Lion STARTUP disk

I have lion and want to run the disk repair tool, but it says I need a boot disk. Since I downloaded Lion and don't have a boot disk, what do I do?

Usually it creates a separate repair partition on your drive. Start-up while holding the option key.

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MacBook Pro running OS X Lion startup disk is full.

I am running OS X Lion on my startup disk is full. I checked my strorage in the about this mac window. 49.72GB of my HD space is taken up by Other. Also in Disk Utility under the partiton almost the entire rectangle is light blue. I am worried that my MacBook is to old to run the software. I use my machine to run Adobe CS4. The error turns up when I run photoshop so I am unable to run the program at all. Please Help!

Here is the link which was screwed up by the iCloud/Mobile Me transition.
1 this is the index go to 30 http://Pondini.org/TM/FAQ.html
This worked for me from a google search http://web.me.com/pondini/Time_Machine/30.html
http://Pondini.org/TM/30.html

How to move Startup Disk clone from one external drive to another?

I thought this would be a question easily answered on the WWW and easily found via search engines, but so far no luck, hence this question.
Prior to upgrading from Lion to Mountain Lion I followed some very good instructions from Tom Nelson on ask.com (http://macs.about.com/od/backupsarchives/ss/diskbackup.htm) related to using Disk Utility to clone my internal Macintosh HD drive to an external hard drive, making it a bootable drive. I cloned to a very nice LaCie external FW drive that had far more room than that needed for the clone. This drive booted just fine as a startup disk, so mission accomplished:   I have now a bootable clone of my Lion system prior to upgrading to Mountain Lion.
The upgrade to Mountain Lion went well, and now, before I put any additional apps or much additional data on the original internal Macintosh HD drive, I want to use Disk Utility again to clone the drive so I'll have a snapshot of the system right after the upgrade to Mountain Lion.
Questions:
Is there any way to use the same LaCie drive that now holds the Lion startup disk clone to hold the yet-to-be-done Mountain Lion startup disk clone?
If not, how can I move the Lion startup disk clone from the oversized LaCie external drive to a drive more the size of the Lion clone (approx 140G)?   The LaCie drive is far too roomy and nice to have sitting gathering dust for only 140G to be used in an emergency restore.
Thanks in advance for your advice.

Good info Csound1, and thanks.
So my final question (I think): How does one move/copy a startup disk clone from one external drive to another, and still have it bootable on the new external drive?   I'm still considering freeing this LaCie drive up for more dynamic storage and getting another drive for the bootable startup disk clones IF I can move this Lion startup disk clone to a new external drive.
I guess the summary question is:   how does one clone a startup disk clone? As I think about this, and recall the Disk Utility screens, couldn't I simply select the Lion clone on the LaCie FW external drive and do the same operation I did with the original internal Lion drive? Basically the same steps as before but this time the source is the LaCie FW external and the destination is a new external drive?
Thanks again; wonderful forum here with very smart people.

HT4718 Can't make a startup disk.

I've tried to make a Lion startup disk using a brand new 8GB flash drive and the restore option. Followed instructions as to reformatting, etc. and got an error: cannot restore - illegal argument. Tried thee separate times - the last time got clear down to 'verifying - less than one minute' and then the failure to restore. Then tried to install Lion on the flash drive (8GB) and got the message:"Not enough space. needs 500MB more."
What now?

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Create Lion startup on Sandisk Cruzer?

I'd like to create a Lion startup disk on an 8GB Sandisk Cruzer USB flash drive for the sole purpose of running Disk Warrior on my main startup drive without having to boot from the DW DVD (which is painfully slow).
Suggestions?
I have re-partitioned the Cruzer with one (1) GUID partition, and Disk Utility indicates it has a capacity of 7.14GB, with 7.63GB available (yes, that's not a typo), and that the GUID partition is only 7.14GB. I am wondering why the single partition can't use more of the flash drive.
I created an installation of Lion on a 80GB USB drive, then added Disk Warrior, but because of the smaller partition, I have been unable to use DU to "Restore" from the "utility system" to the flash drive.
Ideas?

I have three of those little flash drives, all SandDisk Cruzers. I simply connected them, opened Disk Utility, and immediately formatted them. I did not bother to check if there was anything on the drive since I was not interested in it. I then used the instructions to create a bootable Lion install on one and the recovery assistant on the second (the third is brand new and I just formatted it - see screenshots below). There were/are no Sandisk folders on my hard drive, nor did I have a problem formatting them or using the restore function.
For the OP:
Initial screenshot:
After formatting:
(the disk1s1 is greyed out - not mounted - contains several MB of files and is named EFI, so that is the firmware. This results in the "regular" disk to only have 7.63 GB available).

