I am planing to format my hard disk on my PC.

I am planing to format my hard disk on my PC . I would like to know the needed preparation to sync my ipod again without losing my saved data.

if you were on a Mac, you'd use a cloning software to make a complete backup of your boot drive to an external, format the internal drive, then clone the clone back to it.
that would ensure everything will be there and your iPod would not note the difference as it is syncing with the same old library.
on a winsloth machine, you could use something like Casper to achieve the same.

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I want to be format my hard disk, but want to take a backup copy of information from the Firefox and passwords and book marks so retrieved after formatThank you

I want to be format my hard disk, but want to take a backup copy of information from the Firefox and passwords and book marks so retrieved after format
Thank you

For backing up bookmarks, see [[Backing up and restoring bookmarks]]
If you want to back up passwords, you need to use an extension such as Password Exporter. This is located at https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2848/ .

HT1349 How to format my hard disk and restart

THis aftrnoon my system wouldn't start. a black screen with OS X utility. Now I want to format my hard disk and install OS. X

Install or Reinstall Mavericks or Mountain Lion from Scratch
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
OS X Mavericks- Erase and reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Erase and reinstall OS X
OS X Lion- Erase and reinstall Mac OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
because it is three times faster than wireless.

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.

How can i download and install lightroom after having formatted the hard disk?

How can I download and install lightroom after having formatted the hard disk?
I have the number of the order.

Lightroom - all versions
Windows
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=113&platform=Windows
Mac
http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/product.jsp?product=113&platform=Macintosh

NTFS formatted external hard disks?

does mountain lion supports writing on NTFS formatted external hard disks?

I'm getting immense slow-downs using Tuxera NTFS (latest release as of August 2012). I moved my home folder to an NTFS shared drive. Reading/writing to the cache while browsing in Safari is slow. Takes about 30 seconds for Finder to open my NTFS drive, takes about 1 minute to open an app and close the app. If I disable Tuxera NTFS and make my drive read-only, everything goes back to snappy performance (except for write-errors, since disabling Tuxera means I can't write to my home folder).
What shocks me the most is that if you visit the Tuxera community forum on their corporate website, none of their support representatives have helped their customers since the release of Tuxera NTFS for OS X Mountain Lion. It's as if the company realized they messed up, so they went silent.
I'm about to try the latest version of Paragon. I had it for OS X Lion, but it corrupted my entire drive after 2 months of use, which is why I tried to give Tuxera a shot. Here's to hoping Paragon has fixed their issues.

HT5628 Is it possible to format entire hard disk and install windows 8 only in mac mini?

Is it possible to format entire hard disk and install windows 8 only in mac mini?

You can, but it's not recommended. If you are going to use Windows all the time, at least give some GBs to OS X, because you will need it to install firmware updates.
Use Boot Camp Assistant to create a Windows partition. You can find it in /Applications/Utilities. Then, follow Apple's steps to install Windows 8 > http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/boot_camp_install-setup_10.8.pdf You must use a 64-bit version, and note that not all Mac minis support Windows 8. Check if yours is supported > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5634?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Boot Camp Assistant will ask you to download the Windows support software onto a USB drive. You will need to install it in Windows, so it's very important to download it. If not, you will have problems in Windows.
If your Mac doesn't support Windows 8, install the Windows version the site gives you

Reinstall but deleting the previous system without formatting the hard disk

HI there, I was wondering if there's a way to reinstall Snow Leopard with the option that Tiger had: install and rename the old system folder and keep existing users. I'm having some issues with my iMac and and don't want to format the hard disk because I don't want to lose some applications and I don't have an external hard disk to make a back up. I tried reinstalling but it seems that it doesn't fix the issues.
Thanks for your help
PERCY

I agree with Allan. However, you should know that with Snow Leopard, a reinstall, not an erase and install, will, by default, give you new system files while retaining everything else. There is no Previous System folder.
I see you already tried that. What issues aren't being fixed?

Can't write to a Windows formatted external hard disk

I moved the Windows XP formatted external hard disc from the Windows machine to the Imac. I can read files on the hard disc, can write from the external to the Mac, and can work with the files once they are on the Mac. But I cannot write to the external. I lack permission, the error message says.
I talked with Apple via my AppleCare arrangement. They tell me I will have to reformat the disc for the Mac before I can write to it.
The problem with the recommendation is that that disc, 160 gb, is over three-quarters filled with backup files for the home network. I can't afford to lose them.
The puzzle is that the network sharing is uneven. So I'm led to think there is some problem with my setup. From the Mac, I can read and write to two Windows computers and the internal hard disc, the C drive, of the third. When the external hard disc was attached to that third computer, I was never able to see it from the Mac.
None of the Windows machines can see the Mac.
Any suggestions?
John
IMac Intel Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.6)

When you go over a network, the Mac doesn't have to worry about writing to the destination disk, it just sends the appropriate TCP/IP packets and lets the PC that is serving the disk worry about writing to the disk. When the disk is connected directly, then the Mac has to know all about writing to that file system.
It does seem to me that if Apple could read from the drive, they should be able to write to it, but apparently that was more complicated and they didn't implement it.
As for the windows boxen not being able to see the Mac... have you considered installing Bonjour for Windows onto the PCs? My wife has PCs and I have Macs, but we're all networked together. We were having some networking issues, trying to share printers. So I had her install Bonjour on one of her boxes. Suddenly, all our networking problems went away. She could see my printers, and all my drive shares.
So you might want to think about turning thinga around and serving off of the Mac.
Doc

How format the hard disk in single-user mode

Hi all, i would like to format the internal hard disk of my macbook pro 13'' through single-user mode. How can I do it, please?

