Reinstall Disk/Network Utility

I was having trouble installing Office:Mac 2008, and I called Microsoft. We found that I have no disk or network utilities in my Applications-Utilities folder. I'm pretty sure this is the problem.
How can I reinstall and/or repair these utilities?

Hi BT, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Get Pacifist...
http://www.charlessoft.com/
then extract/install what you need from your Install Disk.

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Networking Utility Broken

Hi, I've got a new MBP and I can't launch the Networking Utility in the utilities folder.
When I launch it I get the following error:
You can't open the application "Network Utility" because it is not supported on this architecture.
I called Apple and the first tech couldn't figure it out and I was told that I can't speak with their senior support because I didn't pay for the Apple Care extended warranty. It's pretty annoying considering I've only had this laptop for <6 months.
As far as I can tell everything else works great but I'd like to use the Network Utility
Does anyone know how to reinstall the Network Utility without having to reinstall OS X?
Thanks!

Did you migrate from a PPC machine? How did OS X get to 10.5.3? Have you reinstalled the operating system? Used a utility like XSlimmer or Monolingual? Repaired the hard drive and permissions:
Repairing the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your OS X Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger and Leopard.) After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer. Now shutdown the computer for a couple of minutes and then restart normally.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior (4.0 for Tiger, and 4.1 for Leopard) and/or TechTool Pro (4.6.1 for Leopard) to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.

Broken Network Utility

Hi, I've got a new MBP and I can't launch the Networking Utility in the utilities folder.
When I launch it I get the following error:
You can't open the application "Network Utility" because it is not supported on this architecture.
I called Apple and the first tech couldn't figure it out and I was told that I can't speak with their senior support because I didn't pay for the Apple Care extended warranty. It's pretty annoying considering I've only had this laptop for <6 months.
As far as I can tell everything else works great but I'd like to use the Network Utility
Does anyone know how to reinstall the Network Utility without having to reinstall OS X?
Thanks!

this error usually happens when you try to run Tiger software in Leopard. sometimes an upgrade from tiger to leopard doesn't upgrade an application and this happens.
have you done an upgrade from Tiger on this computer? In any case you can reinstall Networking Utility from the leopard install DVD using [Pacifist|http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/12743].

HELP!!! Disk Utility, Network Utility and other apps gone!!!

I had an admin account with these on its desktop. Monitor, Disk Utilty, Network Utility, OnyX, etc (mostly maintenence tools). I had to erase the admin account and now I can't find them anywhere! I tried reinstalling OSX bundled software only, it installed fine and I still can find these utilites... have I erased them permanently?
Am I gonna have to do a complete OS X reinstall?

Activity Monitor not Utility Monitor. I found out the last app! I knew I did this for a reason:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/glissonfam/459489845/
I'm a very visual person and I take an automated snapshot of my desktops every day or so just in case. Tech Tool Deluxe! I can reinstall from my Apple Care software. Phew...
Thanks alot guys I really appreciate all the help! All is well!

Disk utility not working and neither is reinstall disk

Im trying to wipe a hard drive off of an old computer because it is way too slow. I've tried the disk utility and it won't start(tried command - r and starting it in safe mode). Then I found my OS x reinstall disk and that didn't work. So I'm at a loss. Any help?

If you have Snow Leopard disc, boot from it to reformat the drive with DiskUtility and install OS X.
OS X Recovery boot(booting with command+r) is included Lion or later OS X.
OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support

Disk repair utility & printer issue

I will admit right now that until last night, have never touched an iMac but I have a friend that due to health issues, needs a hand. Can I ask a couple of questions of this forum?
1: She has an external Lacie H/D that is making wierd noises after being knocked over. Her backup software says to run the Disk Repair Utility. I haven't the slightest idea where to find this Disk Repair Utility, nor if I can run it on an external drive.
2: Her printer, mac book and iMac were recently moved from one location to another home. I need her printer connected wirelessly to both computers. I was able to get her Macbook connected but I am having issues with iMac. Can I uninstall her printer and reinstall? Not even sure how to do that basic process so advice would be appreciated.

Disk Utility should be able to check the LaCie - whether it will be able to complete any repairs that may be needed will become obvious when it's attempted. Disk Utility is normally in the Utilities folder within the Applications folder.
Regarding the printer, yes you can uninstall it in System Preferences>Printers & Scanners (or similar wording depending on version of OS X). The +/- buttons add/remove printers.
If you still have problems, post back.

