Installing Mountain Lion on BLANK hard disk that says I need more space
I'm trying to reinstall Mountain Lion to a blank hard disk. It stops during install and says I need 4.2G more space and suggests I free some up. It's a blank hard disk, all I have access to is Disk Utility. How do I free up space?
Did you format the blank disk and add a partition?
Can you provide a screen shot of Disk Utility?
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How to install Mountain Lion on blank hard drive
I bought a used macbook with the understanding that the hard drive crashed and I had to completely replace it. I've bought and installed a new, blank hard drive in the macbook and I was wondering if I could purchase mountain lion from the apple store and install it on a completely blank hard drive. When I first booted it up, it takes to to a screen that asks me for my wifi password and has an icon for internet recovery. I've clicked on it and after a while it shows me a globe with a question mark and the website for apple support. Please tell me I haven't already messed it up :S
You need to install Snow Leopard or Lion first to install Mountain Lion online via Mac App Store.
http://store.apple.com/us/search/snowleopard#! -
Cannot install Mountain Lion on my hard disc, as I keep getting the message" 'This disk is used for Time Machine backups'. Which it isn't - I don't use Time Machine
Check to see if you have a folder named "Backups.backupdb" at the root level of your hard disk. That can cause this error message.
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I could cry right now. After decades of being an Apple fan, something is happening for the worse and issues with every Apple product I own 2 iphones, 2 iMacs, 15" Macbook Pro, and iPad Mini (no issues here, just slow connecting to App Store and can never seem to download updates) has left me disenchanted. I do have a question about Mountain Lion but just airing out grievances.
Ok, to the point. I have the new 27" iMac that was just released. Was delivered and opened the box, turned it on, and there was a flashing folder icon. No OS, wonderful. I live in Brooklyn and not trying to lug a 27" computer onto the train nor should I have to pay for a cab to resolve this. Anyway, I tried to go into Recovery but it started doing an Internet Recovery with a download time of 9 hours. Um, no thanks. So I downloaded the latest version of Mountain Lion from the App store on my old iMac and made a boot disk onto an external via Apples instructions. Plugged it into new iMac lemon, go into recovery mode, see the bootable drive, click on it to reinstall and it gives me a crossed out circle icon and shuts down.
What am I doing wrong? I have pretty decent broadband and did start the internet recovery process now until I find a better solution online. After 5 hours, Internet recovery finished and clicked on Reinstall Mountain Lion to which it's asking me to download the OS again and with a 13 hour download time!!!! What's going on here? What was the purpose of internet recovery taking 5 hours only to download it again at another 13 hours???
Question is, is there something I should be doing differently? Is there a way to install Mountain Lion from a bootable disk? This is mind blowingly the dumbest thing I've encountered with Apple. Got a problem with your OS? No problem, just download a 4.4GB file every incident.
Thank you.You can't grab a installer from another Mac and expect it to run. The newer Macs have newer hardware which requires special drivers. If the version that boots the iMac is a special build, it won't work any other way than Internet Recovery.
If it was me, I'd take it right back. You have no idea if the OS is just corrupted, the hard drive is dead, or what. I wouldn't take my chances with it. -
Unable to install Mountain Lion on my hard drive
I'm trying to upgrade my early 2008 mac pro from Leopard to Mountain Lion using a bootable usb drive but I'm having trouble doing so. When I try installing mountain lion to my hard drive (Mac Drive 1) - The hard drive is greyed out and says 'you can't upgrade this version of OS X'. Yet it looks like I can install mountain lion onto my second hard drive (Mac Drive 2) for some odd reason.
Here's the details for my mac drive 1 which I'm having trouble with (I noticed the volume format is greyed out on disk utility as well).....
And here's the mac drive 2 info which I don't want to install mountain lion onto but looks like I can....
Any help would be much appreciated! Thanks a lot.I can't answer the bad hard drive question without some guessing. Not that smart.
Do you have a bootable copy of the Mountain Lion installer?