Ok, to do that you need to hold c and boot off the 10.6 installer disk and second screen in under the Utilities Menu is Disk Utility.
You can then select the hard drive makers name (your "bare metal") and peform the wipe/format of the entire drive or a "partition" on that drive.
In the picture below there is only one partition, the Mac HD. In the picture above there are two partitions which both would show up under the hard drive makers name and both or either partition can be wiped in Disk Utility.
Use the Security Option to Zero your hard drive of all lingering data.
When you Quit Disk utiltiy, your back in the installer and can quit or install OS X.
Note: messing with Disk utility will erase all data on the drive, if there is something you need to recover better stop and ask!
If you don't see your internal boot drive in Disk Utility, the drive is dead.

Formatting the Hard Disk with recovery DVD's

I'm having a L505 S5996 laptop and it takes a longer time to boot. So I thought to format the HD and install a fresh copy of windows and other drivers from my recovery dvds.There is only one HD partition in my laptop but when I open the disk management window it shows three HD partitions. These two hidden partitions are named as "Recovery Partitions". So I want to know the formatting of HD will result in erasing all these hard disk partitions(including the hidden partitions) in my laptop. If so please tell me the correct way of formatting the HD without loosing pre-installed image of Windows.

if you want to return it back to factory. as in exactly how it was when you opened the box and turned it on. you can select recovery to factory out of box when you either run the recovery media or hold zero during boot and use the recovery partitions.
-civicman4-
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Post all info about your laptop and version of windows. We are working on it but still do not have the powers to read your mind.

I formatted my hard disk, and I want to...

I erased all the hard disk, I want to return all the music to my pc, in the moment I connect the iPod to PC, suddenly I open the folder where is the I pod from the "C" drive, so... I drag the folder from the iPod to the pc , and the name song is changed... now my question...
Do you know a way to don´t lose the song names?
What Can I do to return the music to my pc in a easy way?
Is there a secret?I don´t wanna lose my music from my iPod, because is the only place where I got them.
thanks.
window Windows XP

If you have any iTMS purchases the transfer of purchased content from the iPod to authorised computers has been introduced with iTunes 7. A paragraph on it has been added to this article: Transfer iTunes Store purchases using iPod
The transfer of non iTMS content such as songs imported from CD is designed by default to be one way from iTunes to iPod. However there is a manual method of accessing the iPod's hard drive and copying songs back to iTunes on Windows. The procedure is a bit involved and it won't recover playlists but if you're interested it's posted in this thread: MacMuse - iPod to iTunes
If you prefer something more automated then there are a number of third party utilities that you can use to retrieve the music files and playlists from your iPod. This is just a selection, you'll find that they have varying degrees of functionality and some will transfer movies, videos, photos and games as well. Have a look at the web pages and documentation, they are generally quite straightforward. You can also read reviews of some of them here: Wired News - Rescue Your Stranded Tunes
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iPod Access Mac and Windows Versions
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Format my hard disk.Unfortunately I have lost Aperture cover and bill from Apple.How to find serial no. of Aperture ?

fI have Aperture cd from Apple Store.Due to some reason I have toformat my hard disk.Unfortunately I have lost Aperture cover and bill from Apple.How to find serial no. of Aperture ?

Is it installed on an other system? If so you can see the serial number in the About Aperture window.
If not ant you wiped your disk and Aperture is no longer installed there is no way to find the serial number apart from the hard copy you had when you bought it.
See Pro Application Replacement Serial Numbers and give Apple a call. They are pretty good at working with you to try and recover the serial number.

Finder cannot searching for NTFS formatted external hard disk

MacBookAir,1.8GhZ,Memory 4GB1600 MHz DDR3
osx10.9.3
Finder can show and open the files from the external hard disk but can not searching for the files.

Barney-15E wrote:
Tuxera or paragon will give you write access, but I don't know if that will allow Spotlight to work on those drives.
A brief experiment suggests that Spotlight does not index an NTFS volume driven by Paragon NTFS. I don't have a copy of Tuxera to test.
Sorry, cchaikittiporn. Paragon does not seem to be a solution for your issue.

Time taken to format external hard disk

I have just purchased a 1T external hard drive and now using the erase disk to reformat from FAT-32 to Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
I let this run over night (8 hours), however in the morning it still had not finished. As I thought it may have frozen I went to Finder & force quit the disk utility function. I have now started again after reading other posts, but I' can't seem to find anyway giving me an indication of how long this should take. Any suggestions??
Also, I have not used any of the security options.

Normally a reformat to Mac format takes about a minute, maybe less. Do you have one of the options turned on to "zero all data" or one of the other heavy duty "kill all data" check boxes selected when formatting?
Patrick

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