Restore imac after wiping system clean

Without any disks if I wipe the hard drive how do I get an OS installed?

If you're running Yosemite as your info indicates you don't wipe the entire hard drive just the boot partition and then reinstall from the recovery partition
OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support
If your iMac meets the requirements you can reinstall using Internet Recovery.
If you're wiping the drive in order to sell the iMac you need to use either the original install discs or a Snow Leopard retail disc What to do before selling or giving away your Mac - Apple Support

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How do I install OS X Lion on my MacBook Pro after wiping it clean, and I don't have the original installation disk I bought?

I'm selling my MacBook Pro (2009) which has Lion installed. After I wipe the computer clean, I assume the system will go back to its factory settings that it came with. I'll need to reinstall Lion, but I don't have the original disk. How do I proceed to reinstall it?

Did the Macbook come with Lion preinstalled or did you upgrade to it?
You need to sell it with the original OS installed, so if that was not Lion, you need to get the install disks by calling Apple and asking for replacement disks (they'll need your serial number).
FWIW, Lion did not come with an install disk - it is download only. If Lion was preinstalled, then post back for instructions on how to do that.

Video graphics card after wiping dv6000 clean and starting over with windows 7

i recently had a virus on my hp pavilion dv6000 notebook and it ate pretty much everything. the person who worked on my computer just started it over new with windows 7. this notebook was originally windows vista. i have tried to install the sims 3 which i have just bought brand new and it keeps saying that the video graphics card is not supported. i went to the update i found on hp.com but there isn't a choice in the systems options for windows 7 on this notebook model. what do i do now?

seems like sims 3 does not support your hardware w/c is your graphics card. updating drivers wont do much
but still if you want to update your graphics driver try going to hp.com and place in the search box your laptops product number and the hit enter, look for software and driver downloads link and you will see therer all the applicable updates for your hardware..

Alternative Options after wiping system?

want to erase hard drive mem but do not have disk or remember the original apple id password. System stared with snow leopard and have obviously upgraded to mavericks since that point. thoughts?

You could always call Apple (# at bottom of this page) and, with your serial number handy, oder a machine-specific set of discs that were original to your computer. Cost is a bit over $20, I think.
Clinton

TS1541 I took my iMac to the store and they wiped it clean and helped me reinstall from a back up but we did not have time to finish the reinstall of all the pictures, when I got home I followed the directions and ii got a message saying that I am nadmini

I was having problems with the software and iTunes, took the iMac to the apple store and they wiped it clean and then helped me restore from my backup. W were able to do most of it but had the pictures left, and it would take to much time, so they sent me home with instructions, I followed the instructions to the letter but got a message saying that the pictures could not be installed because I was not the administrator and I am stuck, can someone out there help me?

Go to System Preferences/Accounts
Click on your name
Select 'Allow user to administer this computer'

1.Backup to External drive 2. CoverArt lost after Windows system restore

I recently spent many hours searching for and applying cover art for my music which was mostly ripped before cover art was readily available.
Because of this investment, I want to be sure my library is fully backed up. I want to use space on an external drive, rather than DVD's.
I noticed as I added art, iTunes started acting sluggish. I thought it might be because of the new version or a recent Windows Vista update. So I decided to run system restore. I was appalled to discover that restore wiped out the art I had added. So I reversed the restore and the cover art returned. It became clear to me that the art must be stored in some other way than in the actual music file. I've searched the forum and found others who had problems with system restore, but no explanation of exactly what I should do if I want to proceed with a system restore. I use system restore several times a year and I have never lost anything in iTunes before I started adding cover art. I also never had a problem with sluggishness til I added a bunch of cover art.
My library is large at 3000 items.
Is there a way to compact or optimize the database to improve responsiveness?
Is there a way to backup to an external drive? Is it just a file copy and export library file?
If I export the library as an xml file before I do a system restore, can I then replace it after the restore and protect my cover art.

To be completely sure what you're doing please take a look at your iTunes Folder and see what Vista stores inside it. To find it, go to Start>Computer>Hard Disk C>Users>Your Name>Music>iTunes>.......
Please note there is an artwork folder PLUS a music folder!
My guess is that your system restore point pre-dated the time you added artwork to your iTunes files. (Celebrate that system restore still works for you--I have not been able to successfully restore for over a year now--Norton Internet Security causes system restore failures for many Windows users! I've tried to do this using Windows XP and Vista--and I can never successfully restore anymore.)
To fully backup your library, just copy the entire iTunes folder to another source--second hard drive, USB drive, or burn it to a CD or DVD, etc.
If you're experiencing "sluggishness" it may be due to the amount of RAM on your system. iTunes needs a great deal of RAM to run smoothly. You can choose to: increase the RAM on your system, OR, turn off cover flow/album view and see if things run more smoothly.

