Replacing StartUp discs?

It's a simple enough question, is it possible to buy replacement startup discs for the G4? I can't seem to find mine anywhere and I am therefore unable to do disc partitions etc.
Unless I can do this with my Tiger installation disc?

You can order replacement disks from Apple. You can also use your Tiger install disk >> Disk Utility to partition.
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What do I need to do when I receive the message ". . . your startup disc is full, you need to make some room by deleting some files"

I hope I'm in the right place since I was sort of redirected here Recently I have been receiving the message that my startup disc is full and that I need to make room by deleting files. At first I received the message when I left my computer unattended with my virtual machine on, using VMWare Fusion to run Windows. Recently though, I got the message when I left my computer unattended for about 6 hours without the virtual machine running. As an aside, I get extremely nervous when anything freezes VMWare because it is usually a nightmare to get back into Windows if I can at all without calling Tech Support. This new message however, appeared without the virtual machine active, so I was relieved that VMWare most likely was not the cause. After reading a number of Tech Support articles and Community discussion questions and answers, I started wondering if iTunes or the SMC firmware or a combination thereof may be causing the problems. Mind you I know nothing about the SMC stuff because as I said, I am really new to Mac and know very little about computer code or processors or any of that stuff. But I do know that iTunes has recently been giving me some trouble, such as opening on start up and I can't figure out why and messing around with my iTunes libraries. I also read about the SMC firmware and the computer's sleep cycle so that sort of made sense. But I seriously need advice from someone a lot smarter than me. So, before you ask, both iTunes and my SMC firmware are up to date. I'm running a mid-2007 iMac Intel Core 2 Duo Processor with 2.4 GHz of speed.
You may not need all this junk, but in case you do, since the message tells me to make room and delete files, here goes. Now, if I need to make space and delete files, this is where I get confused and it's probably very simple but I'm still a relatively new Mac user and I still can't seem to find all the info about my Mac! I'm not exactly sure how much space I have left on my hard drive. I had to replace my hard drive last December and the invoice says it is a 500 GB 7200 SATA hard drive. For some reason I thought I had more than that. Regardless, System Profiler shows 10.26 GB currently available, 499.76 used; I assume that the used portion includes my partitioned drive that has my virtual machine on it? I may be using the wrong language when calling it that but that's how I understand it as a "partitioned drive". Now, when looking at the System Profiler, under Volumes, Capacity 209 MB writable diskOs1 - I think this my Virtual Machine. I also have three Western Digital drives that I use for Time Machine and for pictures and music; however, as I said, I am still new with Macs and do not fully understand the file structure so there may be pictures on my Mac hard drive that are duplicated on 1 or more of my WD drives but I don't know how to find them or if I do, I'm afraid to delete them. Of these WD external drives, 1 is 500 GB and is full with Time Machine backups; the 2nd WD drive is 3 TB and has 2.18 TB available and is currently being used for Time Machine backups; the final WD drive is 1 TB Firewire and currently has 694.33 GB available.
Any help would be appreciated. Please forgive any inaccurate terms or mis-statements of terminology as I do not really know what I'm talking about as far as the pieces and parts of the operating system; I'm just trying my best to describe what I see.
One more piece of advice that I would appreciate would be recommendations about a good file cleaner, for duplicates, messy file structure, space utilization software; it also needs to be idiot proof software. I have a trial version of Appdelete that I never really used and I have the purchased version of Tune Up My Mac that I haven't spent much time with because I'm afraid I'll delete something I shouldn't
Thank you for your help
Memalyn

Hi Memalyn
Essentially, the bare issue is that you have a 500GB hard drive with only 10GB free. That is not sufficient to run the system properly. The two options you have are to move/remove files to another location, or to install a larger hard drive (eg 2TB). Drive space has nothing to do with SMC firmware, and usually large media files are to blame.
My first recommendation is this: download and run the free OmniDiskSweeper. This will identify the exact size of all your folders - you can drill down into the subfolders and figure out where your largest culprits are. For example, you might find that your Pictures folder contains both an iPhoto Library and copies that you've brought in from a camera but are outside the iPhoto Library structure. Or perhaps you have a lot of purchased video content in iTunes.
If you find files that you KNOW you do not need, you can delete them. Don't delete them just because you have a backup, since if the backup fails, you will lose all your copies.
Don't worry about "cleaners" for now - they don't save much space and can actually cause problems. Deal with the large file situation first and see how you get on.
Let us know what you find out, and if you manage to get your space back.
Matt

What can i do about a full startup disc?

what can i do about a full startup disc?

Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion's Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

Selected wrong startup disc help get it back to orig hd, flashing ? folder

was told to start new topic, i was in the process of doing a clean install from a purchased imac, heres my last steps and cd's on hand.my model im told i have is a iMac DV Special Edition (Summer 2000) Model PowerMac4,2 prior to my mess, it had 9.2.2 installed and all the updates and firmware.
plz help me to get me back to my desktop and to help do a fresh install, note the 3 cd's i have are not updates cd's only the mac os 9 it has a orange nine
all wording on the cd's are mentioned below
1-software restore cd says version ssw version 9.0 691-2466-A for imac dv models
2-software install cd says for imac dv models ssw version 9.0 691-2465-A
3-cd mac os9 w/sherlock version 9.2.1 1z691-3283-A mac os 9.2.1 update cd.
this is what my last step was before i got the flashing ? in a folder possible searching for a voulme that has the past sofware installed. I found on the mac last nite a thing called macintosh hard drive from within one of the cds while
i was trying to make a clean install (just learning) so I draged and drop that
mackintosh hd icon into the hard drive on the desktop icon. And then I went to the control panel and - startup disc- and made my next startup boot to be for the macintosh hard drive start up volume. That was all I did and it was
my last work that I did do, and then when I restarted, I now see ths error ? mark
in a folder with a finder mac face like. Sorry I always type a lot and probably don't make sence. As I feel its searching for a correct start up
volume boot to the desktop, I may be wrong. i just want to get back to my normal last install i had, which had no problems , i just wanted to make it clean was all. thank you
so my main concern is that the startup vulume is wrong its use to say hard drive only but i made an additional one and one called it macintosh hard drive.

Seems you must've had the Option key held down.
Not sure if the HD is bootable anymore... perhaps you replaced the System Folder?
Did you try the PRAM reset & wait for 5 tones?
1-software restore cd says version ssw version 9.0 691-2466-A for imac dv models
Can't find the number, but if this doesn't boot with the c key, then no go.
2-software install cd says for imac dv models ssw version 9.0 691-2465-A
No Go.
3-cd mac os9 w/sherlock version 9.2.1 1z691-3283-A mac os 9.2.1 update cd.
Not an Install CD & not Bootable...
http://www.welovemacs.com/1z6913283a.html
You need something like...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Apple-Mac-9-0-Software-CD-9-1-9-2-1-9-2-2-9-2_W0QQitemZ11023 2258071QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item110232258071
Or...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Mac-OS-9-2-1-Install-CD_W0QQitemZ160217041341QQcmdZViewItem? hash=item160217041341
Not recommending this in anyway, just to show what you need.

In attempting to install recommended software updates I get a message saying my startup disc is full. I have an Intel-based desktop with 1GB memory. What can I safely remove?

In attempting to install recommended software updates I get a message that my startup disc is full. I have an iMac (intel-based) with 1GB memory. I suspect my iTunes library is using up much of the space (I have no movies installed and have already copied most of my photos to a DVD to free up space). If I follow the instructions to move my iTunes library to an external HD (can I use a flash drive?) will I have enough working memory to plug it back in for use when I want to access the library?

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
Moving libraries off the boot disk while doable is not very viable. It creates many new problems in backing up your data, as now you have more than one source to backup. See my backup FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
My suggestion is to get at least two copies of all your essential data in one manner or another, and get a larger boot hard drive to replace what you currently use to be able to consolidate your libraries.
As for cleaning space, see my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/diskfull.html

I need a startup disc for a 722c

I lost my startup disc for a hp722c. Is there somewhere I could get a replacement? thanks
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Hello 2boot.
Currently, there's nowhere you can get a replacement for the driver CD. You can download drivers from the hp web site. From this link, you can select your operating system and download a driver for your computer.
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Mac Mini - Disc Warrior - Will not respond to new startup Disc

Problem:
I ran disc warrior and rebuilt and replaced the directory simply as maint and to deal with a few crash issues. After quitting Disc Warrior I held the option key (on a new low profile Apple Keyboard - wired) to open startup disc assistant. Computer continues to boot from the disc. I cannot find a single way to change the startup disc from within Disc Warrior either.
I then determined that there is no power going to the keyboard until after the time period needed when holding the option key or even trying to use the firmware keyboard shortcut. I determined this by pressing the caps lock key. The green light on the caps lock does not come on until well after the initial startup sound.
Is there a way to open terminal when the computer is booted from a disc? Is there a way around this? I've tried unplugging every peripheral except the keyboard and the power issue still persists.
No matter what I do, the computer still boots from the disc. I tried opening system prefs from the apple menu but it is grayed out.
Any help would be great. Thanks

