Mac OS X disk problem.

So i recently got a macbook (2006) from a friend and he had a problem where the harddrive messed up, so i switched the harddrive. he did not have the original disks for the computer so i but some new ones, The gray disks which i now know there is no way to legally put them on to the system that doesnt belong to them. So i was wondering if there is any legal way to do it, i really dontwant to have to buy the high priced discs:P

Hello,
I don't fully understand what you are staying here. Have you brought the correct gray system restore disk for your model of MacBook? If so then I can't see any problem with installing them provided they are original gray disks.
Apple Licence agreement states,
you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software on a single Apple-branded computer at a time. You agree not to install, use or run the Apple Software on any non-Apple-branded computer, or to enable others to do so. This License does not allow the Apple Software to exist on more than one computer at a time, and you may not make the Apple Software available over a network where it could be used by multiple computers at the same time.
Provided you have met those requirements, then your fine to install.
Best of luck

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How do I resolve LOCKED DISKS problem ? NO ACCESS ANYMORE !

Hello everybody,
I've looked carefully where to post this topic,
and I hope it's the right place here
(I have already been warned not to post the same questions in different places).
I have actually 2 internal volumes locked, 2 external Firewire volumes locked and 2 USB external volumes locked. I'm talking about *5,7 To* with *NO ACCESS* anymore.
It happened suddenly, and I was working on Snow Leopard 10.6.3 internal drive. This volume is the *only one* that has NOT been locked, but I lost a lot of applications, documents and so on on it.
Each of the locked volumes I am talking about shows,
in *Sharing & Permissions* (Get Info window),
the same Privileges :
— everyone : Custom
— admin : Custom
— olcha (Me) : Custom
— staff : Custom
— everyone (again) : Custom
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and "admin" should have also R+W privilege.
I don't know why "staff" is here (perhaps, one day, somebody will explain to me the difference between : wheel, staff and admin).
I also don't know why "everyone" is there two times.
If I unlock the padlock (bottom right) with my password, I can only
check or uncheck the "Ignore ownership on this volume" square (bottom left).
Doing this (apparently) offers *no interest at all* to solve the problem
(and what does this function produce, when activated or not ?).
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but nothing new is shown after "+" making.
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I sent him two messages, but he replied me that perhaps MONDAY
he could find the time to call me.
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Thank you very much in advance.
Secondly, I have reflected on the solving,
and would like to know what you think about what follows :
You know that, in Disk Utility, you can erase a disk or partition.
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1) Sharing and Permissions will be changed and become (reset to) correct ;
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I would be very glad that you indicate me :
1) the best application to use for that recovery ;
2) I already own "Drive Genius 3.0", "Data Rescue 3.0.2" and
(I think it's the best after a try on an internal 30 Go partition)
"Stellar Phoenix Macintosh Data Recovery".
Thank you in advance for your answers and advices,
With my kind regards
Olivier Herrbach
[email protected]
PS : Dear Forum Webmaster,
I would like to know :
1) if I posted this topic in the right place ;
2) if you allow me to post it elsewhere (and in this case, where ?) ;
3) is it possible to paste images in messages,
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Thank you very much
Olivier Herrbach

Dear ChazBowie,
Here is the solution I've found for *LOCKED DISKS* problem.
I'll respond the shorter I can, avoiding for the moment to talk about the complicated solutions
that Apple gave to me, which involved volume by volume (only one each time) intervention, and were working by, each time, entering one line, password, then another line in Terminal. I will communicate these instructions later, but they do not need to be publicated here with urgence.
I found two little free softwares that can modify *ALL Privileges* in Sharing and Permissions, *on ANYTHING*. You will have to be careful using them, as they even allow to act as "Root" administrator.
I'd also like everyone to *donate anything* to these helpful developers, and I'd be very pleased to have *your feedback and results*.
••• 1) — *BatChmod 1.6.2* (162), written by a compatriot, Renaud Boisjoly.
E-mail (if you have doubts or questions) : [email protected]
Free software downloading site : *http://www.macchampion.com/arbysoft*
(excuse me, but I don't know how to make a link here).
••• 2) — *FileXaminer 2.7*, recommended by Renaud himself.
Dear ChazBowie,
Here is the solution I've found for *LOCKED DISKS* problem.
I'll respond the shorter I can, avoiding for the moment to talk about the complicated solutions
that Apple gave to me, which involved volume by volume (only one each time) intervention, and were working by, each time, entering one line, password, then another line in Terminal. I will communicate these instructions later, but they do not need to be publicated here with urgence.
I found two little free softwares that can modify *ALL Privileges* in Sharing and Permissions, *on ANYTHING*. You will have to be careful using them, as they even allow to act as "Root" administrator.
I'd also like everyone to *donate anything* to these helpful developers, and I'd be very pleased to have *your feedback and results*.
••• 1) — *BatChmod 1.6.2* (162), written by a compatriot, Renaud Boisjoly.
E-mail (if you have doubts or questions) : [email protected]
Free software downloading site : Gideon Softworks : *http://www.gideonsoftworks.com/*
I won't copy here the texts that are on both sites, but it's very instructive.
Remember that the applications don't only work on files and folders,
*but also on disks attributes*.
You'll also have some work to do (I don't remember, perhaps not), by going in the Get Info windows
and changing privileges to the correct ones, that means you must know
(I'm not sure, verify please) what privileges are to be set for a volume
(YOU WILL HAVE ACCESS TO THEM, AND CHANGES YOU MAKE WON'T BE RESET TO "CUSTOM").
Does anybody know something about the "Ignore ownership on this volume" checkbox ?
*I always uncheck it*.
I would also like very much to know the differences between the two-headed iconed groups :
"staff", "wheel" and "admin", and IN THE END know *WHERE are the rules* you have to observe
when doing changes in privileges (for example, I don't want to give my password to copy something in Users folder, nor "MyName" folder. I've changed that without, I hope, having created any dysfunction).
Please tell me if you know anything about these 2 subjects above.
I'm very glad if my informations have been useful/helpful.
With my kind regards,
Olivier Herrbach