If not download the following. The site says it will work with 10.6:
http://blog.gete.net/lion-diskmaker-us/
That program will allow you to make a bootable DVD or USB with Mountain Lion on it.
You can boot off of it, erase the disk, and then install Mountain Lion.
I think you should be able to reinstall from carbon copy cloner, but I haven't used that program. During the setup it will ask you if you want to import files, but I don't know if it can read carbon copy cloner. I know it can read a Time Machine backup.
A clean install is generally better anyway.
If you get Mountain Lion installed, not everything works like it did in 10.5/10.6. For an example, scrolling is reversed, but you can change it back to the way it is in 10.5/10.6 in System Preferences. After spending some time in System Preferences, my computer acts pretty much the way it always did. -
Ive just upgraded my late 2009 macbook, and things are not working properly. First of all, when I started the computer first time after installing Mountain Lion, some message advised me that some files were impossible to install. Once I wrote my password, and for now on, everytime I start the session, another window advise me that "Java SE 6" is missing, due that, the computer can't run some "CS5Service Manager". If I try to install it, the download ends with an error. If finally, you skip the istallation, you arrive to the dock, but the menu bar at the top of the screen doesn't show up.
In addition, my trackpad doesn't works either. I can move the arrow but i can't click anywhere, probably because the option of clicking by touching is disabeled and I can't performance a regular click.
I'll be very glad if someone know what the heck is happening with my computer. Anyway, I'm going to the genius bar next Saturday. Thx!We're sorry.
We can't find the article you're looking for.
Please return to the Apple Support homepage.
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Hi, every time I attempt to purchase OXS Mountain Lion I get a message that says unable to complete your purchase because "The product distribution file could not be verified. It may be damaged or was not signed." Any idea what I am doing wrong, cheers.
Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Press Shift key on boot and purchase OS X 10.8 -
Ok i currently have Lion on my early 2011 15" MBP. When i try to install Mountain Lion to my mac HD it keeps telling me I cannot because its used for time machine backups. I have done a search and I know I have to delete the backups.backupdb folder but I cannot find it for the life of me. If anyone can help I would really appreciate, thanks!
NikIf you double-click on your hard drive icon the Backups.backupd folder should be on the root level of your drive. Sometimes OS X gets confused and incorrectly puts a Backups.backupd folder on your hard drive. That folder should only appear on a drive used for Time Machine
If you can't find the Backups.backupd folder try using the free EasyFind with both Package Contents and Invisible Files & Folders checked. Search for "Backups.backupd" without the quotes on your hard drive (default selection), not your Time Machine drive. Right-click on the search result and choose to Reveal in Finder. Click on the link that kisuke3 provided and follow those directions
If you can't find a Backups.backupd folder anywhere try booting into Safe Mode by holding down the Shift key right after you hear the startup chime. Keep holding the Shift key down until you see the Apple Logo. The progress bar that appears indicates the progress of the file check that Safe Mode automatically does. Give it time to finish.
Reboot normally and see if the ML installer will work. If it does wait until Spotlight is finishing indexing before turning Time Machine back on. -
How do install Java on my iMac now that I am running Mountain Lion? It was on my iMac before, but has now disappeared.
You ought to get a dialog asking to install the first time you run an app that needs it
Details here:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1167855/installing_mountain_lion_what_you_need_t o_know.html
The relevant bit is this:
Note that the first time you try to load a webpage or run an app that requires Java, Mountain Lion will prompt you to download and install the Java runtime, even if you upgraded from Snow Leopard or Lion and you’d previously installed Java. This is normal—you shouldn’t worry that installing Mountain Lion somehow “lost” any of your data or apps.
Or you can go to the Apple Downloads page and search for Java -
I have just installed Mountain Lion and received a message "speech synthesis server.app could not be opened because it is damaged or incomplete", please can you advise me what to do next? Thanks
Something went wrong with your upgrade.
Back up all data, then reinstall the OS. You don't need to erase the startup volume, and you won't need your backup unless something goes wrong. If your Mac was upgraded from an older version of OS X, you’ll need the Apple ID and password you used to upgrade.