Unfortunately, this seems to be an issue with the new aluminum keyboards: they do not seem to allow you to access the Startup Manager. Do you have a wired mouse? If so, you could plug it directly to the Mini (just to be safe), start the Mini, press and hold the mouse button right after the startup chime until the CD ejects. The Mini should then boot to Mac OS X.
If you have an Intel Mini, it may be even easier: pressing and holding your Apple Remote's "menu" button right after the startup chime should have the same effect as using the Option key on a keyboard.

My macbook pro will not startup, startup disc is full

my macbook pro will not startup, startup disc is full

Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.
If you are no longer able to boot your computer, then the drive is too full and has become corrupted. You may be able to repair it using Disk Utility on your Installer DVD:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Tiger 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 Utilities menu. 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.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro 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.
If this doesn't work, then you will have to erase the drive and install OS X from scratch. From the Tiger installer disc you will choose the Erase and Install install option.

Full startup disc

A warning just appeared on my screen: Your startup disc is almost full. You need to....
How do I access my startup disc, and how to I make more space on it? Incidentally, I only recently had my memory increased from 2 to 4 GB.

Kappy wrote:
Memory has nothing to do with your hard drive. If your hard drive is full then you have a few alternatives:
1. Replace the drive with a larger one.
2. Buy an external drive and move some files to the external drive.
3. Delete any of your files you no longer need.
Your "startup disc" is your hard drive - the drive icon that's on your Desktop.
That is a shock. It seems that I was better off with my old iMac. I never had any spinning balls with it, and I never received any message saying that my startup disc was getting filled. So the money I spent on the increased money was wasted. I would have been much better off if I had just had my old set fixed, but silly me thought that a newer model with much more memory and two Intel processors would put my old set in the shade. Well, my old set was superior in very way that counts. Well, I guess I'll just follow my thoughts and get the old thing fixed. Thanks for the information, though.

Startup Disc Almost Full?!

I just received a notification that my startup disc is almost full. I have appx. 5 gb of memory used up on my macbook pro; why am I getting this notification. I even checked my finder and it says I still have close to 160 GB of memory available. My computer recently crashed due to a hard drive malfunction and was under the impression that they completely replaced the drive. Is there a chance they didn't and all that information is still on it? If thats the case, why would it warn me my disc is almost full but my finder still says I have all this memory left.
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When I say I used up 5GB of hard drive I meant on top of the standard programs that come with the operating system. I'm not really sure my model MBP and ram but its a standard Macbook Pro with no customization. The recent work was done at my local Apple store and I am almost sure they said they completely replaced the drive, due to a "malfunction" and could not retrieve any previous information on my drive. I was downloading legal music torrents when I got the prompt, but I'm begging to think its not really not worth sweating because I have not got the prompt again and according to Disc Inventory X I have over 150GB of free space still. Still curious however as to why I would get a warning that my startup disc is almost full...

Frozen iMac not recognized as startup disc after reformat

So our iMac (Mountain Lion OS) was running slow, to a crawl, and after a restart would hang on the gray screen/ spinner. Several attempts to reboot were fruitless. The fan was blaring on reboot attempts. Tried then to boot in Safe Mode - which would also hang on the gray screen. Tried zapping PRAM (which resolved the fan issue), booting as Single or Verbose, etc.- none of this stuff seemed to work.
Eventually we were able to boot off a USB drive. Awesome. Went to Disc Utility. The Macintosh HD was "dimmed out" in the device list, however it was still selectable so we ran Verify... which it could not complete. It prompted us to Repair Disc. After hitting repair, it tells us the disc is not repairable and we need to reformat. Awesome.
Ran the reformat. No problems. Reinstalled system. No problems. Rebooted computer- hangs on gray screen AGAIN. Same deal running through the usual reboot scenarios. No dice. So we booted off the USB again. Ran the Verify/ Repair and all seems to check out fine. Go to startup disc to restart system- our harddrive does not even show up as a startup disc option!
I've been using Macs forever and never seen this one. Totally stumped. Any offers of help or ideas would be hugely appreciated. This iMac is only about 2.5 years old. Mostly used as a gaming system for the kids.
Thanks
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Run Apple Hardware test in extended mode a minimum of 3x back to back. If you receive hardware errors (as I anticipate) then you know you have a hardware issue. I suspect the HD is dying. Because we don't know which iMac you own it's difficult to say if the HD is easy to replace or not. What I mean is if you own a 2009 or later iMac Apple began installing HD's that had fan sensors integrated into the HD, most off the shelf HD's don't have that feature. If you have 2009 or later machine then I'd recommend contacting OWC (www.macsales.com) to look for options. Your other option of course is to take the machine into your local Apple Store or AASP for a HD replacement.

