Unmounting any drive

I can mount drives successfully(although sometimes I get weird mount names like /media/5cad67-agh/), but whenever I try to umount a drive from a file manager I get this error.
Error unmounting: umount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
umount: only root can unmount UUID=0E54805E42FA4E6E from /media/sdb2
When this happens I have to go into the terminal and type
sudo umount /media/sdb2
This is with every device usb or not. Mp3 players, flash drives, kindle, phone etc. I am thinking this is a hal issue. Help? Thank you!

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MacBook Pro HD issues; won't boot to any drive; need to recover data

*Apologies in advance for the lengthy post. I just want to be sure I include as much detail as possible. Thanks in advance for reading all of this and offering any thoughts and suggestions.
I have a 13-inch late 2011 MacBook Pro running OS 10.7.
The computer recently began booting slower and slower until finally one day it did nothing but show the gray boot screen with the apple and a spinning circle and/or progress bar at the bottom. It won't do anything else. I assume it's the HD; no surprise there. What's killing me is that no matter what I do, I can't boot to any disk, internal or external, can't mount it in target disk mode, and can't repair it or recover data, which is a first for me with any HD. However, the computer still clearly sees the drive, and the drive sounds and runs normally (meaning no clicks; appropriate amount of whirs and such).
What I've done so far:
Reset PRAM — no help
Reset SMC — no help
Boot in Safe Mode — same result as regular boot: gray logo screen with spinning wheel
Disk Utility message:
Verify Disk — "Error: This disk nees to be repaired. Click Repair Disk."
Repair Disk — gets as far as "Checking catalog file" then shows "Keys out of order". Next is "Rebuilding catalog B-tree." Then "The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired."
fsck — same as Disk Utility: "Keys out of order (4, 22016)", "Rebuilding catalog B-tree", then "The volume Macintosh HD could not be repaired." FILE SYSTEM WAS MODIFIED." ...over and over again
If I hold Option while starting the computer, it gives me only two drives to boot from, regardless of any other external HDs or flash drives I have attached: Macintosh HD (internal), and Recovery HD (internal partition). If I choose Macintosh HD, it's hit or miss whether it prompts the Disk Utility screen or just gray-screens forever. If I choose Recovery HD, it successfully runs Disk Utility every time. Here's the thing, though — if I attach an external HD, it doesn't see it during the initial Option-startup. However, from Disk Utility I'm able to select a startup disk from the menu to restart into. It sees the externals in there every time and lets me select them as startup disks, but upon restart it returns to the gray Apple logo screen with spinning wheel and/or progress bar at bottom. Sometimes it also sees the internal Macintosh HD here, but selecting that is useless. I can't actually boot from any disk, internal or external, running full OS or even just recovery software.
I've tried using TechTool Pro 8's edisk and ProToGo bootable drives, but again, the MacBook only sees them from Disk Utility only (not on Option-start), and I can select them, but it doesn't actually boot to them; it reverts back to gray screen.
I've installed a full version of OS 10.10.2 on an external hard drive, complete with DiskWarrior 4 on it, but same problem as above — it sees it in the "Select Startup Disk" menu, but not in the initial Option-start or successful reboot.
I've tried booting from a DiskWarrior 4 DVD using C-startup. It recognizes and spins the DVD from the get-go. Eventually it boots to it (after about 20 minutes or so of reading the DVD). I'm able to launch DiskWarrior 4 and start a rebuild. However, it goes all the way through "Step 6: Constructing optimized replacement directory... Overlapped files detected: 7 ...Step 7: Finishing construction ...Step 8: Reading from disc, one moment please..." and then the computer kernel panicked. This happened several times. I reset the PRAM again, then retried DiskWarrior DVD boot, this avoided a kernel panic and it got as far as "Comparing directories... Step 9: Recording any file or folder differences; 3,449,089,956 tests..." and then DiskWarrior and the computer both freeze and I have to force shutdown.
The drive will not mount to another laptop in Target Disk Mode.
Disk Arbitrator immediately sees the the faulty laptop HD, but won't let me mount or unmount it. It's just there, grayed out.
Data Rescue 4 is able to see the faulty laptop HD through Target Disk Mode, even though the drive itself will not mount to my desktop. I am able to scan the drive using DR4, and start a data recovery process. However, DR4 is dumping all recovered data into "User Defined" ai (Adobe Illustrator) files, which makes absolutely no sense at all. What's more, the files aren't able to be opened by any program. Even files that it hasn't recovered into ai files, like txt and mpegs, cannot be opened. I've tried recovering from both the drive itself and from a clone of the drive (made through DR4), with the same result each time.
So, all of that said, I guess my first question is what the **** is going on? The drive mechanically is functioning fine, but there seems to be an issue with its readability (and the directory/files?).
What's more, why won't this laptop mount ANY drive? I should be able to Option-boot into any drive, especially if the USB ports, drives, and OS's are all fully functional, right? Is there any workaround I'm missing? Even if the internal drive and data are just screwed, what's causing a total lack of mounting or booting of any drive, internal or external?

