Lost startup disk!

I lost the OSX installer CD for my iBook, and I need it to repair my hard drive. How can I get a new one?

you can call apple and they can set it up to send you a new one. It will cost somewhere around $20 i think

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Mac Book White with lost startup disks

I gave my daughter my white Macbook and I believe her mother has lost the startup disks. In cleaning the mac for her I delete itunes and some important files to allow Itunes to be reinstalled. Is there a way to utilize my MacBook Aluminum to help restore the white Macbook to get Itunes reinstalled?

I called Apple Customer Support (1- (800) 767-2775) to check on how much they charge for the gray restore disks that originally came with the MacBook and was quoted $16 dollars per disk plus S & H. Which would be $32 for the two disks. Just give them the serial number of your MacBook and they'll know which ones you need.
You could try the #2 disk from your aluminum MacBook to see if it will work. You can't use the #1 disk to reinstall the OS but maybe you can use the #2 to reinstall iLife.

Lost Startup Disk..Need to Change Password

I bought my iBook G4 from a friend. He went to Iraq and has the startup disk and the admin password...and no way to reach him... How can I change the system without having to take it to get the drive reformatted. i really dont want to do that because he left Adobe Photoshop CS on here and I know how much it would cost to go out and by it myself. Is there anywhere i can get the startup disk or something?

You can call AppleCare Support and ask for a set of replacement disks. They usually charge around $60 to replace a set of lost disks.
-Doug

Lost Startup Disk in Mac OS X Leopard

Hi. I've been using leopard with windows vista for a long time now. I recently installed a software by paragon that would allow my mac to write to the ntfs partition. I noticed that after doing this (it might not have been directly caused by the software though), that the windows vista partition no longer showed up as an option under startup disk in leopard. I am however still able to boot to vista using the alt key when the mac starts up. I removed the paragon software and it didn't fix the problem.. I tired correcting the hard drive permissions and repairing the disk, but neither of them fixed the issue. Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can get the vista partition back under Startup Disk?
Thanks
John

I don't think it was cause and effect or related. Could be but I don't recall seeing Vista in startup disk since Leopard.
I have Paragon, but it seems to be buggy and slows down Finder. It also may have led to data corruption on Vista. The MacFuse etc NTFS is probably better method right now.
Some users can't see Vista from OPTION/ALT on their systems but DO see Vista in the control panel Startup Disk.
Booting from my Tiger 10.4.6 and Leopard DVD weren't able to see Vista partition as available in Utilities: Startup Disk so that pretty much rules out Paragon.
I'm still looking for how. Luckily I can just pull my OS X drive or boot OS X from external drives anyway and leave Vista along with NTFS data drive and 3rd for page, cache, and other odds and ends.
Vista w/ SP1 RC1 boots faster now. You might want to check it out.

My Macbook has lost startup partition (Macintosh HD)

Dear Everyone,
My Macbook Pro (15" mid-2012) have lost startup disk partition after Yosemite-installation.
I recently got OS upgrade to 10.10 Yosemite without an event. Some features ofYosemite pertaining to the R and LaTeX disappointed me and after a few hours I decided to come back to Mavericks. Disaster began:
To recover a disk using Time Machine, Macbook was re-booted with pressing Option key.
Just after pressing a line titled `restore from Time Machine,' my system answered `no target disk' or `invalid disk' or else. And stops all thing.
Disk Utility shows a bizzare partition table. The partition `Aswan (Macintosh HD)' still exists, but stands for only `logical volume group' with no corresponding disk image. It cannot be erased or re-partitioned!
When attempting to re-install (any version of) OS X, the system cannot find the main disk Aswan.
Please help.
Thank you.
Younsuk.

Dear Everyone,
My Macbook Pro (15" mid-2012) have lost startup disk partition after Yosemite-installation.
I recently got OS upgrade to 10.10 Yosemite without an event. Some features ofYosemite pertaining to the R and LaTeX disappointed me and after a few hours I decided to come back to Mavericks. Disaster began:
To recover a disk using Time Machine, Macbook was re-booted with pressing Option key.
Just after pressing a line titled `restore from Time Machine,' my system answered `no target disk' or `invalid disk' or else. And stops all thing.
Disk Utility shows a bizzare partition table. The partition `Aswan (Macintosh HD)' still exists, but stands for only `logical volume group' with no corresponding disk image. It cannot be erased or re-partitioned!
When attempting to re-install (any version of) OS X, the system cannot find the main disk Aswan.
Please help.
Thank you.
Younsuk.