I have recently restored everything on my iMac after getting a new hard drive. When i try to use Elements, i get the following error code ERROR 150:30. Any ideas?

I have recently restored everything on my iMac after getting a new hard drive. When i try to use Elements, i get the following error code ERROR 150:30. Any ideas?

Did you use migration assistant to copy over programs, documents, and settings? You can't do that with PSE. Elements is not a tidy package in accordance with the apple developer guidelines. The installer strews stuff all of your hard drive in place the migration assistant isn't programmed to look and you can never hope to find all h the bits. You must always install PSE from scratch on a new machine. By attempting to copy it you have made a lot of trouble for yourself.
You will need to download and run this:
Use the CC Cleaner Tool to solve installation problems | CC, CS3-CS6
and then you can go around and manually remove what you can reach. Look in applications, your hard drive>library>application support>adobe, your username>library>preferences. In the user library also delete any saved application states for PSE.
Then you can reinstall from scratch.

How can I install the programms again after a system restore?

After my system went down, right after installation of the programms with the Adobe Applicaton Manager, I had to restore the system. Of course by then all the installed applications weren't working.
I will have to reinstall them. But unfortunately I can't download and install the applications again because AAM thinks they are allready installed. Thus far nothing works. Who can help me?

Run the Cleaner tool to remove all the Adobe Software and then check in the AAM.
To download the Cleaner tool :- www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html

I am a newbie...and I think I did a big no-no as my Ipad isn't working. I synced it to a second computer at work which is a new Imac after already syncing to my pc at home with Itunes. Now it says it can't restore and can't get it to open. HELP!

I am a newbie...and I think I did a big no-no as my Ipad isn't working. I synced it to a second computer at work which is a new Imac after already syncing to my pc at home with Itunes. Now it says it can't restore and can't get it to open, getting error messages but can't fix myself. Can anyone help??

iPad can connect only in one iTunes Library. If you want to connect it to a iTunes Library then you have to erase it. You can erase it from iTunes. Make sure you iPad doesn't have a password, or if it has a password make sure that you connect to the computer and enter the password of your iPad

How to restore iTunes library after operating system changed?

How to restore iTune library after operating system changed on the laptop? The syn is not working because it doesn't recognize the computer.

Recovering your iTunes library from your iPod or iOS device: Apple Support Communities
Syncing to a "New" Computer or replacing a "crashed" Hard Drive: Apple Support Communities
Sync Your iOS Device with a New Computer Without Losing Data - How-To Geek

Uploading previous iWeb work after a system restore?

How do I upload previous iWeb work after a system restore?
I backed up my data on a Hard-drive then I did a factory reset or restore of my hard-drive....
Now I am attempting to open my previous iWeb work online and it is not working please help.....

Your domain.sites2 file is the file that iWeb stores all its data and it is this file that you need if you want to continue updating your website in iWeb.
It is found under your User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder and then the domain.sites file.
Your user library is the one with the house and this is where your personal user information is stored as opposed to your System Library which is general and where iWeb is not.
If you don't have your domain.sites file then you will have to re-build your site from scratch as iWeb does not have the ability to read or open html files - so a previously published site - it is a one way street creating html files upon publishing.

Restore iPhoto after hard drive has been wiped?

My Macbook Pro Hard Drive recently failed and the Apple store wiped it clean. I had a number of important photos on iPhoto and I am wondering if there is any way to retrieve these? Being that they were added recently to my computer via my iPhone (they were deleted from the iPhone after they were imported), they are not backed up to any hard drive. I have iCloud on both the computer and the iPhone, but I am unable to retrieve images from that on the phone or the mac. For some reason photo stream was not working when I synced my phone to iCloud last.
Is there any way to retrieve photos from iPhoto or the iPhone (after they have been deleted?).
This is critical because I have recently left a rental and the pictures were taken before I moved in and after I left and now the land lord is attempting to accuse me of ruining the place.
Thanks.

There is a extreme possibility you can recover deleted files from the hard drive provided:
1: The Apple folks did a quick format, which they likely did as a Zero erase would take hours.
2: Where the old files were located on the drive hasn't been overwritten yet with new data.
3: Your competant in spending $100 for Data Rescue and install OS X on a external boot drive (blank)
Create a data recovery, undelete boot drive
The Apple folks shouldn't hae erased your drive without allowing you the opportunity to perform data recovery efforts, since they don't perform this function you should have consulted here first or got more info and not allow them ot erase your drive.
A local PC/Mac computer fix-it could have recovered the data first, then you could have taken it to Apple if you did't have a backup yet.
Most commonly used backup methods