Holy crap, I got it to work.
Essentially, I just waited until DiskWarrior reached Step 9 and told it to skip the step before it had a chance to freeze. It skipped successfully, moved on, rebuilt and replaced the faulty directory files.
So far the computer is booting like normal, I can log in, and I'm currently copying all of the data to an external as I type this.
I still have no idea why the computer wouldn't mount or boot to any drive, but I guess I'll deal with that later.

Mavericks and unmounting external drive issues upon sleep

Greetings fellow Mavericks users,
I'm hoping someone here can provide some insight as to how to correct the issue I'm experiencing.
Little background:
I was using 10.6.8 for years on a 2008 Mac Pro. I saw no reason to update the OS until I recently acquired a USB 3.0 PCI card and an external drive. In order to use my new hardware, I had no choice but to upgrade to a new version of OSX. Rather than spend money, I took advantage of the free 10.9.2 upgrade available for my machine. The upgrade went surprisingly well with no major hiccups or problems encountered. Yes, a few apps and programs I had running prior to the upgrade were no longer compatible but in the grand scheme of things, my Mac Pro was still alive and kicking along with my most important programs and data. In fact, the upgrade to 10.9.2 fixed a sleep issue I had with 10.6.8 which required the use of an app called PleaseSleep. I don't need that app anymore as the machine goes to sleep and wakes up fine.
Now, on to my dilemma. Prior to the upgrade, I was using an external USB 2.0 drive to house media that I'd share between multiple network devices around the house via SMB (AFP stinks in this regard, hence my refusal to use it); i.e. BoxeeBox. I had run out of space on the USB2 drive hence the need to move everything to my new external USB3 drive that's connected to an internal USB3 PCI controller. The first problem I ran into was that Mavericks now uses Apple's own iteration of Samba (SMB2). After a bit of head scratching and research, I used an application called SMBUp as a replacement to Apple's SMB implementation. That's one problem solved. The next thing that I kept running into was that whenever the machine would sleep then wake up again, I'd get an annoying "Disk was not properly ejected" error message. After more head scratching and research, I've discovered that this appears to be a bug in OSX and how the OS interfaces with 3rd party USB controllers. Fine. I purchased a small app called Jettison which for all intents and purposes unmounts any external drives automatically before allowing the system to sleep. This is where my long-winded (apologies) description above starts to come into play. Now that I have the SMB issue figured out and am using Jettison to eject this USB3 drive when the machine sleeps, I've discovered that I'll still get the "Disk did not properly eject" error message despite Jettison IF there are users connected to the USB3 media drive. Is there a work around this where I can either get Jettison or Mavericks to kill the network connection to the share drive before it's unmounted prior to the machine sleeping?
TL:DR?
Using Jettison with Mavericks, I'm still getting "Disk did not eject properly" when waking the machine from sleep mode. Any way to fix this?
Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions provided.

