Mac osx 10.6 disc
Hi. I am a Peace Corps volunteer living overseas and recently had a problem with my mac where it won't boot up. I saw a friend with this problem at home and he used his OSX disk to boot up, then run run disk utility, and then got it to work.
I am hoping there is somewhere I can get a copy of the disk online so i can burn it to a dvd or flash drive so i can run the disk utility.
does anyone have any information about this?
Not quite correct Carolyn. Your options:
1. If you have no CD, you can repair the disk booting into safe mode holding command-S at startup with the built-in, or wired Apple keyboard. This brings up the command line. Follow the directions for running fsck from:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417
2. If you have the 10.6 installer that installed 10.6 on your machine, or newer retail installer (10.6.3 is the newest retail available. Those Macs newer than March 15, 2010 must use their original 10.6 installer disc, and not a retail installer if they don't have 10.7 available to them), you can after selecting the language, select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu, and run Repair Disk. To boot from CD when other methods don't work, boot with the 'Option' key from the built-in or wired keyboard.
3. If you are able to boot into the Mac normally, sometimes troubleshooting issues is as simple as repairing permissions. This can be done from Applications -> Utilities -> Disk Utility. This Disk Utility is NOT able to Repair Disk, rather it can only Verify Disk. Repair/Verify Disk is different from Repair Permissions. Repair/Verify disk deals with the directory. Permissions deal with issues of read/write access of individual system files. The directory has to do with the actual boot sector mapping of the hard drive.
Sometimes when the directory is munged really badly, Apple's fsck/Disk Utility can't repair it, and only purchasing Alsoft Disk Warrior can and booting from its CD. Again 'Option' key often works better than 'C' key for booting.
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