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a) My Macbook Pro lost the date/time and wi-fi settings. Next reboot wi-fi was still lost. Now seems OK again.
b) At times my 24" iMac is running slowly when nothing seems to be hogging resources (eg just copying a 3Gb file to an external hard disk). Time Machine also seems to be taking much longer to backup.
c) Hard disk failed on a Macbook Pro of a colleague
d) iMac 27" seems to be having severe hard disk problems for another colleague - Applecare will be visiting after trying numerous fixes over the phone.
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Or maybe a hard disk is close to failure but the problem is not severe enough to show up in diagnostics?
Common symptoms of a dying hard drive
Hard drive is making a clicking, whirring, grinding, ping pong ball noise or any other type of unusal noises.
Hard drive is not spinning.
Computer is not recognizing the hard drive.
Sluggish loading of applications.
System freezes and hangs.
An interesting site - Hard Drive Sounds by drive manufacturer.
How much hard drive space do you have left?
Disk Inventory X
OmniDiskSweeper
WhatSize
SpaceControl
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Select your language.
Once on the desktop, select Utility in the menu bar.
Select *Disk Utility.*
Select the disk or volume in the list of disks and volumes, and then click *First Aid.*
Click _*Repair Disk.*_
Restart your computer when done.
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After discussing it, and the distance to an authorized repairer he offered on-site repair.
After a lengthy parts delay I was offered an upgrade to a iSight iMac.
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No I think that all drive are really on failure
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ID# ATTRIBUTE_NAME          FLAG     VALUE WORST THRESH TYPE      UPDATED WHEN_FAILED RAW_VALUE
1 Raw_Read_Error_Rate     0x001a   200   200   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
5 Reallocated_Sector_Ct   0x0033   100   100   000    Pre-fail Always       -       0
9 Power_On_Hours          0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       1872
12 Power_Cycle_Count       0x0032   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       762
169 Unknown_Attribute       0x0013   253   253   010    Pre-fail Always       -       4003597393408
173 Unknown_Attribute       0x0036   100   100   100    Old_age   Always   FAILING_NOW 12124890467160
174 Unknown_Attribute       0x0022   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       7469954
175 Program_Fail_Count_Chip 0x0022   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       4989854
192 Power-Off_Retract_Count 0x0012   099   099   000    Old_age   Always       -       31
194 Temperature_Celsius     0x0022   064   064   000    Old_age   Always       -       36 (Min/Max 11/75)
197 Current_Pending_Sector 0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
199 UDMA_CRC_Error_Count    0x001a   200   199   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
240 Unknown_SSD_Attribute   0x0022   100   100   000    Old_age   Always       -       0
When I use the Mac disk tools from the startup menu, it see also the problem.
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Their configurations are the same : windows 7 with truecrypt.
Maybe Windows drastically reduces the lifetime of the Apple SSD drive.
The 3 Mac are used for less than 6 month !!!!

