How to format Lion OS X 10.7.5?

I Don't figure out a lot from computers but my MacBook has been hacked I suppose and I want to format it in a
cvery easy way. What is the simplest way to do it?

I Have to do this: Computer has installed the TDSS/TDL/Alureon MBR rootkit. Recommended action: format hard drive including the master boot record, change all account passwords, reinstall the operating system. Ensure that the master boot record is wiped clean. If using Windows, format the drive, reboot into the recovery console, and run fixmbr command.

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How to format my macbook pro and I dont have my lion cd or usb stick?

How to format my macbook pro and I dont have my lion cd or usb stick?

try this
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3294http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3294
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4265http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4265
If you don't have the original PSWD, your beat, so tough if your a kid trying to be a kid

How to install Lion OSX on new SSD without install disc

TL;DR
I need a way to install Lion on a new SSD without an install disc, and how to format it without a Mac.
Hello, just yesterday I opened up my MBP 13" Mid-2010 running 10.7.(4/5) (Not sure which it is, but I think it is 10.7.5) and the first thing I saw was Skype tring to sign in. It looked fine, untill I took a second look and I heard a strange clicking noise coming from my computer. The Sykpe signin page said "Disc I/O error" or something like that. I instantly knew there was something wrong with my hard drive. Tried rebooting, grey screen, strange clicking noise like most people with hard drive failure. I was devistated. It has worked minutes ago, then my brother gets off, I open it up,and the hard drive has failed. After I got over the initial shock, I googled "hard drive replacement" after searching for a while, I noticed most sites just showed how to UPGRADE your hard drive, cloning it and all. Well, heres my main problem. I had no time to clone. Luckily, I had started backup up a month ago, and all my data is safe on my external hard drive, but this is only a time machine backup. No OS. Now, most people can just put in their install disk and voila! But, I, sadly, do not have my install disk. No idea where it went, I just don't have it. So, I was wondering if there was any possible way to make a bootable USB or disk without having acsess to a Mac, or having to buy a disc. I bought Lion, and I'm hoping that there is a way to download this and put it on a USB, then boot my computer from it. Now, my second problem is formatting. I have no idea how to format my SSD, let alone without a Mac. If there is some way to format an SSD so that it will work with a MacBook Pro, that would be great.on a PC
IMPORTANT: No, I don't have ANY install discs, the only one I had, for Snow Leopard, is gone. And no, I don't have access to ANY Macs to format the SSD. Finally, I would really love to be able to do this all cost-free, as I have already purchased the Lion, and dont feel like buying a disc for it again.

Yes. See below:
Drive Erase for Lion/Mountain Lion
1. Wait until the Main Menu appears. This could take quite some time because you are doing all of this over an Internet connection. You should use Ethernet if possible. It's much faster than wireless. Select Disk Utility from the Main Menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select the SSD main entry (mfgr.'s ID and size.) Click on the Partition tab in DU's main window. Select One partition from the dropdown menu under Partition Scheme.
3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
After the above has completed quit DU and return to the Main Menu. Click on the Install/Reinstall OS X option then click on the Continue button.
You should be all set if there are no glitches.

Fresh installed, unformatted drive - how to format

I just bought a SSD and it will arrive in a few days, but I still can't find a clear answer about how to format an unformatted drive. The only answer I can find is to use the installaion disk, I don't have that. I am running mountain lion and can make a flash drive boot, but I can't figure out how to boot from flash. I wanted to know if anyone knew if I can boot by using CMD + R on an unformatted drive to format it? Or anybody know a command that I can use to boot from flash drive?

The easiest way is to get yourself an enclosure for the drive. Here's one example:
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=319523 3&CatId=2781
1. To begin temporarily install the ssd in the enclosure - it should just slide in. You now have an external ssd drive.
2. Connect it to your computer and use Disk Utility to format it as Mac OS Extended. (DU is in Applications / Utiities.)
3. Transfer whatever you want from the internal to the external using an app like Carbon Copy Cloner.
4. Check the external is bootable by looking at System Preferences / Startup disk.
5. Take the ssd out of the enclosure and install it in the Mac.
And you can put the original drive in the enclosure, as a bonus.

HT1338 how to format my hard disk

how to format my hard disk ....my mac book came with no cds

You do this either with a Mountain Lion install disc or drive, which you have to make yourself, or from the Recovery System. For the Recovery System, you reboot while holding down command-R. This boots from a (hidden) recovery partition that is on your hard drive; then you access Disk Utility and do your formatting that way. The Recovery system can do a new install of Mountain Lion from the internet from apple once you have reformatted your drive. Or you can make a ML installer disk from the installer files that you download for future reference.
Here's a page about Recovery mode: OS X: About OS X Recovery
and here's how to make your own ML installer disk: How to Burn OS X Mountain Lion to a DVD or USB Flash Drive..
BTW, you could have figured out all this yourself with a google search.

