MY MAC MINI WHICH I PURCHASED USED HAS NO RECOVERY PARTITION
Im a Mac newbie, not a computer newbie since I have been a power PC user since 1985. But there are things that are extremely different with Mac. Windows for example, if I were to damage my boot drive, I could just pop in a USB drive that could boot that perticular version. Then it had 2 options. Install or repair. Often it was just a matter of maybe I changed hardware around. The disk or drive would repair the MBR and all was good. I just had the same thing happen to me with the Mac. I plugged in a 8 GB thumb drive and downloaded the latest version of OS X Mavericks. Not knowing what to do next, I clicked next. Picked the thumb drive. Then it restarted. Holy cow, nothing. Thank God I had a CCC of the original partition. Was able to boot the computer than went to the Disk manager and repaired my internal SSD. I do still have the second hard drive with the now updated clone of my working drive but I really wanted to use that drive which was the original 1TB drive from my mac mini. I replaced that one with a 250 GB SSD. Then I moved my HOME folder to a 3TB Promise Smartstore DS 4600. That unit has the Apple firewire 800 and so my mac mini is very fast. There was no way I could use the SSD for everything.
Anyway, drifting here. Is there a way like windows has to have a small partition on my SSD that should I screw something up like I did this morning, I can press some F button, a repair option comes up and Viola its all repaired with out having to plug in a different hard drive.
No, I have owned 2 nice laptops in the past but ended up selling them quickly out of frustration my work at the time required so much PC software that it was annoying trying to figure out what I needed. The 2 laptops just seemed like expensive toys to me. I always thought Sony was quality and have had 4 expensive Sony laptops besides all of the PC towers I built. Well my first Sony laptop is still running from way back in 2001. No battery though. But the last one I purchased 2 years ago. Full of bells and whistles. Intel I7 quad core, same as my mac now. It worked famously , installed a 250 gb SSD the same one now in my Mac. One morning it just wouldn't power up. I could always handle a crashed disk or something but no power. I said the **** with it. No more PCs besides I've had multiple iPhones now and multiple iPads . They have been wonderful. Still require windows sometimes but now I've got Windows 8.1 in BOOTCAMP plus OS X Mavericks. It doesn't get better. I'm using the Mac OS first now every day only going to windows if needed and that is less and less. So short answer. I have only one Mac for now. But I refuse to purchase another PC. Everything Apple is much more money except the Software. I like the FREE OS updates instead of depending 500 bucks every time Windows comes put with a new OS. Lots to get used to since I've been all PC since 1985 and my first dual floppy drive PC followed by my BIG 10 MB hard drive PC. Then someone told me about a 1gb HD. You kids can't imagine that when I was born B&W TV had just come out! So I've seen so much technology growth that young people must feel like it was always like this! Funny! I can't wait to see what the future brings. I really glad I was one of the fer older people to keep up with Tech. Lots o people my age are now sorry they didn't because thn they just assumed this stuff was just novel! Now many need help just turning one on! Very amusing ! Thanks for the help!
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I want to move my itunes movies from my iMac to my Mac Mini, which is hooked up to my HDTV, so that I can save space on the iMac and use the direct source Mac Mini to view the iTunes movies that I purchase and download. Can anyone give me ideas on how to do that?
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from the menu bar.
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Then click on More Info>Hardware and report this upto but not including the Serial#...
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Hi there,
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My first post to the Apple Support Community so it looks like all I wanted to know is covered in the title. The research I have done led me to solutions that I am not comfortable trying for fear of irreparably damaging my keyboard and/or Mac mini. Does anyone have a simpler solution? Please? Hellooooo?
Just in case the title is too long to show, I have re-pasted here:
The volume keys on my Logitech K760 wireless keyboard do not work with my 2.3 GHz, Intel Core i5 Mac mini which runs Mac OS X 10.7.4. Anyone know how to correct this without having to re-code firmware?BDAqua wrote:
Hello & welcome to the Forums!
I think Spark cured this for another person and the same problem...
http://www.shadowlab.org/Software/spark.php
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=ukelele
http://doublecommand.sourceforge.net/
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The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
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Report for the List of Vendor for which no Purchase order has been created
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regards,Hi Prateksha Vaid ,
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