Kernel panic after full system restore

Yesterday I noticed that my computer was quite slow. Seeing as how the hd has never been formatted since I have bought the computer in 2006 I thought the drive was badly fragmented. Since there are no free defrag solutions available for mac, I thought I would just format the drive and do a system restore using time machine. I did a full format with 1 pass of zeros then did a system restore. After the restore when the computer rebooted, I got a kernel panic. The kernel panic mentioned something along the lines of "Version mis-match between Kernel and CPU". I then chose to restore to an earlier backup but that yielded the same results.
I have done a lot of googling and most of the solutions to this problem indicate that the restore is being initiated from a Leopard install disc rather than a Snow Leopard install disc. I am using a snow leopard disc.
In the end, I did get my system working by installing snow leopard over top of itself then applying the latest combo update. The reason for this post is so I can hopefully find out why I got the kernel panic. This incident had cost me a lot of time and if I cannot rely on time machine as a backup solution then there is really no point in using it.
Thanks.

eradicator006 wrote:
Yesterday I noticed that my computer was quite slow. Seeing as how the hd has never been formatted since I have bought the computer in 2006 I thought the drive was badly fragmented.
Doubtful. See: [About disk optimization with Mac OS X|http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1375].
In the end, I did get my system working by installing snow leopard over top of itself then applying the latest combo update. The reason for this post is so I can hopefully find out why I got the kernel panic. This incident had cost me a lot of time and if I cannot rely on time machine as a backup solution then there is really no point in using it.
Something in your installation of OSX was probably corrupted, damaged, or missing, and Time Machine backed up the corruption (as would any backup utility). So when you restored, you brought the problem back.
That's likely also the reason your Mac was running "quite slow."

After Restoring/Backup of File System XI Java Instances are not up!

Hello all,
We are facing problem in restoring the SAP XI System, after taking backup of the system the java instances in SAP XI System are not starting again. ABAP connections are fine.
Can anyone provide suggestions/solutions in order to restore the XI System back.
The system information is as follows.
System Component: SAP NetWeaver 2004s, PI 7.0
Operating System: SunOS 5.9, SunOS 5.10
Database: ORACLE 9.2.0.
Regards,
Ketan Patel

If it´s REALLY a PI 7.0 (SAP_BASIS 700 and WebAS Java 7.00) then it´s not compatible. WebAS 7.00 needs Oracle 10g (http://service.sap.com/pam)
Also see
http://service.sap.com/nw2004s
--> Availibility
--> SAP NetWeaver 7.0 (2004s) PAM
If you open the Powerpoint, you will see that Oracle 9 is not listed. I wonder, how you got that installed.
Neverless, if you recover a Java instance, both filesystem and database content (of the Java schema) must be in sync, means, you need to restore both, database (schema) and filesystem, that have been backed up at the same time.
Check Java Backup and Restore :
Restoring the System
 1. Shut down the system.
 2. Install a new AS Java system using SAPInst, or restore the file system from the offline backups that you created.
 3. Import the database backup using the relevant tools provided by the database vendor.
 4. Overwrite the SAP system directory /usr/sap/.
 5. Start the system (see Starting and Stopping SAP NetWeaver ABAP and Java.)
The J2EE Engine is restored with the last backup.
Markus

A few days ago(after a system restore) the firefox 15.0.1 crashes every time i opened(in a few secondes or in 1-2 minutes)

a few days (after a system restore )the firefox 15.0.1 chrashing and freezing every time i open it.in a safe mode i dont have any problem ,but i cant find if blame any addon or anything else.im unistalling and reinstall the update or older version(14 ,15.0)but the problem remain.what can i do?i have win 7 ultimate

If the problems arose after a restore from a Windows restore point you may need to resort to reinstalling Firefox, as sometimes Windows restores have been known to break Firefox.
Security software including Firewalls is another problem that can slow Firefox or cause it not to work. You need to ensure the security software recognises the current version of Firefox (Again I wonder if a Windows restore may have affected this also.)
* [[Configure Windows Firewall to allow Firefox access to the Internet]]
*also see [[Firefox hangs or is not responding - How to fix]]
If you are getting crashes are you able to provide the Crash IDs for a couple of recent crashes.
* see [[Firefox crashes - Troubleshoot, prevent and get help fixing crashes]] they can be found by navigating to about:crashes
Also see
* [[Firefox does not work - Common fixes to get you back up and running]]
*[[Configure Windows Firewall to allow Firefox access to the Internet]]
Apparently you say there is no problem in Safe Mode, if so try Firefox with Hardware Acceleration off, if that helps then instead of leaving it off look at your graphics drivers.
* see [[Troubleshoot extensions, themes and hardware acceleration issues to solve common Firefox problems#w_turn-off-hardware-acceleration]]_turn-off-hardware-acceleration
* maybe your graphics driver rolled back on the restore, and needs reinstalling see [[Upgrade your graphics drivers to use hardware acceleration and WebGL]]

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