Disk Utility Repair on 10.7 w/o Lion install disk

I ran the Disk Utility and got the message "This disk needs to be repaired. Startup your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk." My iMac is a couple of years old and came with Snow Leopard OS, however I have upgraded to Lion. So here is my question: will Disk Utility properly repair a Lion startup disk (i.e. my hard drive) using a snow leopard OS installation disk as the start up volume? Here's another twist: can I create a new Lion startup volume to run Disk Utility from that? Thanks in advance and Happy New Year.

Try this:
Restart while holding command-r until you see the Apple. This should put you into the "Recovery Partition" from which you can run Disk Utility.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
charlie

TS1702 how do i delete from the startup disk? I am trying to get Mountain Lion from the App store and it says that the purchase was not complete because i need 4.06 GB space to download OS x 10.8. and to remove items from my startup disk to increase space

how do i delete from the startup disk? I am trying to get Mountain Lion from the App store and it says that the purchase was not complete because i need 4.06 GB space to download OS x 10.8. and to remove items from my startup disk to increase space. How?
Thanks

You can use iCloud with 10.7.5. You do not need to upgrade to Yosemite. You should provide a minimum of 15 GBs of free space or 10% of the hard drive's capacity, whichever is greater.
Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

Why can't lion sea my startup disk

Whi is lion having truble finding my startup disk????
I inslalled lion when it came out da few weeks ago and it seemd to be running fine untill last week when it got querky, I decided to shut down and restart to give the OS time to think about what it had done wrong. On restarty and a few times subsequently it could not find the startup disk, and had to be foced to retart 2 or three times and final would only find the sart up disk buy using an option restart... no good any thoughts?

See if its selected in ->Preferences->Startup Disk:

Many of my System Preferences will no longer work after installing Mountain Lion. Software update, startup disk, iCloud, etc. no longer will launch. I keep getting a drop down window saying I must restart system preferences in order to use. No go!

Many of my System Preferences will no longer work after installing Mountain Lion. Software Update, Startup Disk, iCloud, Time Machine, Notifications, etc. no longer will launch even though they do show their icons in the system preferences window. I keep getting a drop down window saying I must restart system preferences in order to use with a "Cancel" or "OK" choice. After I click on "OK" the window just keeps reappearing with the same choices and the pane I wish to use still remains inoperative. Third party preference panes DO work.
Reinstalling OSX Mountain Lion did not help. Neither did throwing away preferences.plist.

Hi Jeff,
Tried to reply with my iPhone but not easy! Anyway, back on the laptop now. Yes the crash was bad but Tek support at Prism Sound was really good. In the end I rebuilt the whole system on a new disk which took a couple of days with all the plugins, softsynths etc.... but there seemed to be no alternative in my case, and this was agreed with Prism sound as being the only alternative left to me. I still don't really know what caused the crash but ML and Orpheus are both working fine now. Let's face it, you'll have to update at sometime..maybe best to pick some time between projects On balance, I suspect that my problems were unique to my system and that your installation will go ok.
Hope it goes well,
Rick

I can't find startup disk in Mac OS X Lion window

While performing the following instructions, I coudn't get through step 4 since there is no startup disk appearing in the pane ??
OS X Mavericks: Reinstall OS X
Use the built-in recovery disk to reinstall OS X while keeping your files and user settings intact.
Important: You must be connected to the Internet to reinstall OS X.
Choose Apple menu > Restart. Once your Mac restarts (and the gray screen appears), hold down the Command (⌘) and R keys.
If you’re not connected to the Internet, choose a network from the Wi-Fi menu (in the top-right corner of the screen).
Select Reinstall OS X, then click Continue.
Follow the onscreen instructions. In the pane where you select a disk, select your current OS X disk (in most cases, it’s the only one available).

Marc Chabot wrote:
MacBook Pro (13-inch, Early 2011)...
Since your MBP came with Snow Leopard (OS 10.6.x) and you're referring to the Mac OS Lion window in Recovery Mode, do you have Mavericks currently installed or Lion? If you boot and hold down the Option Key after the chime, you'll invoke Startup Manager and you should see a row of bootable partitions. The Recovery Partition should say what the operating system number is (e.g., 10.7.5, 10.8.3). If it's 10.7.x, which is Lion, and you've already installed Mavericks, the issue may be that you can't install an older OS (Lion) directly over a newer OS (Mavericks).

