OSX Re-install Question

If I re-install OSX on my MacBook Prq what sequence of events happen? Do I lose everything presently installed such as contacts info, e-mail accounts, data, etc

If you reinstall OS X and everything works correctly, the install just over writes the system.
I never trust my data to everything working correctly so I always backup first just in case.
Allan

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if you're using parallels and full bootcamp then you're making it 100% more troublesome for youself then it needs to be
bootcamp is running windows directly on the hardware this give full memory and cpu and 3d video game power
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it's a service parallels provide for those who want both to play games in normal bootcamp and sometimes use windows in a virutal machine
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Sorry, kind of long.... but expresses what I'm looking for, trying to do, and why.
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Thanks for any help you guys can provide! I really don't want to be forced to use Windows 8, fuss with Linux, or take out a second mortgage on my house just to afford a Mac. I'm trying to find a compromise of affordability, internal hardware upgradability (which Apple doesn't let you do), and user friendliness (I can deal with Linux if needed, but would rather have something that just works).

Awww, ****. Oh well, it was worth a shot. Thanks for the quick replies guys. I guess I need to go back to looking into Linux..... Linux is a bit of a hassle (trade-off for being free?), but I refuse to have anything more to do with Microsoft now that they have ruined Windows to complete and utter uselessness. It's a kids toy now, not a useful work program for adults. Vista and Win7 were bad enough (although still usefull), but Win8 is a joke. *sigh*
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HI ..
The only way to reinstall OS X on a Mac already running v10.9 is to use OS X Recovery.
Starrtup your Mac while holding down the Command + R keys.
From there you should be able to access the built in utilities to repair the startup disk and reinstall OS X.
Please read > OS X Recovery

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Greetings!,
I am doing a clean reinstall of OSX in my MacBook Pro and I have a question, when I booted from the OSX disc I went to the installer top bar menu and clicked "Utilities" and then "Disk Utility", after that I selected my HDD from the Disk Utility menu and went to the "erase" tab within Disk Utility. After that I put the new name of the formatted HDD and clicked the "Zero-out" option from the "options" button in DU. Aferwards, I clicked the "erase" button and the warning box dropped telling me that all the data in the partition was going to be lost, but before I clicked the erase button I noticed that I've mispelled the HDD name so I clicked cancel, make the correction to the HDD, and then I just clicked again the "erase" button, and clicked OK in the warning box.
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Matt Clifton wrote:
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Following directions found here: "Installing GD on OS X Server 10.5.x" (PDF File) (http://osx.topicdesk.com/content/view/133/41/)
Installing libjpeg went fine. Output for the make is as below:
UniMatrix-5:gd kaenath$ sudo make install
Password:
/bin/sh /SourceCache/php-5.2.8/ext/gd/libtool --mode=install cp ./gd.la /SourceCache/php-5.2.8/ext/gd/modules
cp ./.libs/gd.so /SourceCache/php-5.2.8/ext/gd/modules/gd.so
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/SourceCache/php-5.2.8/ext/gd/modules
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Installing shared extensions: /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/
Installing header files: /usr/include/php/
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MACOSXDEPLOYMENTTARGET=10.5 CFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe -no-cppprecomp" CCFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe" LDFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -bindatload" ./configure --with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-png-dir=/usr/X11R6 --with-freetypedir=/usr/X11R6 --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6cd
UniMatrix-5:gd kaenath$ MACOSXDEPLOYMENTTARGET=10.5 CFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe -no-cppprecomp" CCFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe" CXXFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -g -Os -pipe" LDFLAGS="-arch ppc -arch ppc64 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -bindatload" ./configure --with-zlib-dir=/usr --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/local/lib --with-png-dir=/usr/X11R6 --with-freetypedir=/usr/X11R6 --with-xpm-dir=/usr/X11R6cd
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /usr/bin/grep
checking for egrep... /usr/bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /usr/bin/sed
checking for cc... cc
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of executables...
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for icc... no
checking for suncc... no
checking whether cc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for system library directory... lib
checking if compiler supports -R... no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
checking build system type... powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0
checking host system type... powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0
checking target system type... powerpc-apple-darwin9.8.0
checking for PHP prefix... /usr
checking for PHP includes... -I/usr/include/php -I/usr/include/php/main -I/usr/include/php/TSRM -I/usr/include/php/Zend -I/usr/include/php/ext -I/usr/include/php/ext/date/lib
checking for PHP extension directory... /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613
checking for PHP installed headers prefix... /usr/include/php
checking if debug is enabled... no
checking if zts is enabled... no
checking for re2c... no
configure: WARNING: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.
checking for gawk... no
checking for nawk... no
checking for awk... awk
checking if awk is broken... no
checking for GD support... yes, shared
checking for the location of libjpeg... /usr/local/lib
checking for the location of libpng... /usr/X11R6
checking for the location of libz... /usr
checking for the location of libXpm... /usr/X11R6cd
checking for FreeType 1.x support... no
checking for FreeType 2... no
checking for T1lib support... no
checking whether to enable truetype string function in GD... no
checking whether to enable JIS-mapped Japanese font support in GD... no
checking for fabsf... yes
checking for floorf... yes
checking for jpegreadheader in -ljpeg... no
configure: error: Problem with libjpeg.(a|so). Please check config.log for more information.
Any suggestion on how to get this to install correctly?
Message was edited by: rick knecht

RAID5 has performance setbacks with random writes and simultaneous small writes. If you want good speed and reliability but at the cost of having 2TB of total space, use RAID 0+1. Most mobos support 0, 1, 0+1, and 5.
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Last edited by jwcxz (2009-05-14 08:02:24)

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