I had the same problem with Time Machine and solved it by enabling "Enable Power Nap" in Energy Saver:
System Preferences...
Energy Saver
Restore Defaults
Check "Enable Power Nap: While sleeping, your Mac can back up using Time Machine and periodically check for new email, calendar, and other iCloud updates."
2013 21.5 iMac
OSX Mavericks
Seagate 1 TB slim USB 3.0 (power is drawn from USB port), formatted to Mac Journaling File System

How to safely unmount a drive from Air?

Hello,
Now that it is possible from Air2 beta2 to detect mount/unmount of drive, I wanted to know if it was possible to unmout propertly the drive that has been mounted.
I'm developping a fullscreen Kiosk, where the user can plug his USB key to download photos from a folder. So far, from what I have tried, if the user removes the USB key without unmounting it properly, a message pops up that says "Device Removal .. the device you removed was not properly put away..." (at least in Mac it does) . It would be nice if I could avoid this message by having an "Eject button"..
Thanks for any help.
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Automatically ejecting or unmounting a drive on shut down?

Greetings,
Is there a way to write a script for automatically ejecting or unmounting a drive on shut down?
I have a couple of firewire external drives that need to be unmounted before I shut down the computer and sometimes I forget (running the risk of losing data).
Is it best to do it with Applescript or Automator?
Thanks folks!
G5 1.8 GHz Dual Mac OS X (10.4.8) ATI Radeon X800 XT Mac Edition 256MB AGP

I'm highly confused here.
Part of the clean shutdown process is to
unmount any mounted drives. Adding a logoutHook
script isn't going to change that - it would just do
manually what the OS would do automatically.
Now an unclean shutdown such as a kernel panic
or power outage isn't going to unmount your drives,
but you also don't get an opportunity to unmount the
drives yourself.
What makes you say your drives aren't getting
unmounted?
This may help with my question above.
I have WD drive, and this is what they recommend for me to do.
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/stdadp.php?p_faqid=976&p_created=1052238620&p_sid=Bf4IFXti&p_accessibility=0&p_redi rect=&p_lva=&p_sp=cF9zcmNoPSZwX3NvcnRfYnk9JnBfZ3JpZHNvcnQ9JnBfcm93X2NudD05OCZwX3 Byb2RzPTAmcF9jYXRzPTExMyZwX3B2PSZwX2N2PTEuMTEzJnBfc2VhcmNoX3R5cGU9YW5zd2Vycy5zZW FyY2hfZm5sJnBfcGFnZT0x&p_li=&ptopview=1
They want me to unmount the drive before I shut down.
Is there a way to write a script for automatically unmounting a drive on shut down? With a script?
Thanks fo the replies!

Cannot unmount firewire drive due to compressord

I was working off a Firewire 400 drive doing work with Motion and Compressor. I am done, quit all my apps, try to eject the drive. I get a "device is busy" error and it will not eject.
There are no running applications, and force-quitting the Finder has no effect on this.
I ran "losf" in Terminal and got one open file:
compresso 1643 stevel 40r VREG 14,8 0 20785 /Volumes/PSYDUCK/Armor Animation/images/ies/LPFCPull.mov/..namedfork/rsrc
I notice that a "compressord" process in running, although Compressor has been quit.
I kill compressord with sudo in Terminal, and now I can unmount the drive.
Is this normal behavior? It's annoying and took me 1/2 hour to track down. I don't know why this file was kept open.
Any ideas?