Disk Repair Utility Full Disk Error

Today, my MBP froze, as in it no longer responded to keypresses or moving the mouse, so I held the power button until it powered off. Whenever I try to power it back on, it comes up with the apple logo on a gray screen, and a progress bar briefly appears beneath the apple logo, flashes a few times and dissappears, then the computer turns off.
By running the disk repair utility from the OSX install disk, the OSX partition of my hard drive needs to be repaired. When I try to repair it, it gives me an error saying that the disk is too full to do a repair on (I probably have ~10GB free, so this makes sense), and I need to wipe my disk and reinstall OSX .
I have windows installed via bootcamp and I can still boot into that and see my contents of the OSX partition (e.g. I can play my music, watch movies, open documents all of which are on the OSX partition, I just can't boot to it.).
Although probably unrelated, I've run the diagnostics, and everything came up okay. I've also tried holding shift during boot (trying to get OSX into safe mode) and holding command-option-P-R (clear the PRAM) during boot, neither of which helped.
My current strategy is copy a lot of data off my OSX partition from within my windows partition to an external HDD, in order to free up space on my OSX drive, so that hopefully disk repair can do its job. Does anyone know if this will work, or if not, can anyone recommend an alternate work around?

Backup your files, if possible. Your only recourse is to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X. Do not copy or backup files from Windows. If at all possible boot from another drive like your external HDD by installing OS X on the external drive (unless it is already a bootable drive.) You can then copy your data from the faulty OS X volume before erasing it.
You should never permit your free space to drop so low. One should maintain 10-12 GBs or 10-15% of the volume's total capacity, whichever is greater.
Since this problem will likely recur I suggest you consider just replacing the drive with one that is considerably larger. I would also be sure to arrange to maintain a bootable backup on an external drive in case problems such as this one occur.

I accidentally deleted the built in Network Utility and need to restore it.

I'm using OS X Mavericks.
I accidentally deleted the built in Network Utility and need to restore it.
It's not in my Time Capsule back ups. Where do I go with this other than an OS reinstallation?

It should be in your TC backup. If not, you will need to Reinstall OS X
Note that with Mavericks, you need to go to: /System/Library/CoreServices/Applications/Network Utility.app
(You can drag to your Dock, or make this an alias)

Network Utility-Accidently Lost

Hey everyone,
I am new to mac and i accidently deleted the network utility file (thought it wouldn't permanently vanish if i removed it from the dock like an application). Anyway, i couldn't find it on the site,the internet ,nor could i find a way to extract it from the OS installation DVD without having to reinstall the system.
Could anyone please shed some light on the situation since it is a really brilliant and simple utility and wouldn't want to have to replace it with another -if there is any- ?
Thanks in advance

Temro,
Welcome to the Forums! It shouldn't have removed it from your computer by you removing it from the dock. The default location for it is located in the /Applications/Utilities Folder. You can quickly get to this folder by, whilst in Finder by typing Command + Shift + U on your keyboard. Also if you wanted to do a quick search in Spotlight that would be good too, to do that either click on the Magnifier in the top right corner of you screen or hit Command + spacebar. Note that if you click on the finding of Network Utility it will open up in the Dock, from there you can ctrl + click it and select Keep in Dock.
If however it did actually get removed from you Mac I hear there is a way to restore it using Pacifist [Found Here|http://www.charlessoft.com> see this thread for more details http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7376327
I hope that helps,
Weston

Running the Disk Cleanup Utility in Windows 8

Sometimes, inbetween uninstalling and reinstalling software/drivers, it is a good idea to run Windows Disk Cleanup Utility. The Disk Cleanup utility helps free up disk space by deleting unnecessary files from your computer.
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Network Utility Lookup is showing corrupted data

I'm getting corrupted incorrect text data whenever I use the lookup function in Network Utility. DiG in the terminal returns the proper data. The text data is from a Word document I created about 2 weeks ago.
and the rest of the text from the document follows.
I am thinking a host file or something was overwritten accidentally. Can anyone point me the right direction?

I'm not sure I understand your question, but if the hosts file has been modified, proceed as follows.
The easiest way to fix the hosts file is to restore it from a backup that predates the modification, or to copy the unmodified file from another Mac. If you can't do that, then do as below. Please read this whole message before doing anything.
Back up all data. This is a simple procedure, but if you don't follow the instructions exactly, you could be left with an unbootable system. In that case, you'll have to restore from a backup or reinstall OS X.
If you have more than one user account, you must be logged in as an administrator.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below to select it:
open -e /etc/hosts
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). A TextEdit window should open. At the top of the window, you should see this:
# Host Database
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
127.0.0.1                              localhost
255.255.255.255          broadcasthost
::1                                        localhost
fe80::1%lo0                    localhost
Below that, you'll see some other lines. There should be nothing above the first line "##". If you have any doubt about that, STOP and ask for guidance. Make sure you scroll all the way to the bottom of the document. Scroll bars are hidden by default until you actually start scrolling, so you may not realize that you’re not seeing the whole document.
If the contents of the TextEdit window are as described, close it, then enter the following command in the Terminal window in the same way as before (by copy and paste):
sudo sed -i~ '11,$d' /etc/hosts
This time, you'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. Confirm. Quit Terminal.
If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator. Log in as one and start over.
That will fix the hosts file. There is now a copy of the old hosts file with the name "hosts~" in the same folder as "hosts". You can delete the copy if you wish. Don't delete the file named "hosts".

