I am now using 10.6.8. Downloaded Maverick but cannot update OS on HD because get message the disk is not formatted as Mac OS extended(journaled). Tried to use Disk Utility as per instruction but cannot complete operation.
I am now using 10.6.8. Downloaded Maverick but cannot update OS on HD because get message the disk is not formatted as Mac OS extended(journaled). Tried to use Disk Utility as per instruction but cannot complete operation.
Barney-15E:
The partition method worked after some trepidation. I got the spinning beach ball after partitioning and couldn't go further till I named the second partition. That may have done it. Right now, things seem to be working o.k. I'm updating a current iPhoto and will have to get a MS Word program that will function on the current OS and a current Quicken.
If necessary, can start up from the 10.6.8 system which I downloaded to an external HD before updating. I can always fall back on that. Also, I hope I don't get too many disconnects. Thank you for your help.
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I go to disc utility and verify and repair disc permissions. Doesn't work. I try to enable journalling but it isn't highlighted and am not able to do that as well.
I meet all those requirements. core 2 duo and latest snow leopard. I have a late 2006 mac book. Maybe that's why. Its telling me that my hard drive isn't formatted correctly but it is formatted as they ask. It's not the hard drive that came with the macbook though.
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Thanks for any suggestions...iMac 2010 SL 10.6.8 trying to install ML 10.8.2 At the start of the installation(using downloaded installer from App Store) the installer advises that the Macintosh HD is not formatted as Moc OS Extended and directs me to aDisk Utility to do this .. surely this would format the drive and possibly do a Clean install ...which I not want to do..Is there a way to get round this issue?
Get a blank powered external drive equal too or slightly larger than your internal boot drive
Download a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner
Use Disk Utility to Erase the drive using the Middle Secure Erase selection and wait. until finished (may take hours)
Format the external drive Partition: 1, Option: GUID and Fomat: OS X Extended Journaled
Use CCC's default settings and clone your internal drive to the external one, may take hours.
When it's done, hold the option key down (wired or built in keyboard only) and reboot the computer, a screen pops up with bootable options, select the clone drive and check it out for some time.
Run Disk Utility from the clone and select the Macintosh HD partition and Partition: Format: OS X Extended Journaled and click apply, it likely will moan about this will delete all your data (it will)
Next click the Erase tab and use the middle secure erase option and click apply, wait it out again.
When that's finished use Carbon Copy Cloner to reverse clone the clone back onto the internal drive.
(note: in the future you can eliminate the secure erase steps and just click normal erase, as the bad sectors will have been already mapped off by the drive firmware)
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Back-up has worked fine until today. Cannot completelately -"Back-up failed. Stopped all programs and tried again - no go.Have LaCie 1TD drive, 235GB used.
Format OS extended (journaled) on the drive.
Mac OSX 10.8.8.
iMac 2.4 GHz Core 2 Duo
Any ideas appreciated.
Have same drive on newer iMac - appears OK.Hi Joseph, was hoping the resident TM expert Pondini would drop in, but I guess not.
"Try Disk Utility
1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu at top of the screen. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the First Aid tab.
4. Select your Mac OS X volume.
5. Click Repair Disk, (not Repair Permissions). Disk Utility checks and repairs the disk."
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106214
Then try a Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), run Disk Utility in Applications>Utilities, then highlight your drive, click on Repair Permissions, reboot when it completes.
(Safe boot may stay on the gray radian for a long time, let it go, it's trying to repair the Hard Drive.)
Repair the external/backup drive also. -
Tried to open Private browsing and get message "the url is not valid and cannot be loaded"
up graded Firefox directly from older version to latest version and problem cropped up. Latest version on my laptop which is out of service and in shop works fine and on my net book works fine. Should I have done it in steps?
Start Firefox in <u>[[Safe Mode]]</u> to check if one of the extensions or if hardware acceleration is causing the problem (switch to the DEFAULT theme: Firefox (Tools) > Add-ons > Appearance/Themes).
*Don't make any changes on the Safe mode start window.