Mmmmhmmm. Well when your computer is running through the installation preparation screens, there should be one where it will ask you where the location is you want iTunes to be loaded into. Change it to drive C. That SHOULD do it.
To be honest...I wish I had a Mac. Seems like they are much more reliable.
Windows XP

Unmounting ASMlib driver filesystems failed

Hi,
I have tried to stop ASMlib and unload module oracleasm
#oracleasm exit
However I am receiving the error:
Unmounting ASMlib driver filesystem: failed
Unable to unmount ASMlib driver filesystem
I have running ASM instance.
My main question is:
I have read that you do not need ASMlib for ASM (it is just an optional support), so why when I want to stop it it is not possible?
Note: I have tried to do so on the system without ASM instance running - actually no grid, no DB is installed, just ASMlib, and it was ok - I could do exit without any problems (sure, ).
If someone could give me an explanation what is going on, or what am I missing in ASMlib and ASM instance relationship I appreciate it so much.
#fuser -m /dev/oracleasm --> there are many processes using it (e.g. asm_dbw0_+ASM ...), which is all right I just do not understand why it is blocking ASMlib
xxx:/home/storage # rpm -qa| grep oracl
oracle-instantclient11.2-sqlplus-11.2.0.4.0-1
oracleasm-support-2.1.8-1.SLE11
oracleasmlib-2.0.4-1.SLE11
oracleasm-kmp-default-2.0.5_3.0.82_0.7-7.39.1
oracle-instantclient11.2-basic-11.2.0.4.0-1
oracleasm-2.0.5-7.39.1
Oracle 11g
SLE 11 SP3

Hi Dude,
Thanks.
And how it is connected with the ASM instance - I mean ASMlib, why it cannot be unmounted while ASM instance is running?
I thought that ASMlib is used for device management - labeling, connecting to /dev/oracleasm so it has not 'real' efect on ASM itself. I think it is just preparing devices for AMS so this is why I do not understand why it cannot be umnounted. Like separate process helping to user/admin deal with the devices, not helping ASM itself.
I am not against ASMlib (I will try udev, but ASMlib is simplifying things - at least for me ) - I saw there are many discussion, it is not my case, just wish to understand clearly.

Disk Utility - Restore can not unmount target drive

Just got a brand new MacBook Pro with Lion. As usual there are "issues"..
I wanted to move my old TimeMachine backup (250 GB) to a larger Firewire drive (500 GB) and found a lot of instructions on that.. Problem is they don't work on Lion. (Both are Iomega drives with Firewire)
The instructions suggest that using Disk Utility to "restore" the new drive from the old will work but I always get the Error "Can not unmount target drive..." and I can see that the source drive is unmounted but not the target. I did all of the "First Aid" stuff to both drives.. (and the target drive was turned into a MacOS partition and verified..)
I then tried the exact same process on my old MacBook Pro (Leopard) and everything worked as expected..
Was there another way to do this in Lion.. or is this broken..???
Thanks for any feedback..
John..

Is the new drive prepped?
Drive Preparation
1. If you are preparing an external or a non-startup drive, then open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, 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. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Security button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process can take up to several hours depending upon the drive size.
In Disk Utility you clone as follows:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Open Disk Utility from the Utilities folder.
Select the destination volume from the left side list.
Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.
Check the box labeled Erase destination.
Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag it to the Destination entry field.
Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to the Source entry field.
Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.
Destination means the new backup drive. Source means the old backup drive.
If you still have a problem then boot into the Recovery HD:
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.
Choose Disk Utility from the main menu then click on the Continue button.

Replacing a hard disk: will any drive work?

The 60GB internal hard disk on my 12" PowerBook G4 no longer works reliably. I know this because I can install OS X on my external Maxtor hard drive and boot up with no problem through firewire, but not with the internal one.
I want to replace the internal hard disk. Will any drive that seems to have the right specs-2.5", 9.5mm IDE Hitachi 80GB-do the job? I just bought the described drive at a computer shop, and haven't opened it yet, but I want to make sure I can actually make use of it. Are there any other important considerations?
Thanks in advance.
17" iMac G5 2.0 GHz Mac OS X (10.4.3) 12" PowerBook G4 867MHz