Network Utility missing / not installed??

I've recently purchased a MacBook Pro and have just noticed the network utility is not installed in the utility folder where it was on my previous PowerBook.
I'm was running Tiger on the PowerBook and the network utility was installed, can't understand why it isn't installed on the MacBook Pro.
Any ideas

Hi optiman, and a warm welcome to the forums!
I was just about to direct you to the great instructions by Kappy that Limnos already pointed to... thanks Limnos!
Though for safety, whenever something mysterious is missing, I think it would pay to first do this...
Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at bootup), & use Disk Utility from there to Repair Permissions, reboot once more.

Reset factory settings on early 2008 Macbook Air - no reinstall disks

Hi,
I just purchased a January 2008 Macbook Air for a family member. The other person wiped it clean of their personal data but I want to put it back to factory settings so it's a fresh start from scratch.
I have no idea if these models came with any kind of reinstall disks or flash drives, but this wasn't included with the purchase.
I have a late 2010 Macbook Air myself which came with a Reinstall Drive for Mac OS X v10.6 + iLife '11. (model no. A1384).
All I need to know is whether my reinstall drive will work on the 2008 model before I run the disk utility and wipe everything.
I don't own an external CD drive or super drive.
Any help would be great.
Thanks

That computer came with restore discs for Leopard and iLife '08. You can purchase replacements from Apple Support:
Apple Store Customer Service at 1-800-676-2775 or visit online Help for more information.
To contact product and tech support: Apple - Support - Contact Apple Support.
For Mac App Store: Apple - Support - Mac App Store.
For iTunes: Apple - Support - iTunes.
It is unlikely the discs that came with your 2010 MBA will install on the older model, but you can certainly try. It is, however, a violation of the software license to install OS X on more than one CPU at a time.
I have no idea what you mean be a "reinstall drive." Your computers came with DVDs, not drives. You can use any external drive that can read dual-layer discs and connect via USB.

IMAC G4 Tiger 10.4.10 see USB Negear WG111 in Profiler not in network util

Hello,
I have a G4 running Tiger, I have a Netgear WG111 USB V2 it is recognized in System Profiler (as Cohiba 3887 rev0) but network utility does not see it. The driver is loaded into the OS. Any help?
Thanks

Hello,
Thanks for the welcome... I rebooted and looked at Sys pref; Network; show; network port configurations.
I only see the built in products, eth0, firewire, modem. If I try to add one it only gives me those options and 6 to 4.
So it doesn't appear to be recognized, add to that the Netgear app which is for 10.4 is showing in my apps and when I open it it appears to hit the dock as the line moves as if it will add it but doesn't load there. This could be my issue going to try and reload it.

Purchased Lion, installed it - once I log in - i get the curtain and message to hold the power button till it shuts down. Worked with the disk repair utility - fixed permissions - still can't get past the "black curtain of death" any suggestions?

purchased Lion, installed it - once I log in - i get the curtain and message to hold the power button till it shuts down. Worked with the disk repair utility - fixed permissions to hold the power button till it shuts down. Worked with the disk repair utility - fixed permissions - still can't get past the "black curtain of death" any suggestions?
My machine was patched to date 10.x.x. I was lucky to get an internet connection and I selected the option to re-download Lion... its curruently being downloaded. What if that doesn't work?
Any thougths would be appreciated.
Joe

And you have a workstation? not a notebook.
Usually a driver or hardware, nothing that Disk utility will fix.
You know of course what a Prohititory Sign is?
prohibitory sign, kernel panic
Forum devoted to Lion:
Mac OS X v10.7 Lion Communities
Tips and FAQs
FAQ kernelpanic
Resolving Kernel Panics
Avoiding eliminating Kernel panics
Lion App Compatibility Table - RoaringApps
RoaringApps Mac OS X Lion Application Compatibility
did you make sure your apps, drivers, and hardware support Lion?

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