My Retina Mac came with 10.8, how can I make a bootable copy of 10.8?

Do Internet recovery, download the installer, choose an external HD to install it to, when the comp restarts, disconnect the External HD before it turns back on.
Extract the Install.dmg and put it on your desktop, then use disk utility to install that onto your external HD.

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How can I make a bootable disk for Mountain Lion?

Make Your Own Mountain/Lion Installer
1. After downloading Mountain/Lion you must first save the Install Mac OS X Mountain/Lion application. After Mountain/Lion downloads DO NOT click on the Install button. Go to your Applications folder and make a copy of the Mountain/Lion installer. Move the copy into your Downloads folder. Now you can click on the Install button. You must do this because the installer deletes itself automatically when it finishes installing.
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Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
After DU loads select your flash drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to an hour depending upon the flash drive size.
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4. Plug in your freshly prepared USB flash drive. You are going to clone the content of the InstallESD.dmg disc image to the flash drive as follows:
Double-click on the InstallESD.dmg file to mount it on your Desktop.
Open Disk Utility.
Select the USB flash drive from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Select the USB flash drive volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Drag the mounted disc icon from the Desktop into the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
When the clone is completed you have a fully bootable installer that you can use without having to re-download Mountain/Lion.
Note: The term Mountain/Lion used above means Lion or Mountain Lion.

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How can I make a bootable Mavericks SD Card or DVD?

Download the Mavericks install app, then run Apple's built-in Terminal command (included with the install app), where Untitled is the name of your USB stick:
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More details in http://osxdaily.com/2013/06/12/make-boot-os-x-mavericks-usb-install-drive/

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Allan

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Hi mariponce,
Is it the Word document that you want to make a copy of, or the PDF? In either case, you can choose File > Save As (in the appropriate application), and give the file a new name. For example, if you have a file named "HappyTimes.docx," you could choose File > Save As, and name the file "HappyTimes2.docx." Then, you'll have two Word files, and you can edit one and leave the other intact.
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:(:(

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Thing is, some if not all of them require you to boot from a different disk, and since I got them online, I don't have bootable CDs for them.
The OS X install disk doesn't allow you to access files on your HD and neither does DiskWarrior's DVD, so is there any way at all to make a bootable CD which will show me a finder window with the tools I need or anything like that?
I KNOW that BootCD exists for older versions of mac, and frustratingly that's the only answer I have come across online despite the fact that it doesn't work for Tiger.
Please help, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Argh, posted this in the wrong section, AND I figured out how to do it myself anyway...
Could a mod please close this? Apologies to everyone for making a balls of this

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It is necessary to make a migration copy of all our email addresses for transfer to windows express.
Our office overseas can not use Thunderbird & needs all our email addresses stored in Thunderbird copied for migration into their windows express program. How can this be achieved.?
I think we may also need to transfer email copies too, can this be done.?
If so, how.?
Regards Kym

Ok I have googled, I have found a windows cleaning company in Switzerland http://www.windowsexpress.org/About-Us.htmland something called Parallels Desktop for Mac with instructions for installing windows on a mac.
So I think we need to go back to the beginning with "What is Windows express?"
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What formats can this mail software import?
Are your existing mail accounts IMAP or pop?
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My mid 2009 MacBook Pro has a bad Hard Drive and I am going to start over with a new one. I keep getting an error message attempting to install on the current hard drive. In order to make it easier I would like to make a bootable USB Thumb drive get a new hard drive and start from scratch.
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Arthur-
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What formats can this mail software import?
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How can I make a bootable disk so as to repair my drive?

Hello,
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PS this has happened me 3 times in a year since moving to mac and it peeves me greatly that such a great OS cannot solve its own directory structure problems - the way Scandisk does for windows.

thanks for the suggestion. I have tried fsck before but for me it has never solved the problem - afterwards, verify disk in Disk Utility still reports failure on exit. Seems I get myself into the biggest possible diffs! Fsck is supposed to do even more than disk utility but I have not found it so. In my previous diffs, when I boot from another medium and run "repair disk," it (nearly!) always solves the problem. If anyone else can give me an answer I would be most grateful LJ

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You need to purchase the Snow Leopard DVD from the online Apple Store -> http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard. After you've installed, make sure that you upgrade to the latest version - 10.6.8.
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in other words how to adjust the volume of the sound?
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