How to Reinstall MacOSX over windows 7?

After installing Bootcamp on an iMac I later upgraded to windows 7 but (foolishly!) managed to install this on top of MacOSX so I can no longer boot into MacOSX. Does anyone know how I can reinstall MacOSX again?

From backups.
From Lion Recovery Mode on new Macs.
From OS X DVD from older systems

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how can i reinstall itunes without "windows error 2"

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I got it working, but not before it imported all of the wrong stuff. I set the Media Folder to precisely what I wanted it to import (all of my daughter's Top 40 songs), and then found the Music option "Add MP3 and AAC Files from your folder". That seemed to be the correct option, so I clicked it. Unfortunately, it didn't just stick to my folder, but went off on its merry way adding any song from any folder. It dumped hundreds of ACDC and Aerosmith songs into iTunes (neither band is particularly stingy with F-bombs on live albums) into my daughter's list of teeny bopper titles. When I tried to remove them from the iTunes library, it put up a scary warning that if I removed those songs it would delete them from every iDevice within a 5KM radius.
There doesn't seem to be any way within iTunes of removing all songs from a particular folder or hard drive directory, which would have been nice. In fact, I can't figure out how to show the filename anywhere within iTunes (isn't that a bit odd?). So I manually removed the 2K songs it had imported, which took a good hour. Then I found the File - Add Folder to Library option, and that one allowed me to select the folder I wanted to import. I hate to say it, Apple makes great hardware products, but iTunes seems to come from an entirely different planet.

How do reinstall Lion over SL?

I am using an imac at our school site that came with Lion pre-installed on the machine. The district decided that they didn't want to deal with possible incompatibilities so they just installed Snow Leopard over every new incoming mac (a choice they have since reversed). My question is, how do I re-install Lionm on this machine. THe license for Lion came with the machine so I

So what you are sayiong is the computer you are using came with Lion pre-installed and you or someone else erased Lion and installed Snow Leopard.
Is that correct?
If so does the recovery HD partition still exist on the hard drive?
If it does or doesn't boot the computer while holding down the Command and the r keys (Command+r) and that will do one of 2 things.
1) Boot off the recovery HD partition on the internal hard drive.
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(In other words, I don’t have a multi- or dual-boot system.)
I now wish to reinstall 64-bit Windows 7 into the same C: partition, again in UEFI mode.
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/installing-reinstalling-windows#1TC=windows-7
in the section entitled “Using the Custom installation option without formatting the hard disk”.
The following YouTube video demonstrates this procedure:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr_s29MWOA0
and it looks relatively straightforward.
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The documentation does not state that it works only for a legacy BIOS installation.
If I were to follow the procedure, when I reach the screen entitled “Where do you want to install Windows?”, I would expect to see the EFI System Partition (ESP), the Microsoft Reserved Partition (MSR), my C: primary partition and my D: primary partition.
Can I simply select the C: primary partition and click Next to start the (re-)installation?
It appears that nowhere in the procedure do you specify what mode of installation (legacy BIOS or UEFI) is required.
Does the installation setup simply use the same mode as that of the existing installation?
Does anyone have any experience of reinstalling Windows 7 in UEFI mode, using this procedure or any other method?

Hi,
It depends. Do you have Windows 7 DVD? Does your computer have a Boot from EFI Drive option?
Windows 7 DVD can boot in either BIOS mode or UEFI mode. Different UEFI firmware implementations support different methods for handling the installation operation. The processes for booting the computer into UEFI mode for the Windows product DVD are
the same. If you can find a boot from EFI Drive option, please perform the suggestions as i referred to.
If you cannot find any boot option, perform the steps below:
Use Device Manager's Firmware option and select Boot from EFI Internal Shell.
Use the EFI internal shell, as follows:
Start the EFI internal shell from the EFI boot menu and select the drive with the Windows product DVD. The following example assumes that the drive is Fs0:
Shell> Fs0:
Start the EFI boot application. For example, on an x64 system, run the following command:
fs0:> \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
After the application starts, you may be immediately prompted to press a key to boot from the drive to continue. Press a key to continue booting from the installation media.
Andy Altmann
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Hello,
I was having issues where PDF's were not saving when I was printing them, so I thought that if I deleted the PDF printer from my list of printers and reinstalled it, my problem would be solved. Now I can't figure out how to reinstall (add) the PDF printer back into this window. I have uninstalled and reinstalled Acrobat, and I have been searching the web for about an hour.
I am running OSX 10.8.2
I have Adobe Creative Cloud installed
I am on an iMac 3.4 Ghz Intel Core i7
32 GB of RAM
Thanks for any help you have.
J

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I don't know where you have bought this notebook but I know, for instance, that many people who sold notebooks on the eBay write in description that notebook has preinstalled other Windows version but notebook has valid product key that can be used for any Windows activation.
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hi Chevex,
Thanks for using Lenovo Community Forums!
In the event that the Recovery partition is not working the only option is to use the Recovery CD that you can create when you first got the computer.
but if you were not able to create a Recovery CD and the Onekey Recovery is not working.
You can get the Recovery CD from the Software Department (Fees may apply to the discs)
you can contact the Hardware Team again and ask to be transferred to Software team for purchasing RCD
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