Mac OSX sofware update problems-computer will not start-up any more

Hello
I am having problems & I cannot get back into my computer. It won't complete the start up & just has the grey apple in the middle of the white screen and nothing else.
I have an iBook G4 with Tiger on it - I am not sure which version of Mac OS X I was on when I did the software update but the one I was on last year when I came to this forum was 10.4.8 & I think I have updated it a few times since then so it was probably as I was attempting to install 10.4.11 as I do not have Leopard yet.
The problem began when I did the Mac OSX update that it told me about in software update & when it had completed the update it said I needed to restart my computer which I did & ever since then it will not completely re-boot. (Like I said it just has the white screen/grey apple before it gives the option of who you want to login as).
It seems as though other people have been having similar problems after installing Mac OSX software updates but I cannot find anything here in the forum that solves my problems (or at least not that I can understand at th moment...!)
I need to access things off my computer & can't. Not everything on there was backed up as I had been working on things that day/week. I also don't know how to access my files from another computer (the ones I am trying to connect from does not have tiger it is a PowerBook G4 & it has Mac OSX 10.3.9 on it).
Does anyone know the reason for this problem & how to access files from another computer via an etheret cable in OSX. I know someone who says it was a lot easier to connect computers before Mac OSX days but now it seems really difficult. The only way to start up my iBook G4 is using the Mac OSX install disk & I have tried to verify & repair hard disk permissions using disk utility that comes on the disk as well as verifying & repairing the actual disk but this has not fixed the problem.
I am hoping that I will be able to at least access my files & copy them over to be backed up before I do an erase & install of Mac OSX from the disks. But I am unsure of how to connect my iBook the PowerBook G4 I am on right now. Please help if you know how!
Thanks,
Jazamin

This just worked for my by connecting my other PPC computer to my G5.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1247044&tstart=0
Go down to the other link and follow the same instructions.
You must start up the good computer and shut down the frozen one. Connect via firewire and then hold down the T key while you start the frozen one.
It will show up on your good one, and then install the combo on the frozen one.
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My question is:
Is this definitely a hardware problem that will be solved by replacing the hard drive again, or is it possible that this is being the result of some corrupt files on my user's library (as the problem only appears after a while)?

ign wrote:
Is it normal that the drve appears to be OK after an OS install and that the physical problem only appears after a while?
If you zero it, yes. That's exactly what zeroing does, "mapping" the HD so bad sectors/blocks are not used. But if a HD is dying, more bad areas will show up. It's time to replace the HD.

Hard Disk Problem?

Hello,
I wonder could anybody help me with this problem...
Essentially, when I turn on my PB G4 i first get a globe picture, then the flashing question mark (its searching for the startup disk presumably...)
This screen then freezes after a couple of minutes.
While trying to follow all the instructions on the Apple Support page to remedy the problem myself I came accross a few problems...
When I start up from my Install Disk and try to repair my startup disk using Disk Utility all the repair options for my '55.9 GB FUJITSU etc etc' disk remain grey (i.e. unclickable) even when it is highlighted. It will not let me verify or repair disk or disk permissions.
When I try to change startup disk the only two options available are the Install Cd itself and 'Network Startup' (which I presume is why the flashing question mark appers)
THEN , I tryed to use Startup Manager to see if it would help (by holding option on startup), but this opened up to a screen with two arrow buttons which eventually froze with my cursor remaining as a timer icon the entire time.
Next I successfully reset the PRAM, but no change.
So finally, I try to reinstall the software from the Install disk, only to find that my HD doesn't show up in the 'select volumes' portion of the installation.
This is where the Support Site tells me to visit an Apple Outlet for further help...
Why does my HD not show up here?
Is it a physical problem? (i.e has some connection came loose inside my laptop? Or has the HD itself popped out of its 'slot!'??)
What else could it be?
While searching this database for someone with a similar problem I read that many people have problems with Logic Boards, could my problem be related to this? (Even if my PB is less than 18 months old!?)
.....One final thing.....would reinstalling software from cd erase the contents .....of my HD?? I am going to back it up on my external HD now, but just out .....of curiosity??
Anyway, I would be delighted if anyone had any suggestions as to why my (beloved) powerbook is acting this way, and even more so if anyone could tell me how to fix this problem.
Thanks,
Joey.

Welcome to Apple Discussions, Joey.
Sorry no one has managed to reply. From your description it sounds ominously like your PowerBook's hard drive has failed. If that is the case then the only option left is to replace the drive either under warranty or at your own expense.
However (if you are lucky) you might be able to use Disk Warrior or Drive Genius to perform a temporary repair. Alternatively if you have access to another Mac, FireWire Target Disk Mode or Data Rescue may resurrect it long enough for you to retrieve/backup your data.
Erasing the drive, reinstalling the OS, other software repairs etc will not work and only prolongs the 'pain'. Ultimately the drive will need to be replaced.
15 1.25G/12 1G PBs, Mac minis, iBooks G3/G4, Mac OS X (10.4.3) Cube, TAMs, iPods 2G/4G, iPs, AEBS, AX

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