSX 10.6 Snow >Leopard DVD?
Definitely yes.
I know that you know that there are two kind of installs for Leo: upgrade and erase and install. In principle, there would be little difference between the two. Many here say that upgrading, versus erasing and installing, is the superior procedure provided that one's prior installation is in very good condition. Others feel differently. I say just do what you prefer. My bet is that percentage-wise those getting good installs from an erase and install, particularly if all apps are reinstalled, rather than migrated, is higher than for upgrade--but probably not appreciably higher.
The processes leading to the final outcome should lead to a good outcome in either case. But, things can go wrong either way. I am not going to try to elaborate much on the specific ways that things could go wrong either way. But, for the most part, they would have to do with the way migration works and the migration technique used (if used), in the case of erase and install, and the existence of problems in the system existing prior to installation in the case of an upgrade.
To erase and install,
1. Start up from your Sno DVD, and start the installer.
2. Choose your language
3. Use the menus at the top of the next screen to start Disk Utility.
6. Erase your drive Mac extended (journaled).
7. Quit Disk Utility and continue your installation.
To do an upgrade install,
1. Start the installer from your Sno DVD either from your desktop or by starting up to the DVD.
2. Choose your language.
3. Continue your install.
Whichever kind of install you choose, you should be well backed up.

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I want to format an external hard drive to attach to Airport Extreme base station to us with Snow Leopard and a PC with Vista. What format should I use for read/write access for both?

I use NTFS for my external drives being used on both Macs and Windows. To get the Mac to write to NTFS, you need a separate program. I use Paragon for Mac software. It works behind the scenes. There are also some free things that do the same thing but I found them cranky and unreliable. YMMV.
Windows can not read any of the Mac disk formats without additional software.. FAT32 is fine but is extremely limited.
For the last year, I have had absolutely no problems on any computer, Mac or Windows.

I recently formatted my mac and now my previous LION purchase is not on my App Store, how can I reinstall?

I recently formatted my mac and now my previous LION purchase is not on my App Store, how can I reinstall?

Hi...
See if it's, "hidden" >> Mac App Store: Hiding and unhiding purchases
How to re download apps from the Mac App Store:
Open the App Store. From the menu bar click Store > Sign In
Click Purchases from the top of the App Store window.
Select which apps you want to re download. Then right or control click where you see Installed then click Install.
Make sure and use the same Apple ID used for the original purchase.

I have two computers. my laptop has os 10.6.8. my mac mini has 10.5.8, hence no app store. can i buy lion on my laptop and then burn a dvd of it and install it on my mac mini or does it have to be installed on the same computer it is bought with?

i have two computers. my laptop has os 10.6.8. my mac mini has 10.5.8, hence no app store. can i buy lion on my laptop and then burn a dvd of it and install it on my mac mini or does it have to be installed on the same computer it is bought with?

You can do it. This article from Macworld will be helpful to you:
http://www.macworld.com/article/161087/2011/07/install_lion_over_leopard.html
I recommend the "brute-force" method.
Just make sure you have your data backed up properly!

Installing Lion and formatting my Mac (with Snow Leopard)

Hey everybody!
I have a MacBook Pro with Snow Leopard.
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Aha!
The proper way to "clean" a computer before selling it is to zero the hard drive. This will make all your data irretrievable.
Steps for zeroing the drive Disk Utility:
1. Insert your Mac OS X CD-ROM disc or Restore DVD disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key until you see the spinning gear.
2. Once started up from CD or DVD, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu.
Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from disc to access Disk Utility.
3. Choose the entire disk (top icon).
4. Choose erase tab.
5. Click on Options
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This will take a bit of time because the computer is physically writing zeros to each block.
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If you want it to boot as new at startup, do the installation of OS X and follow the onscreen prompts until it asks you to enter a username and password to create your first account. Quit the installer and shut down the system. The next time the system is powered on it will display the same welcome message and be ready to setup OS X.
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How to format my mac book pro without the installation disk ?

However, I do not have the installation disk. So the question remains as is the title: How do I format my Mac without the installation disk? i bought this mac book pro last year and im not sure if the warrantly is expired yet. If there is noway to format it without the disk, am i able to purchase the disk in apple store? Many thanks.