If you installed the Java runtime distributed by Apple and still need it, you'll have to reinstall it. -
After installing Mountain Lion. No sound. Under sound, where it says select an output device, it says no output devices found, and there is no sound. How do I fix this? I have reinstalled the os twice and still the same. I have also repaired permissions.
Try resetting the PRAM and SMC...
PRAM Reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
SMC Reset:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3964
Hope this helps! -
trying to purchase lion. get an error msg that says i must have a duel core processor to buy.I have a 2.16 GHz Intel Core Due
A Core Duo is not a dual core Processor. What you need is a Core 2 Duo.
Regards
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Mountain Lion damaged my hard disk
I tried installing ML in my iMac running Snow Leopard, and I also got the hard disk damage problem.
It seems some people that were running Lion have been able to run de Disk Utility booting from the Recover Partition, which is not featured in Snow Leopard.
I also saw people suggesting to use Disk Warrior or Tech Tool Pro to recover the disk, but haven't heard of any positive feedback and I am not paying to solve a problem I did not create.
This seems like a major bug in Mountain Lion so far being ignored by Apple. I have heard of people taking their computers to technical support and the people at Apple suggesting to replace the hard disk, which is a pretty convenient solution, since they are not the ones losing their files.
If the installation of ML not even started, how come I cannot switch back to my status quo and boot normally in my Snow Leopard? I am really disappointed about this situation and I would like to hear from people who were able to recover their computers from Snow Leopard, especially people at Apple that seem to be silent about this problem so far.hpr3, I understand your point that maybe my disk might already have a prior issue, but it doesn't seem a coincidence to me that many others have had the same problem upgrading to ML and suddently had their disks crashed.
It's not a coincidence, but neither is it the fault of ML. A drive that is slightly corrupt can, when a major system upgrade writes tens of thousands of files, become very badly damaged, corrupting the system and potentially user data. It happens to some people with every system upgrade and update.
I did not run the disk utility before the upgrade. I would expect the ML installation to do it before permanently compromising my disk.
That's the way it's supposed to work. Many people with problems end up being told that they can't install because the disk can't be repaired. However, some problems manage to persist. No disk repair tool is perfect.
Utlimately, although you say you're not paying to fix a problem you didn't create, you did create the problem by not having backups. Backups are a responsibility every computer user has, regardless of OS. If you had backups, the fix would be simple and cheap.... erase the hard drive and restore from backup. Since you don't, you will end up spending some time and possibly money resolving the problems, and you may not see some of your data again. If the problem is fixable, DiskWarrior can likely fix it. (It doesn't try to repair the directory structures, it simply rebuilds them from scratch.)
It would be wise to try to back up what you can before doing that, but that will be tricky with a damaged drive. You could try connecting to another Mac using Firewire target mode, and copy what you can that way... but you're likely to have some errors interrupt the process. You could also try using Disk Utility's Restore pane to copy the disk to another hard drive, but again, the errors are likely to complicate things. You could also try copying vital files with the Terminal while in recovery mode, if you know how to use Unix commands. -
Can't install mountain lion onto new hard drive after old one had to be replaced
My macbook pro, purchased 12/11, had a faulty hard drive. We thankfully were still under warranty and had it replaced. I then accessed the old drive via USB connector to reinstall my pictures and some file folders and apps to the new hard drive. Now I am trying to reinstall the mountain lion update, and it says I can't install the the hard drive that appears as a choice as I use it for time machine backups? Also, when the laptop tries to do a time machine backup, that stalls out as it says the hard drive is on the do not back up list, which incidentally won't let me select it to take it off of the do not back up list. Help!!!
Have you followed these instructions, specifically formatting your new HDD?
http://support.apple.com/kb/ph11273
Ciao. -
What is speechsynthesisserver.app? Twice I received a message from Mountain Lion that this could not be installed due to an error. Is this significant?
Regarding the scrolling, SYSTEM PREFERENCES>TRACKPAD>SCROLL & ZOOM, uncheck 'Scroll direction: natural.
Ciao.
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