Good to see you have managed to get the correct drive.
I have seen posts on these boards where the SATA version has been purchased by mistake as online resellers don't always make enough distinction between the serial and parallel/ultra versions in their sales descriptions.
Even when I was buying my drive I had to triple check that I was buying the correct one.
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Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter - With any driver: "The device instance name is invalid"

Hello there,
I was trying to install various "Atheros AR5007EG Wireless Network Adapter" drivers, with versions ranging from 2007 to 2010, both from the manufacturer and specifically for this computer (a Fujitsu Siemens Esprimo Mobile) and others from here:
http://www.atheros.cz/atheros-wireless-download.php?chipset=22&system=3
All of them are for Windows Vista 32bit.
The computer had previous drivers installed and working, but also had a network problem. In the process of figuring out what was causing it, I tried to install newer drivers to see if that was the problem. It turns out the network problem was due to a different
thing that is now fixed (some dependencies of the WLAN Configuration service were turned off), but I'm still stuck installing the new drivers.
TL;DR:
However, every time I install new drivers, after install, Windows says that
"The device instance name is invalid", regardless of what drivers I install. I even tried to install drivers for different hardware in that slot just to see what it told me and IT STILL gave me the same error. I also tried to uninstall the
current driver, checking the box to delete the driver's software, running CCleaner and then deleting
"athr.sys" from the Windows/Drivers folder and
"oem8.inf" from Windows/Inf as those files were referenced in the driver's properties. The install still gives me the same error.
The fact that it gives me this error with any driver leads me to believe it's Windows' fault and not the driver's.
Note: I am translating from the original in Portuguese. "The device instance name is invalid" is the closest/correct translation and seems about right with the info I find online regarding the english version of Vista and how it refers to devices.
This (https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/microsoft.public.development.device.drivers/yFa_XnlcLJQ) and this (http://finderr.net/windows/pt-PT/O-nome-da-inst%C3%A2ncia-do-dispositivo-%C3%A9-inv%C3%A1lido-/2082573452) also seems to confirm that, though it
doesn't help me. It may be that the text is actually different in english Vista but I also searched for driver instead of device or stuff like "The device instance name appears to be invalid" and can't find anything either.
I also did SFC /SCANNOW a while ago and it found no errors. I then repeated it again after this problem and this time, SFC found errors BUT it couldn't repair all of them. Here is the CBS log:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bayum2rsezxpmre/CBS.log
Thank you for the help!
EDIT: The Notebook model is a Fujitsu-Siemens ESPRIMO Mobile V5535 and their support drivers can be found here (after specifying the OS and model):
http://support.ts.fujitsu.com/download/ShowFiles.asp
EDIT2:
The last SFC /scannow scan repaired everything left to repair. The system restore option can't be used because the earliest one still has the (suposedly faulty) drivers installed.
This computer has a Win Vista serial number, but no CD and the second partition doesn't have any kind of backup. The second partition is empty though. So, as a last resort, if I really don't have a choice, I'll try to do an upgrade install to see if that fixes
it and if that still doesn't fix it I'll have to move everything in the users folder to the second partition and format the first which is a bummer :/
EDIT: Here is the setup.api.log that was inside C:\Windows\Inf and details the instalation process of all the drivers:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tyxs1e4r7rxofch/setupapi.dev.log
I'm still trying to read into that setup.api.log file.

So, can I assume that the only way to fix this error is to download an iso of Windows Vista, unninstall my service packs, upgrade install Vista, run Vistalizator to change the language to Portuguese and then install Service Pack 1 & 2?
EDIT: Alright, so I formatted the thing since the driver bug wouldn't give me a break. The details on that can be found searching for the same thread title either on tomshardware or vistaforums if anyone happens to find this looking for the same error.
I have a real knack for bumping heads with errors that nobody else gets that somehow turn into unfixable bugs. At least if someone else searches for this problem they'll know what to do.