Lion Asks Me to Select a Startup Disk Each Restart, why?

Every time I restart LIon, it asks me to select a startup disk, as if I was holding down the option key.
Thing is, I'm not.
In system prefereces, I've selected the internal harddrive as the startup disk, but it makes no difference. It still asks me to choose between the Lion Disk, the recovery partition, and a backup clone I have connected.
Obviously, I want to stop this behavior. How can I do it?

I get:
finderinfo[0]:    116 => Blessed System Folder is /System/Library/CoreServices
finderinfo[1]: 280701 => Blessed System File is /System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi
finderinfo[2]:      0 => Open-folder linked list empty
finderinfo[3]:      0 => No alternate OS blessed file/folder
finderinfo[4]:      0 => Unused field unset
finderinfo[5]:    116 => OS X blessed folder is /System/Library/CoreServices
64-bit VSDB volume id: 0xD30F967B6B2A99DF
Anything off there? (I not only want to fix it, but understand what's wrong)
Does that mean I should try the second command?

Why does my mac show in Startup Disk section of System Preferences that I have OS X Lion Server?

I have bought my Macbook pro half a year ago and I have recently installed Windows 7 on it in addition to OS X Lion. The problem is that Startup Disk in System Preferences shows that I have a Server version, while I don't. How can it be possible? And is it possible to fix it?

You should post that on the Boot Camp forum, that is where all the Boot Camp and Windows guys hang out.
Good luck.

Does Lion support having the applications folder and the User folders on a separate disk (other than the startup disk)?

Is it possible to Install Lion while having the Application Folder and/or the User Folder on separate drives (other than the startup disk) Leopard didn't really support this as it would have errors with e-mail and other services that where not stored directly on the startup disk.

It's possible, but don't put the Applications folder elsewhere, and keep at least a miminal Admin account on your startup drive (so you can still log on to do troubleshooting, etc., if there's a problem with the other drive).
Many apps are expected to be in the Applications folder on the OSX drive; they may not work on a different drive and/or may not be found or updated when updates are available. Apple and Adobe apps, especially, are subject to this. Don't put them in folders, either, as similar things may happen.
Besides, apps don't take up much space anyway, it's the data that may.
It's often better to keep the home folders on the OSX drive, but put large data folders on a separate drive, such as iPhoto, iTunes, or large video collections.

Stuck in recovery, I cant re-install lion, I cant select startup disk.

My imac was running terribly suddenly today. So I thought I might try seeing if a re-install of Lion would help. I booted into recovery, downloaded Lion again and proceded with the install. I came back to find it had an error, tried to reboot. It goes right back to trying to install.
After several tries of installing I gave up, ran disk utility, checked the disk, fixed permissions. Tried to select the startup disk to reboot and I cant.

You may need to start from the beginning, start you Mac with the original DVD that came with the computer and then open disk utility, see if your disk shows up in the left window. If you do not see your hard drive is bad. If you can see it then you may need to format it then reinstall Mac OS X 10.6 then update to Mac OS X 10.7. Do you have a Time Machine backup?

Why is my Macbook pro with OS lion prompting me my startup disk almost full when i have deleted many files, photos and videos? Even thrashing them doesn't help. There seems to be an automatic space usage in the background

I have deleted many unwanted files and apps and yet the available space keeps depleting every time i am using my Macbook Pro. I believe under the OS 10.7.4 one of the features is it backups or has backgrounding features which uses memory. Sometimes even when i hv 8GB space after using my Macbook Pro for say 2hrs surfing internet and using Pages which has a "Save Version" feature suddenly my 8GB goes down to 300+MB only and it starts prompting me "My Startup Disk is almost full" once it reaches 1GB space left. How can i get more space.... Please someone can help me? Do i need to re-format my hardisk??!! Any help out there is greatly appreciated.
My original HD is 320GB. And i don't hv too many Apps installed. I do have abt 50-70apps. I do have many photos and videos stored in iPhoto's Library though.

One thing I've noticed is that a shared tab pops up when I open the finder under "favorites" with a random connection. It's called hp68b... None of my friends that I live with have this and we all use the same internet. Two days ago when I would click it and click get info, it said it was a pc. When I checked it today it said it is a "sharepoint" and looks like a harddrive.
I took it too the store after i spilt water on it but when I got it back it ran perfectly fine. I don't know a lot about computer so if somebody could help me. It says I'm connected to it and I can't disconnect or delete it. I don't know if the guy at the computer store put something in my computer and is sharing all my files.

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