Can somebody please explain how to format and then reinstall Mac lion10.7 without cd

can somebody please explain how to format and then reinstall Mac lion10.7 without cd

You will need either an Ethernet or Wifi Connection to the Internet - USB Mobile device is not supported.
If you already have Lion installed you can boot to Recovery with Command R and use the Disk Utility to erase the Macintosh HD and then reinstall the OS from the Mac OS X Utilities.
You will need the Apple Id used for purchase if the Mac did not ship with Lion installed originally.
If you want to repartition the HDD you can use the Recovery Disk Assistant to make a recovery USB drive
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848
As Always - Back up the Mac before erasing unless you are confident there is absolutely nothing on the mac that you might possibly need later.
If the machine is a 2011 build or later you might be able to boot to Internet Recovery with Command Option R

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Restart with the Command and R keys held down, use the Disk Utility on the recovery partition to erase the main one, and install a new OS.
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How to format new hard drive for Apple TV when you can't use old HD

I need to know how to format a new HD to install in my Apple TV where I can't use the old HD to clone or otherwise create the new structure on the new HD.
I have an Apple TV that was syncing to a Mac Mini that had a defective HD and logic board. I was unable to backup the Apple TV to the Mac Mini for some time before I had the mini repaired by AppleCare.
When the mini came back, it registered on the Apple TV as a new computer and I couldn't sync with it without losing hundreds of dollars of content.
All was okay until the other night when Apple's defective update for the ATV erased ALL my content. I updated it to 3.1 this morning, which Apple indicated might fix the problem. It didn't. The old content is all gone.
My ATV is out of warranty, so I removed the old HD and copied the files from the "Purchased" folder to my mini. That saved most 101 items that I purchased since 12/08 (but not all for some reason). I lost all content prior to 12/08 that I purchased, as well as some content since 12/08 that I purchased.
I need to keep the old HD untouched until I can purchase data recovery software. I'd like to just put a spare IDE HD in that I have into the ATV and just start over with what is in my Mac mini iTunes.
So, how does one do that? I'm not gifted with vast Unix knowledge or experience and I don't want to clone the old HD and risk losing more data if it writes to the HD for some reason.
Thanks.

Hi Atagahi,
Firstly, have you emailed Apple iTunes support indicating your issue? There have been instances in which Apple will allow re-downloading of all content you've purchased on the iTunes store.
Secondly, I highly recommend you get an external usb hard drive, attach it to your mini and use it as a Time Machine drive to keep your iTunes purchases safe. It's a fact of life that all hard disk drives will eventually fail. The Apple TV should never be used as any kind of permanent storage space; think of it as a 'temporary holding' zone. And as you've unfortunately already experienced, a glitch wiped out all content on the Apple TV.
As regards your original question, it seems like there have been folks who've done just that...taken the internal drive in the Apple TV out and attached it to a mac and copied files from the Apple TV hard drive. I have not had to do such, so I cannot offer any help here except for Linda's suggestion on googling the net for solutions.
Good luck and hope you get all your purchased content back Atagahi!
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Can someone please tell me how to format a new disk to ZFS format?

I have a Sun v240 with Solaris 10 update 8 installed on a single 73GB harddisk. Everything is working fine. I just purchased a another identical harddisk online. I plugged the disk into my v240 and ran 'devfsadm' and solaris found the new disk. I want to add this disk to my existing ZFS pool as a mirror. However, this disk was originally formatted with a UFS file system. So when I run:
zpool attach rpool c1t0d0 c1t1d0I get:
/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0 contains a ufs filesystem.I understand the error message but I don't know how to format the disk to have a ZFS file system instead. Note that I am extremely new to Solaris, ZFS, and pretty much everything Sun - I bought this server on eBay so that I could learn more about it. It's been pretty fun so far but need some help here and there.
For some reason I can't find a single hit on Google telling me how to just simply format a disk to ZFS. Can I use the 'format' command? Maybe you don't "format" disks for ZFS? I have no idea. I might not have the right terminology. If so, apologies. Can anyone help me on this?
Thanks a lot! =D
Jonathon

