Replacing harddrive issues on restart.

I just replaced harddrive in my macbook pro. It turns on to the apple page but justs sits there grinding away. I formatted harddrive, install seemed to go when. When it requested a restart, it went to the apple page and just sat there. ????

It sounds that your machine is running fine, but it doesn't seem you've inserted the install DVD(s) yet. Turn on your MBP, insert the first DVD, and follow the onscreen instructions.
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Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen. Wait patiently - 15-20 minutes - until the Recovery main menu appears.
Partition and Format the hard drive:
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your external hard 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.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion. Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Install button. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one.
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Replaced Harddrive- failing again. Help?

My 15" alum 1.67 Powerbook g4 hard drive failed. Got the question mark for startup disk, no HD recognized, but ran fine from my external bootable backup. So, after looking for advice, I replaced the HD with a 160gig seagate. Things were OK for 2 weeks or so, but now I am back to the warning signs on the last HD: intermittent question mark, frequent crashes, and logs like Debugger() called, caught I/O exception, etc. I have run every hard ware utility I could (SMART, Disk utility, hardware disk, techtool, applejack) and they all say everything is fine!
I am out of ideas. I will replace the replaced harddrive just to be sure, but does anyone have ideas what could be wrong? It is out of applecare now, so thats not an option.
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That is not something normally an end user can do unless they want to replace the logicboard too. I recommend these places to do such a repair out of warranty:
http://www.dttservice.com/
http://www.powerbookresq.com/
http://www.microdocusa.com/
http://www.macspecialist.com/
http://www.techrestore.com/
If you are adventurous and know what you are doing either:
http://www.ifixit.com/ or http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/ offer guidance for do-it-yourselfers.
Your other option is just have the hard drive removed and put in another Powerbook of the same age*:
http://www.macmaps.com/usedrefurbished.html
If you want it attached to a newer Mac that has an Intel CPU, best to put it in an external hard drive case, which is Parallel ATA/IDE (ATA/100) and 2.5", and manually migrate your data over that is not sensitive to upgrading to Intel CPUs.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

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Hello,
Can anybody please help me with a replacement path issue which I have been struggling with for days, and I am completely lost
now and close to despair!
Here's what I am trying to do. I have a simple query with one key figure (let it be Presence) and three items in structure in rows: 0EMPLOYEE, 0PROFIT_CTR and variance. The idea is to show the result both for the person (0EMPLOYEE), and compare it with their overall profit centre result, and calculate variance.
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variance: 10%
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Aglukas,
You need two queries to achieve this
Query 1 u2013 ( this gets Profit center of that employee to feed into Query 2)
Column Presence(key figure)
Row u2013 profit center
Employee u2013 Employee variable that is user entry
Query 2 u2013
Column u2013 Presence
Row Structure u2013 Selection 1- Title- Employee u2013Restriction should be employee with user entry variable
Selecton 2 u2013 Title For entire profit center u2013 Restriction should be Profit center u2013 Variable should be-Replacment path Variable- fetching Profit center from Query 1
Selection 3 u2013 Selection 1-Selection 2 this could be a cell defination.
Hope this helps
Regards

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This is more of a results post than a question post.
Recently I had several problems with my clickwheel
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eventually going into the failure mode of cycling
through the icons listed in the the subject line. I
tried all of the recommendations I could find,
including Apple's "five Rs" and going into the
diagnostics mode as described in this site (more on
this later):
http://www.methodshop.com/mp3/ipodsupport/diagnosticmo
de/
All tests came up Okay.
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countless times. Nothing seemed to work.
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remember how this happened). I erased (formatted)
and restored that, and instead of restoring the
current (3.1.1) iPod software version, I restored to
3.1. This seems to have done the trick. I'm fairly
certain that just restoring to 3.1 would have fixed
the problem.
The troubles started shortly after updating to the
most recent software version and seem to have gone
away by backing up to the previous version.
I think going back a software version would fix many
problems people suddenly seem to be having with their
iPods.
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Mo
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OS X (10.4.4)

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Thanks for the reply, yes my harddrive failed and I installed a new one, but after using the HP recovery disc purchased though HP, computer showed a error screen in black saying bootmgr was missing.
Found out the HP discs partitioned the new harddrive, with windows on X:\ but was booting to C:\ which was just a recovery image. X drive wasn't complete, was missing all drivers and could not activate the drive or change drive letter to C. I didn't know how to do this in command prompt.
Fixed my issue with a windows 7 installation disc not the recovery discs that came from HP, hopefully they will work to reinstall all drivers to the laptop, but we will see. Used (repair my computer) on the installation disc and it repaired the bootmgr. thanks anyway......

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I have had this same issue for a while, but after getting a new video card it went away.
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IPhotos won't show pictures after replacing Harddrive

Hi,
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Not sure if any one has already posted this and got replies...
my T400 has a strange issue. it takes a lot time in pre-boot... a cursor blinks on the top left corner for 5+ minutes and then loads the 'Windows loading...' screen for about another 5 mins and finally shows the windows logon screen.
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Srini,
I brought your tweet in and started a new thread and then found you already had a forum discussion going, so I'll just apend to your original thread and will leave this since I tweeted the link back to you to let you know we were taking a look.(Apologies)
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Have you checked the boot device order in BIOS? Make sure HDD is listed first.
Are there a lot of applications being loaded in the startup folder?
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Namespace replace/rename issue in ALSB

Hi,
As part of our project we have been using ALSB3.0. In one of our outbound Proxy flows we have configured transform stage which intern executing XQuery transormation. Post transformation it publish message on BEA JMSTopic in following format.
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Please help us in rename/replace namespace prefix from 'ref:' to 'ns1:' at post transformation and before publishing the saem to JMS Topic.
Thanks in advance........

Personally I would mandate that what ever is the consumer of the JMSQ should be compatible with XML name space constructs. If it is not under our control then one solution would be
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let $strContent := fn-bea:serialize($body)
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Also you can try defining name space for http://www.indteur.org/abc/2.1/reference as ns1 in sbconsole proxy name space definitions. I believe even this will work but never tried.Let me know if this works for you.
My two cents
Manoj
Edited by: mneelapu on Oct 13, 2009 9:18 AM

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Everytime I install the new version of iTunes, it drops my USB Harddrive from the computer. The system thinks the drive is empty, yet all my folders are there, just no files. I do a system restore and no iTunes, but I can then see everything on the harddrive. What is causing this? I get an error that says failed to write to drive G: after the install which G: is the USB harddrive. Never had this issue before the update, and can't get back to version 6 now. So of course I can't update my ipod now.

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