G4 won't boot from startup disk, disk utility can't repair, is all lost?

My G4 will not boot from the startup disk which is my second hard drive a 160GB. That's been my startup disk for the past 3 years. I tried running disk utilities, but get the error message "underlying task reported a failure on exit." "Invalid key length." "Volume check failed." "Disk repair failed."
I've tried loading in safe mode, and fsck (or something like that) nothing has worked. When I did force start by holding down the "x" key, the second hard drive image was on my desktop, but when I clicked it-it did not have any current information or files. Is everything lost? Is there a way to boot this hard drive or save all of my photos and music?
Thanks in advance for the help.

DiskWarrior can probably fix your problem. DiskWarrior by Alsoft
http://www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/index.html
 Cheers, Tom

I have just updated to OS X 10.9 on my iMac and have lost my Startup Disk... how do I get it back?

I have just updated to OS X 10.9 on my iMac and have lost my Startup Disk... how do I get it back?

The storage level is held on the server so signing out of your iCloud on your Mac wouldn't affect it; and you can't delete an iCloud account from the server.
Are you absolutely sure that when you signed back in you signed in with the same Apple ID as before, and didn't create a new iCloud account by accident (because it does sound as if that is what has happened).
If you are sure about this then only Support can unravel it for you. Go to https://getsupport.apple.com ; click 'See all products and services', then ' 'iTunes', and then 'iTunes Store', then 'Purchases, Billing & Redemption'.

Lost icon for Startup Disk in System Preferences panel

Last week i noticed that the icon for my Startup Disk doesn't display correctly in the System Preferences panel.
I've uploaded a screenshot of my System Preferences here:
http://www.solidgold.fi/img/systemprefs.jpg
You'll see the messed up icon between Speech and Universal Access.
Any ideas what can be causing this?
Thanks in advance!
Cheers,
Pablo
MacBook Pro Mac OS X (10.4.8) 2 GHz

You're most welcome. Glad to help!
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Both time machine drive and startup disk can't be repaired by disk utilities and needs to be formatted!!??

ok so i accidentally remove the USB while my laptop was backing up to the time machine partition on my external HDD. I plug it in again, and no time machine partition. just the other part (fat 32 partition). so i open disk utilities.. the partition is there but grayed out. so I repair it.. and it says it cant repair it i need to back it up and format it. ok great.. i tried to do that and it said it can't access the disk.. super.
any way.. i don't know why i decided to check my other drives and see how they're doing.. and it turns out.. my startup disk has problems.. and you guessed it.. it can not be repaired:D so i restart in recovery mode.. did it again.. and? it can't be repaired.. i need to backup the drive and format it... (like the same problem with the time machine partition) just great! so i restart the laptop.. it safe boots.. I dnno why.. and everything is like it was.. I mean I don't see a problem with my drive.. i can do everything but that "cant repair" thing is scaring me.. what should I do? just leave it? or brace myself for a possible HDD death? I DON'T EVEN HAVE A BACKUP)
help me i feel vulnerable

As you have indicated, you don’t want to touch the partitions on your existing external drive because it has live files in the FAT32 partition for which there are no copies anywhere else. That leaves you with two sets of data that are currently not backed up: your FAT32 partition and your system drive. I suggest you need at least one more external HD for backups.
A “backup” drive should never have live files on it because should that drive fail all the live files on it would be lost. So you need a second external HD anyway for a proper backup scheme.
I would partition a new disk as you have the current one and then copy all the FAT32 files form the old disk to the new one. Then you can try repartitioning the old drive. I would then setup a backup scheme to periodically clone the new FAT32 drive onto the old FAT32 one, using the new disk for your live FAT32 files and dedicating the old disk to backups. You could also continue using the old disk for Time Machine backups.
You can use Mac cloning software such as Carbon Copy Cloner to maintain the cloned backup copy of your FAT32 data.
http://help.bombich.com/kb/usage-scenarios/backing-up-tofrom-network-volumes-and -other-non-hfs-volumes

Where can I find a startup disk for Powermac 7600?

When I tried to boot my powermac 7600 i received the '?' icon in the center of the screen. So I thought I would try to boot from the startup disk. Uh-Oh, I seem to have lost my startup disk to my powermac 7600. Where can I find a start up disk? Or is their another way around the issue?