Yes, you were right. The partitions were totally different. Here is what I saw:
For c1t0d0:
# format
Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
0       root    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
1 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
2     backup    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
4 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
5 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
6 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
7 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0For c1t1d0:
# format
Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
0       root    wm       0 - 12865       62.43GB    (12866/0/0) 130924416
1       swap    wu   12866 - 14079        5.89GB    (1214/0/0)   12353664
2     backup    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned    wm   14080 - 14086       34.78MB    (7/0/0)         71232
4 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
5 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
6 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
7 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0So then I ran the following:
# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c1t0d0s0 | fmthard -s - /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0
fmthard: New volume table of contents now in place.Then I rechecked the partition table for c1t1d0:
# format
Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
0       root    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
1 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
2     backup    wm       0 - 14086       68.35GB    (14087/0/0) 143349312
3 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
4 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
5 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
6 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
7 unassigned    wu       0                0         (0/0/0)             0Woo-hoo!! It matches the first disk now! :)
Then I tried to attach the new disk to the pool again:
# zpool attach -f rpool c1t0d0s0 c1t1d0s0
Please be sure to invoke installboot(1M) to make 'c1t1d0s0' bootable.
Make sure to wait until resilver is done before rebooting.
bash-3.00# zpool status
pool: rpool
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices is currently being resilvered. The pool will
        continue to function, possibly in a degraded state.
action: Wait for the resilver to complete.
scrub: resilver in progress for 0h0m, 0.40% done, 0h58m to go
config:
        NAME          STATE     READ WRITE CKSUM
        rpool         ONLINE       0     0     0
          mirror-0    ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t0d0s0 ONLINE       0     0     0
            c1t1d0s0 ONLINE       0     0     0 30.3M resilvered
errors: No known data errorsBoo-yah!!! ++Does little dance++
Then, after resilvering completed I ran:
# installboot -F zfs /usr/platform/`uname -i`/lib/fs/zfs/bootblk /dev/rdsk/c1t1d0s0I think I'm starting to understand this now. I also shutdown the server to the OpenBoot prompt and booted off of the new disk and it worked! Also, my bootup time to login has drastically decreased - I would say it's about half the time it was before I added the mirror disk. So I believe the server is properly reading from both disks simultaneously in order to get better bandwidth. Cool! :)
Thanks for the help!
Jonathon

How to FORMAT a number field in Formula editor

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I have a "QUANTITY" field in database which has to get displayed in the report as " QTY : " that will look like QTY : 54.
Where as now it coming as QTY : 54.00
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cfinsert tablename attribute, how to format for Oracle

I've been using <cfquery> successfully for a long time
to do table inserts, but now I'd like to use <cfinsert> for
the simple inserts. However, I'm getting error messages. A typical
<cfquery> against my Oracle database would look like:
<cfquery name="myQuery"
datasource="#application.DataSource#">
INSERT into abc.action_type_def (field1, field2, field3)
VALUES ('value1', value2'', value3'')
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I tried the following <cfinsert> but got the error
message that follows the tag:
<cfinsert datasource="#application.DataSource#"
tablename="ABC.ACTION_TYPE_DEF"
formfields="FIELD1, FIELD2, FIELD3">
ERROR:
Message: There are no columns found for the given table name
"PRFA.ACTION_TYPE_DEF".
Detail: This error may be caused by not specifying the table
name in the format that the database server expects. (For example.
Oracle Server table name must be upper case or the Server table
name must be qualified in the format of "schema.table_name". For
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I've tried upper and lower case on the tablename attribute,
tried leaving the "abc." off, but I just can't seem to get it to
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Word of advice: I would stay away from using cfinsert and
cfupdate tags, unless you are prone to masochistic tendencies and
enjoy pain and suffering. These tags are notoriously bug-prone, and
cause more work than they save. Just my opinion, but I'm sure that
it is one shared by many on these forums.
Having said that, you might take a look at the attributes for
this tag, as you seem to have combined the schema (table owner)
with the table name, as in ABC.ACTION_TYPE_DEF, which should be
listed distinctly using separate attributes, namely tableOwner and
tableName respectively. Note: I don’t use these tags so this
“fix” is just based on reading the
LiveDocs
for this tag.
Since you have so much more control using cfquery, and you
said that you have been using it for quite some time, why switch to
using cfupdate/cfinsert? If you already know enough SQL to do an
insert or update , then you really don't need to use these tags.
You will thank me.
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How to format "My Passport" for Time Machine

I have purchased a 1TB Western Digital My Passport Drive (an external drive connected via USB). How should I format this drive to use it with Time Machine?
I'm running OSX 10.6.8 on an Intel iMac (hardware circa 2005). I have been using Time Machine for several years, rotating through external disks. Thie new disk will replace one of the previous disks which has failed. I have forgotten how I formatted the previous disks. I'm primarily interested in whther to use HFS or whatnot. As to partitioning, the format will just be one partition for the whole disk.
I'm going to see if I can figure this out using Disk Utility, but in the mean time, does anyone have recommendations?
Thanks in advance,
Frank

Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select the WD Passport drive (entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. 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. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) 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 Security 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.

How to get Lion off my computer and go back to Snow Leopard???

How do I get rid of Lion and go back to Snow Leopard PERMANENTLY?
I am not techno.
I need simple instructions with plain descriptions. I do not have any discs. The iMac came with Snow Leopard and I loaded NOTHING.
I should never have bought Lion. It is awful.
Please someone tell me how to get Lion off my computer and go back to Snow Leopard.

Can I use time machine to restart the machine before the fateful day when I bought and installed Lion?
Yes, if you have a pre-Lion backup, but you need an installation disc.
Is there anything else I can do? more RAM?
I don't know how much RAM you have. It must be at least 2 GB, or Lion wouldn't have installed. If that's all you have, you might get better performance by adding more. But from your description, I doubt that your problem is due entirely, if at all, to a lack of RAM. If you want to troubleshoot the problem, it will take some patience and effort, and you'll need to be in a calm frame of mind.

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