Used imac g3, no startup disc

Hello everyone! I am very new to the mac community, in fact, this is my first! My best friend gave me her husbands old imac G3, it is a really pretty blue color. He had it before they met, and it never got used so I got it. The only problem is, there is no manual, no software/cd's, and there is an old user account on there that I would like to get rid of. Is there a place to get the startup discs, can i delete the original owner off of it? Please help, any suggestions would be great!
Thank you!

I would advise extreme caution before deleting any thing. Getting the replacement OS software for these machines will be difficult.
Do not delete anything.
What version of Mac OS do you have?
Report system info
Blue apple > about this Mac
If the apple has mulitple colors, you are running classic.
What iMac do you have?
Report system info
Blue apple > about this Mac
click on more info
click on hardware
do not copy your serial number

Factory Reset - Is startup disc needed?

Hey,
So it appears that I have encountered a virus on my 2009 macbook. Weird ads keep popping up in google chrome and safari no longer opens.
My motherboard needs to be replaced as the headphone jack is not functioning and my disc drive is non responsive with a disc trapped inside.
I realize it is an older model, but it still functions fairly well. In the fall a new hard drive was installed as the computer became incredibly slow. I was running Snow Leopard at the time. I took it in to a licensed repair guy and he installed the new hard drive and updated me with Lion however my computer has been slower since specifically Safari. Hence downloads of Chrome and Firefox.
Anyways to deal with the virus I am wanting to backup my hard drive, and reset to factory settings, however with a broken disc drive I am wondering whether or not I need a startup disc.
Thanks.

It is not necessary to reset to factory settings. You don't have a virus, just some obnoxious adware. See my Adware Removal Guide, which will help you find and get rid of it.
(Fair disclosure: The Safe Mac is my site, and contains a Donate button, so I may receive compensation for providing links to The Safe Mac. Donations are not required.)

Startup disc

How do I cleanup my startup disc?

Freeing Up Space on The Hard Drive
1. See Lion's Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
Try using OmniDiskSweeper 1.8 or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.

About the Apple Hardware Test in Replacement Application Disc...

I would like to know if an Applications Disc replacement ordered from AppleCare will include the Apple Hardware Test or AHT. A few months ago I had to reorder both my OSX install and Application disc because they were damaged out of the box. Now I know that Apple send the correct disc because the replacement disc have the same part number as the original ones, however the replacement application disc does not have the small test that says: "For Apple Hardware Test, press down the "D" key on startup." (or something like that) as the original one does. Which makes me wonder if indeed the replacement application disc sent by AppleCare really includes the Apple Hardware Test.
Tell me what you think, Does a replacement Application disc sent by Apple include the Apple Hardware Test?
Now, I must tell you that my current complementary phone support has expired and I am waiting to get AppleCare but that won't be after January 2011 (I am a college student, and I am saving money for the AppleCare extended warranty).
Thank you for your assistance in this matter.

rkaufmann87 wrote:
AHT is on the original OS X Install disc that came with the computer! Had you read the Apple Advice Letter I posted earlier you would have seen that.
I understand that, however my MacBook Pro is a 2010 one and the report says that the Apple AHT is in the Applications Disc since it was bought in a Snow Leopard era. The article clearly states that after 10.5.5 AHT will be in the original application disc that comes in your computer, and as posted above my application disc was damaged out of the box. That's why I odered a replacement application disc. However, the new application disc does not have a text that indicates that says "For Apple Hardware Test, press the "D" key on start up" as the original application disc, it just says 15" MacBook Pro Application disc. I assume that the AHT should still be in the replacement disc because it has the same part number as my original disc. Anyways, I read the whole article and it does not mention anything about AHT in AppleCare replacement disc.
I hope this clears up some things about this post.

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