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Safe+Mode
*https://support.mozilla.org/kb/Troubleshooting+extensions+and+themes
See also:
*[[/questions/908165]] The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded -
1) I cant seem to restore my data back from Time machine as many files seem Locked. I cant use the Migration app since it doesnt show me my external hard drive when I try to use it. Plus Ive heard that Migration app copies whole drives rather than selecting and copying some folders/data.
2) Even if i use the time machine to restore the data , It does copy on to my mac but that locked symbol is still there .
3) I have read that my drive wont show on migration application cuz the OS should be same before and after the backup and there shouldnt be any difference , otherwise the migration app wont show the drive. This is absurd cuz mostly ppl back up because they want to upgrade their computers . It will never be the same , I mean the OSX , cuz after i have done the back there would have been an upgrade .
Can anyone help Linc Davis .If you mean you're getting the same message:
see #C3 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting. It will show you how to locate the message(s) that describe the problem, then help you fix it. If that doesn't help, post back with details, including all the messages, your setup (especially the destination for the backups), what you've done, and the results.
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Error Message, during installation of Lion; “This disk is not formatted as Mac OS Extended (journaled). Use Disk Utility to enable journaling or reformat the disk.” The disk I selected to install OS X on, was the only one listed, “Macintosh HD”. The results of a Disk Utility check are; Format: Mac OS Extended (journaled), Name: Macintosh HD. There is a fresh Time Machine backup. The computer was Restarted and installation attempted again - same result. I have downloaded Lion a second time, and tired install again, same results. The computer is a December 2007, iMac 24” with 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 4 GB Memory, s/w version 10.7.5; Disk Capacity 319 GB, Available 117 GB. Macintosh HD has alway been the system disk, does it now have an identity crisis? Would reformatting the disk mean Erasing it? Exactly what do I do in Disk Utility to “reformat” the disk, I don’t see that listed on the menus. This computer is getting cranky, I no longer Shut Down at night, only Sleep. If it’s Shut Down, the next morning I am treated to a white screen, for a long time, before it finally shows me the Log On Screen. Suggestions would be appreciated.
RRFS - This took me a long time to finally get to a fix. Your reply led me to investigate the Repair Disk Partition - as it turned out there wasn't one; the HardDrive was going bad slowly. The 10 to 40 minutes it took to startup in the morning, was the HD trying to find it's way. I had the 320GB HD replaced with a 2TB HD. All is OK now. Thank You very much!! Also, the Apple store geeks couldn't make it better but the locally owned Apple retailer did just great with it. from San Luis Obispo County - Peace.
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Ive got an iMac with bootcamp on it. Recently my computer has slowed down and I want to restore it to factory settings. The format says mac osx extended (journaled), but its in grey. Also, the security options and erase buttons are gray. The only button I am able to press is "Erase Free Space." I have a feeling that i might have to delete my bootcamp partition first. What do I do?
To erase the OSX on your harddisk you have to boot your Mac from the OSx Install DVD that came with your Mac.
You can't erase the OSx from which your Mac is booted.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3910
Stefan -
Can I just back up to Time machine, then reformat disk then re down load?
As mende1 stated, the two are different and must be both.
If you open Disk Utility and select the hard drive (the type, size, and serial number), not the volume (Macintosh HD), it will tell you at the bottom of the screen what the Partition Table is. It should be GUID. If not, then you will need to back it up, then repartition the drive. Also, copy the Mountain Lion installer onto another drive so you don't have to download again. It is in the Applications folder.
There are a few methods to get back where you are, including wipe, install old OS, restore from TM, install ML.
You might search the web for a tutorial on creating a boot/install disk using the Mountain Lion installer.
Another easy way is to use something like Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper to clone your current OS onto another drive. Then, boot using the external you cloned. Use Disk Utility to re-partition the internal drive as noted below, then Clone your current OS back to the internal. Then, use the installer you tucked away to reinstall.
If running Snow Leopard, you need to boot using your install disk, then open Disk Utility.
If running Lion, you need to boot into the Recovery HD by holding down cmd-r on restart.
