How to rename the OS drive in Mountain Lion

Short of reformatting and reinstalling/restoring the drive from a clone or Time Machine is there a way to rename the hard drive i]n which the OS is installed, specifically from "Lion" to "Mountain Lion." This is a task easily accoplished in other operating systems.

Finder > Preferences > General > "Show these items on the desktop:" Hard Disks. Right click, click Get Info. Rename.

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HT1222 How large is the up date for Mountain Lion?

How large is the up date for mountain lion for my mac in mega bites?

Here are the system requirements:
http://www.apple.com/osx/specs/
You need 8 GB of available hard drive space (plus another 10 GB or so to have empty and available at any time for the OS to operate properly). The installer itself is just over 4 GB (all the numbers are in Gigabytes, not megabytes).
And it is considered an upgrade (you need to pay for it) rather than an update (which would be free).

I have a 15" MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Early 2008) running OSX Lion 10.7.5. I want to erase the Hard Drive, install Mountain Lion, and manually restore select applications and files. Is there a known procedure to do this? Any tips or feedback?

I have a 15" MacBook Pro 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo (Early 2008) running OSX Lion 10.7.5.
I want to erase the Hard Drive, install Mountain Lion, and manually restore select applications and files.
Is there a known procedure to do this? Any tips or feedback?

1. Make a backup, open App Store and purchase Mountain Lion. When its download finishes, close the installer and open Lion Diskmaker to create a bootable USB drive with Mountain Lion.
2. Press Option key while your Mac is starting, select the external drive and open Disk Utility.
3. Select Macintosh HD in the sidebar and erase the drive.
4. Close the window and install Mountain Lion

I loaded Mountain Lion and now my Canon Canoscan LIDE100 Scanner won't work. I reloaded the application, checked the driver & loaded the Canon driver for Mountain Lion. Aplication starts to load then hangs up on 80% complete. Any suggestions?

I loaded Mountain Lion and now my Canon Canoscan LIDE100 Scanner won't work. I reloaded the application, checked the Cannon website for the correct driver & loaded the Canon driver for Mountain Lion. Aplication starts to load then hangs up on 80% complete. Any suggestions?

Might have a hardware issue that was caused by the minor liquid spill.
Take it to Apple to have them look at it. I think they do a free diagnostics. That way you can find out what's wrong with your MB.
Good luck....Hope you get it sorted out.

How to rename the hard drive

How do I rename the hard drive?

Rename the hard drive by control-clicking on the hard drive name in the Finder sidebar:
Rename the computer, go to system prefs > sharing and type in a new name in the text box 'Computer Name:'

How to display the library folder in Mountain lion

How to display the library folder in Mountain lion

Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder and paste the following at the command prompt:
chflags nohidden ~/Library
Press RETURN.

Hey,guys!Is there anyone know how to get the free OS X Mountain Lion exactly?

Excuse me.I'm still puzzled how to apply for the free 1.I bought my Pro on July,before release date.I try to apply for a free one on this webside:
https://www.apple.com/osx/uptodate/
but after I filled the table and send it,I saw the terms and conditions below,saying that:
To receive your OS X Mountain Lion upgrade, you must complete the order form and provide an electronic copy of a dated, itemized sales receipt indicating the marketing part number(s) of the qualifying product(s) purchased. Order acknowledgments, packing slips, and purchase order copies are not valid.
Completed order form and dated, itemized sales receipt must be emailed by August 24, 2012.
Well,the problem is how to email my paper receipt?should I take a photo for it and mail it?but I don't know send it to where,not an e-mail address has been mentioned on that webside,I mean.
could you help me,please?

Open up Java Preferences and it will offer to download and install Java for you.
Otherwise you can open up a Terminal and type:
java -version
Which will do the same thing.

How to recover the recovery hd in mountain lion

i notices the recovery hd is missing appear in my mountain lion ..how to recovery it...
Last login: Tue Jan 15 15:03:59 on console
theinarasu-2:~ theinarasu$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *750.2 GB   disk0
   1:                        EFI                         209.7 MB   disk0s1
   2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            644.0 GB   disk0s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                105.8 GB   disk0s3
theinarasu-2:~ theinarasu$

You have to reinstall OS X. Open App Store > Purchases, and download and install Mountain Lion, so Recovery HD will be created.
Also, if your Mac is compatible with Internet Recovery, you don't need Recovery HD. See > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4904

How to dictate the word comma in Mountain Lion

I have scoured the Internet trying to find out how to get Mountain Lion's Dictation to actually dictate a word that it normally produces as punctuation. For example, how would I have it say the following?
"Insert a comma instead of a period."
In other words, I'm looking for some type of "escape" feature, like the backslash often is in coding.

Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder and paste the following at the command prompt:
chflags nohidden ~/Library
Press RETURN.

Has anybody figured out how to fix the battery consumption with mountain lion (using a MBP 13")?

I upgraded to Mountain Lion, and yes despite all of the warnings posted in the App Store reviews about the battery life being cut in half, I upgraded my MBP anyway. Chalk this one up to the Black Cloud of "I Told You SO!" My MBP could hold a charge for almost 6.5 hours. Now I'm luck if I can get 3, but in most cases I may get 2.5 hours if I'm conservative.
Has anyone figure out how to fix this battery problem? Even now after having it unplugged for almost 2 hours...I'm getting the "You are now running on reserve battery power" message. What a freaking joke!
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Open /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor. Click %CPU until the triangle points down beside it. Make sure it says All Processes in the upper right. Check for applications taking up lots of CPU time.

HOW TO REINSTALL THE GATEWAY PLUGIN in Mountain Lion

The gateway keeps crashing when I try to download sofware off of Amazon's site. Their support instruscted me to look here to find the solution. I would appreciate any advice on how to either replace what I am told is a plug-in - or some other way to work around the problem.

Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder and paste the following at the command prompt:
chflags nohidden ~/Library
Press RETURN.

HT4718 I had a copy of Mountain Lion on my late 2008 MacBook Pro, having replaced Lion which it came with. But the drive,crashed, so I replaced the drive and reinstalled Lion from the original disks I had. How do I get another copy of Mountain Lion?

I had a copy of Mountain Lion on my late 2008 MacBook Pro, having replaced Lion which it came with. But the drive crashed, so I replaced the drive and reinstalled Lion from the original disks I had. How do I get another copy of Mountain Lion?

A 2008 Mac won't have originally shipped with Lion. You need to install 10.6.8 on the computer, log into the Mac App Store with the Apple ID you used to purchase Mountain Lion, click on the Purchases tab, and download it.
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How do I format an external drive with mountain lion?

How do I format an external drive with mountain lion?

Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility
select the external drive in the left pane
partition and format in the right pane

Renaming the C:\ drive in server 2008 R2

I have problem which I don't believe there is a resolution, but I'll ask anyway
Here is the backstory, we have a citrix environment where a certain application needs to write a file to the users' C:\ drive in order to work. In our old presentation server 4.5 farm this was no problem. When we would build the server we would rename the
C:\ drive to the N:\ drive on the server 2003 servers (using drive remap utility). When the users' session was started there would only be one C:\ visible to the app so it would correctly write to the users' C:\ drive. Now we are moving to xenapp 6.5 which
runs on server 2008 R2, and from what I have found online renaming the C:\ drive to a different drive letter (using Drive Remap64 utility) is not recommended/supported. So the app will not launch as it tries to write to the C:\ drive of the server and
is denied. So my question is now, after the server has been built is there any way to rename the C:\ drive to another drive letter? or any way to open up permissions on the root of C;\ so that the "everyone" group has modify access?

have you tried diskpart?
check out links below:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757491(v=ws.10).aspx
http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/9910/how-to-automate-windows-diskpart-commands-in-a-script/
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How to properly make a copy of Mountain Lion on a USB flash drive?

Please Help!
I tried to do the manual copy of Mountain Lion on my SanDisk cruzer blade 8gb flash drive but every time Disk Utility "finishes" the restore it displayes the following message:
'Failure Restore'
Could not restore - Invalid argument.
I tried 4 different times and the last one on a 32gb SanDisk flash drive but I get the same message.
I followed the steps on this address:
http://lifehacker.com/5928780/how-to-burn-os-x-mountain-lion-to-a-dvd-or-usb-fla sh-drive
Help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

For people encountered the same problem with Daniela21, you don't need any 3rd party software. Problem occurs because the partition on the disk (not the disk itself) is mounted. Just right+click or cmd+click on the partition beneath the disk and select unmount. Note it's important to unmount just the partition and not the disk.
For a more detailed explanation with a screenshot :
http://aproudlove.squarespace.com/blog/2011/7/23/how-to-fix-restore-failure-coul d-not-restore-resource-busy.html
Hope it works ..

How to rename the OS drive in Mountain Lion

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