You don't. You need the installation disk. You can't buy the disk in an Apple store. You need to call AppleCare and order one. Have you serial number handy. To check your warranty status:
https://selfsolve.apple.com/agreementWarrantyDynamic.do

HT1338 How to format my mac?!

I got an used Mac OS X Version 10.5.8. It works very bad and slowly. What's wrong you think? How to format and update software?

I would suggest the you call Apple and request replacement installation disks. Have your MBP serial number ready and a credit card. There is a fee.
Upon receipt of the disks, delete all of the data on the disk and install the Operating System. Then you will have a MBP that should operate like a new machine.
Ciao.

How to format MCP running lion?

im selling my MBP and i want to give it to the perosn clean of all my stuff and just have lion on it.
how do i do this when there is no disk?

Apple has been changing the way they control Mac OS X. They have always avoided blatant control through registration and serial numbers for the software, but I expect they have been accumulating "crowd-sourced" statistics on where Mac OS X was being installed.
Traditionally, the DVD in the box with a new Mac would only boot that model (it was missing drivers for every Mac) so it did not get sold or traded as readily. The "Full Retail" DVDs would boot any model, but if you bought it, you probably wanted the DVD and were fairly likley to keep the DVD rather than sell it on to someone else. And traditionally, that Retail DVD cost about US$130 or so.
New information I learned recently leads me to believe that when a DVD still came in the box with a new Mac, it would still only boot the exact model it shipped with, but only a certain range of serial numbers. (This may be to reduce use of bundled software in "Hackintosh" PCs with a similar design.) For a variety of reasons, the price of a full retail DVD was dramatically reduced to under US$40, and the "Family Pack" for up to five Macs (at a slightly higher price) was introduced.
Now along comes the iTunes model for music, and the emerging model where you release copies of the "software" (music in the basic model) and now once you have bought it you can just re-download it and re-use it as often as you like. But you cannot sell it to your neighbor. And the cost is even cheaper, which tends to make it too much trouble to steal or sell it, "just buy your own, it's cheap."
So I told you that story to tell you this one:
• Erase the Hard Drive with one pass of Write Zeroes and no one can recover any of your old data, unless they dis-assemble the drive in a clean room and apply a lot of expensive technology to get back some of the data.
• Install Mac OS X 10.6 from a DVD and fully update it to 10.6.8.
Now If you choose to install 10.7, under the new model, it will be tied to your Apple-ID. If they have trouble or need to re-install it, they will need to buy a new copy.
My recommendation: If I were doing it, I would stop at 10.6.8 and point out it was "10.7 ready" and point out to the buyer they can get their own legal copy via download for only US$30.

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Please bear with me, a possible MAC newbie here
I'm about to buy the 13" Mac Book Pro (after ditching the Lenovo X301 because of a super slow processor, slow FSB, slow intel graphics).
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My main OS (stationary pc) is Windows, and will probably be so for a long time.
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Hi.. and thanks for that answer... another related here:
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http://www.lacie.com/no/products/product.htm?pid=11038
This page:
http://pc.wikia.com/wiki/FAT32
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This is probably a simple enough question to be answered:
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Best video format for mac and pc

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I recently embeded an mpeg video, flv, mp4, and swf video file to my web page. I then asked several pc users to go to my page and see if they could view the animation clips. They were were able to view all clips, but the mpeg and flv clips automatically downloaded to their computer. I don't want that to happen. The mp4 did not download, and it worked as well.
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What is the most widely used video format by both mac and pc users?
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code i used...
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Colin has pointed you in the correct direction.
I'll bet you're using just plain text "links" to your files. That method by-passes the browser plug-in and can cause issues (especially on Windows).
You need solid html code that gives the browser plug-in all of the needed instructions.
Another thing that may have happened is that your fast start files have lost their fast start abilities. This happens with any fast start file that is then edited and uses a regular "save". Save As will restore the fast start feature (even in files that do not normally have it).
AVI is dead. Do not use it.
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Maybe QuickTime format using MPEG-4 Video codec and AAC audio?
They would only require QuickTime version 6 be installed. Since version 6 has been around for over 5 years it may be your best option.
But you're still going to get complaints from PC viewers.

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Now you can be 100% sure, StarDeb!
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hello
i wanted to get rid of everything so i backed up all the files i needed in an external hard drive
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Message was edited by: cajred

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