From there, open Disk Utility, select the hard drive, then the Partition tab.
Select 1 partition from the partition layout dropdown (or however you'd like, just don't use current).
Set the Name of the disk. Macintosh HD is the norm, but you can name it anything you want.
Set the Format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
Click the Options Button.
Set the Partition Table to GUID Partition Table.
Back on the partition tab, click Apply. -
Help needed. I have a 3TB external hard drive partitioned into 1TB's. I used one partition as backup for the main computer hard drive. But now it is greyed out as shown in the disk utility and its name changed, i dont know how that happened, i tried verifying and repairing it but had no luck. I also tried mounting and unmounting it but still no solution. Anyone to help please?
Looks bad. I would strongly advise backing up the stuff on the other two partitions as soon as possible in case the rest of the drive goes wrong.
Beyond that, Disk Utility has limited abilities to repair disks, DiskWarrior uses a different approach and might, emphasis might be more successful. It has certainly done the job for me in the past when Disk Utility could not.
See http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/ -
I download rent movie on i tunes,and it was unsucess download,and now it stuck on my download bar but i cannot delete,please advise how to remove it,thanks
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When I repair disk permissions using Disk Utility and it says it's completed the task, I click on it again and it repairs more. This has been going on for hours now. Could there be that many wrong permissions? Should it get to "all repaired" eventually?
It's normal behavior. You don't have to worry about. Most of what's listed is just a report of what the utility finds., not necessarily that there is omething wrong.
If you want to find out more, read the link below, or see the More Like This links on this page.
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I tried partitioning my HD to install linux, the installion was not successful and now I can't boot my mac, I tried internet recovery, it was not helpfull as the disk utility cannot delete the partition I created. It was only showing me an error message "EFI files are missing", I realized that it is trying to boot from the new partition I created for the installation of the linux I intended to do.
It sounds like you may have multiple problems, but none of them are likely to be caused by malware.
First, the internet-related issues may be related to adware or a network compromise. I tend to lean more towards the latter, based on your description of the problem. See:
http://www.adwaremedic.com/kb/baddns.php
http://www.adwaremedic.com/kb/hackedrouter.php
If investigation shows that this is not a network-specific issue, then it's probably adware. See my Adware Removal Guide for help finding and removing it. Note that you mention AdBlock as if it should have prevented this, but it's important to understand that ad blockers do not protect you against adware in any way. Neither would any kind of anti-virus software, which often doesn't detect adware.
As for the other issues, it sounds like you've got some serious corruption. I would be inclined to say it sounds like a failing drive, except it sounds like you just got it replaced. How did you get all your files back after the new drive was installed?
(Fair disclosure: I may receive compensation from links to my sites, TheSafeMac.com and AdwareMedic.com, in the form of buttons allowing for donations. Donations are not required to use my site or software.) -
I have downloaded Maverick but cannot remember administrator password
I have downloaded Maverick but cannot remember my password & I have not got my orinal disc - the version is 10.6.8
Resetting or changing a password:
For Snow Leopard or earlier: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1274
For Lion or later: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6022
This is also useful:
http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipad-iphone/news/?newsid=3463233&olo=email
If it's running Mac OS X 10.6.8 or earlier, insert a Mac OS X install DVD, restart with the Option key held down, click on it, and use the Reset Password utility.
If it's running Mac OS X 10.7 or newer, restart with the Command and R keys held down, open the Terminal, and use the resetpassword command:
https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-4101 -
Trying to uninstall and download itunes keep getting message "the older version of apple software update cannot be removed contact support group. There must be a hidden file I can't find.
Unfortunately, this sort of trouble has gotten more complicated to deal with ever since Microsoft pulled the Windows Installer CleanUp utility from their Download Center on June 25 2010. First we have to find a copy of the utility.
Let's try Googling. (Best not to use Bing, I think.) Look for a working download site for at least version 3.0 of the Windows Installer CleanUp utility. (The results from mydigitallife and Major Geeks are worth checking.)
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