Trying to restore my MacBook....
I saw a few post saying to hold down the option key & a recovery HD or something of that works would pop up but it isn't on mine. Is there an other way around it? I really don't want to pay for support over the phone.
On your early 2008 MacBook, you may have to use the original OS X DVD to boot from in order to erase the hard drive, if that's what you want to do.
OS X 10.7 and 10.8 have a recovery partition, which is accessed by booting and holding the command and r keys down or holding the alt/option key down. If that doesn't work, then when you upgraded to Lion or Mountain Lion, it wasn't completed correctly, as there is no recovery partition.
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If it shipped with Mac OS X 10.6.8 or earlier, you need its original thumbdrive. If you don't have that, click here and order a replacement.
If it shipped with Mac OS X 10.7 or newer, restart the computer with the Option, Command, and R keys held down.
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Hi everyone
I need help?
I bought my MacBook pro 17" in may 2012 and I've only used it for iTunes and to surf the net.
I gathered that I wasn't really using it to its full potential. I'm selling it now and wanted to restore it.
I think I've pressed command a r and reloaded lion on to it.
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Please can I have some help never had a mac before all I want is to set it too factory settings please.Install or Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion from Scratch
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 Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Erase the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
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Trying to restore my macbook, and im not the administrator what best way to do.?
im not the administrator of this macbook how can i restore to a factory settings.?
To the best of my knowledge Administartor Privilages are needed to Perform what you ask...
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Hey, everyone. Just a quick question. I know that to reset a macbook to it's factory settings without the disk you press the OPTION key during startup; however, when you do so, apparently you see 2 hard drives and one says "recovery." When I do it, I only see one hard drive that does not say recovery. Any one know why this could be? Thanks so much for any help offered.
shldr2thewheel wrote:
that option is only for 10.7 and higher. for 10.6 you need the disk.
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Supposedly, I should have had a choice on the screen between "Macintosh HD" and "Restore" but my
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Did you ever have an External Disk that you backed up to?
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I tried Disk Utility. I can see the external drive, and did a repair disk and verify disk. Several times. Each time it says "This partition map seems to be ok."
However, I am not able to mount it, as that option is greyed out and i can't select it.
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I need this to mount, as it has all of my itunes stuff on it; dozens of my sons movies, and my entire iTunes library.
PLEASE HEEEEELP!! HOW CAN I MOUNT THIS EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE? Thank you in advanceTry things in this USB/Firewire faq.
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This web site might answer all of your Time machine questions:
http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html
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No there's not. Otherwise that wouldn't be very secure, would it?
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I have had a series of Macs. They have been backed up with Time Machine. I am trying to restore TM backup files from the older Macs using my new MacBook Pro. No go. What do I do ?
I am trying to restore TM backup files from the older Macs using my new MacBook Pro. No go.
Migration Assistant (Finder > Applications > Utilities > Migration Assistant) is the tool that you would use to restore backups from older Macs to another Mac.
Details are here: http://pondini.org/OSX/MigrateLion.html The same info applies for Mavericks and Yosemite. If you are saying that this is a "no go".....where are you getting stuck? What error messages do you see? -
Trying to restore Macbook Pro back up from Time Machine.
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I think you are not restoring your files in the correct way.
If what you want to do is to restore a complete Time Machine backup, you have to do it in OS X Recovery, so first hold Command and R keys while your Mac is starting up. Then, choose the option to restore a Time Machine backup, and follow its steps.
If you want to restore individual files, you cannot restore that type of user files because you are using them. Instead, you can restore individual files in your user folders. Read > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1427 -
There was some updayts for my iPad 4 automatically downloaded. After installing it, the iPad began to restart itself every few minutes.
I tryed to update my iPad using iTunes. After connecting to MacBook Pro, where is installed all latest software, iPad is recognised as "iPad", Serial Number: n/a. iTunes run recovery mode, trying to restore iPad firmware, and in the end unknown error occured (3). Tried many times, not results. And now iPad stays only in recovery mode, can't switch it off. How can I solve this problem please?When I restart my iPad the connect to iTunes comes up and stays on until it shuts down again, I have read a report from Apple support suggesting I reinstall iTunes so I might try that again and also your suggestion which i shall also try, but thanks again - rg1547
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