A Disk Tools PPC file can be found via Apple's Older Software Downloads list (http://www.info.apple.com/support/oldersoftwarelist.html).
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English -North_American/Macintosh/System/Mac_OS_8.1_Update/Disk_Tools_PPC.img.bin
A floppy from the above file should work as a startup disk for your computer (it is intended for Mac OS 8.1 and Mac OS Extended, but it should at least allow you to boot the 7600). However, the problem is that you would have to locate someone with another old (pre-1998) Macintosh computer with Disk Copy 6.3.3 (the Make a Floppy command under the Utilities menu) in order to create the floppy.
http://download.info.apple.com/Apple_Support_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English -North_American/Macintosh/Utilities/Disk_Copy/Disk_Copy_6.3.3.smi.bin
Jan

Startup disk full, can't get in to delete files, help!

Help!
I got the 'startup disk almost full' message so I was deleting files to make space when my computer froze, so I turned it off, now it won't let me back in again.
I get the start up chime, then it gets stuck on the apple logo with the progress bar, then a no entry symbol.
I tried starting it in Safe Mode but still can't get in.
This is very very bad, right?
I Have been using time machine to back up but I'm not sure if my most recent photos of my boy starting school last week had been backed up yet or not... I've uploaded them to facebook and instagram and had emailed them to the grandparents so they won't be totally lost but still :/
Can anyone help or am I totally screwed?!
imac was was purchased in 2009 and I *think* the last update I did was to Yosemite..

Start up holding down Command + R and then go to DiskUtility and try repairing your disk from there. As a last resort, you may need to erase or even replace your Hard Drive, but try that first. If it is not booting from there the chances are pretty good that your Drive has died.
Pete

No startup disk recognized during recovery

Recently my computer malfunctioned and crashed for no reason; it was a seemeingly random crash, my only thought is maybe the computer overheated. I shut down the computer and restarted it. Now all I see is the flashing folder with a question mark. I have no time machine back-ups and have only had this computer for a year. I tried to reinstall the Mountain Lion OS X from the 'Internet Recovery', but when it ask to choose a disk, there is no disk listed at all. I am already assuming that I have lost everything that was on my computer. I can't even get to the normal desktop.
Does this entail that I need a new hard-drive entirely? Or is there possibly another problem? I want to avoid going somewhere to get it repaired if possible.
Any thoughts?

Try it this way..
Startup your Mac while holding down the Option key.
That should launch the Startup Manager window where you can select the startup disk then click Restart.
If the startup disk is not available, it's possible it has failed. This is why it's so important to backup important data on a timely basis so you can restore from a backup.

No startup Disk to select

Hi,
I have a Macbook retina13, I installed Yosemite-BAD CHOICE.I decided to restore to Mavericks using cmdR and selecting time machine. After several failures,the startup disk doesnt show up anymore.I cant even reinstall Yosemite because recovery HD is locked.

Hi,
there seems to be some light in the end of the tunnel.
I took the Mac to a service center, they say that all the data has been lost and my only option is to reinstall os. They asked for a whopping 60euros for one hour's work. Might be worth it, but I still have faith in experts like yourselves prior to turning my mac in.
The situation is as follows:
- pressing option upon restart takes me to a screen that offers the recovery HD but doesn't allow me to choose it - saying it's locked.
- Going to the recovery options, none see to find the startup disk
- I created a Mavericks usb flash drive, installed the system (on the flash drive). now the machine is booting from it, slow and all, but it has injected some life. The internal HD is nowhere to be found, except in Disk Utilities. In disk utilities I can see the original (internal) HD with no partitions. In the options, I can read info, verify and repair - although the machine claims there is nothing to be repaired and the disk is OK. In the partition menu, I am not allowed to amend anything.
I would really appreciate your help on this, I await a response

Accidentally deleted startup disk

I dont really remember what exactly I was doing to have deleted my start up disk, but recently my keyboard has been on the fritz and wont let me type anything, or, it lets me type, but its in symbols and its locked with no way out of it. Therefore I cannot log into my interenet connection. How do I get my startup disk back? I just got this so there are no back up points on it. I feel like it'll be nearly impossible to fix this. I can get to disk utility, after that I am lost. Help please!

You have a hardware problem. Take it to an Apple store and have them fix it.

Lost startup CD, buy a replacement? or will HP replace it?

Lost my startup disk that is need to install the printer. Should I buy a new one or will HP replace it if I give them my serial number/receipt number?

All you have to do is search the web...
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/DriverDownload.jsp?prodNameId=3919446&lang=en&cc=us...
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