Satellite U840-10N - Windows Installation Can't See Any Drive

Hi all, this is my first post thus I hope I have choosen the right place to post in.
I've just bought a new Toshiba Satellite u840-10n ultrabook. It has built-in WIndows 7 Home Premium 320GB HHD + 32GB SSD.
Even if I prefer Linux, i need Windows because of Microsoft Visual Studio. I've downloaded Visual Studio(legally throught dreamspark.com) but it looks like it has some problems. In particular I cannot create any project.
After searching the web a lot for this problem, I've decided to try to reinstall Windows, hoping this will solve the issue, and here is the point.
Windows 7 installation process doesn't find any drive. I've looked throught the web a lot to solve even this problem, without figuring it out.
I've read that many other people had the same problem. I've tried different ways and I'm about to throw the laptop out of the window.
Is there anybody how can help me?
Cheers,
Marco Galassi

Hi macogala
Could you solve the problem installing the SATA driver?
As far as I know the Windows 7 system contains already an SATA driver so usually an additional SATA driver should not be an essential part. But try it out.
I solve my HDD issue by formatting the HDD again.
I create an bootable USB flash memory stick using *Gparted* freeware tool.
This partitions tool helped me to format the HDD and to create new partition in order to install Win 7.
By the way: in BIOS you should disable the +secure boot+ and should change from +UEFI to CSM mode.+

Any drive in Bay 2 freezes MacPro 1.1

I have a 2006 MacPro that has given me trouble free performance since I bought it. I'm way over due for a new system. I'm holding out for the release of the new MacPro.
Anyway, during the past week or so my system was unstable. First - I couldn't get it to wake from sleep without rebooting. A few nights ago I returned to my work area after about 5 hours and took it out of sleep mode. When it started up there was a warning message on the screen stating the the internal HD installed in Bay 2 was improperly ejected. I didn't think it was the drive since it was fairly new and has had light use. I did go ahead and replace it with a brand new drive.
System started up fine. I formatted the new drive, and everything worked as expected. A few hours later the system became unstable, eventually locking up. When I tried to reboot - nothing except a gray screen. I tried booting off CD and a bootable Lion USB Flash Drive. No luck with this. No options to select boot drive ... nothing. Just a gray screen.
Well the system is back up and running. It turns out that if any drive in inserted in Bay 2 - it's impossible to boot. Once I remove the inserted drive, the system reverts back to normal. Definitely not the drives. They've been tested externally and are 100% fine.
Is there anything that I can do to fix this? Sounds like a bad HD controller on the logic board. I don't plan on getting it serviced due to it's age and my eventual purchase of the new MacPro.
thx.
-paul

The hatter wrote:
Did you ever do a "hot swap" with a drive in that bay? some "get away" but it can damage the electronics.
Your running Lion, at some point have you already started over with a clean install? not upgrade over SL?
One way to work around only having 3 drive bays are the two ODD ports, and two SSDs (not bootable) on Sonnet Tempo SSD PCIe card.
Just what type make model of hard drive did you buy that you are trying to use?
Thanks for the tips ...
Never hot swapped. The system was always powered down and unplugged when necessary. And no, I've never done a clean OS install on this system. Like I said, it's been trouble free since I bought it. I mostly run media production applications. I'm going to consider doing a clean install.
As far as the drives that I use - these Western Digitals
The suspect drive that was in Bay 2 works fine when I use it in a docking station. I also tried 2 brand new drives in Bay 2. The problem persists. As soon as I remove the Bay 2 drive, the system boots and works fine.
The ODD/SSD option is cool. OTOH I'm basically holding out for the new MacPro. I'd still like to solve this Bay 2 issue before I decommission the system or sell it, potentially.
-paul.

What to do without any driver CD's in this case??? Help pls?

thanks in advance
I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS TO ASK.PLS READ IT FULLY
1.
i had a new toshiba laptop and didnt got any driver CD's and also not even for my orginal windows 7 HP 64 bit...In some cases we need those drivers to reinstall our os, isnt it ? ...what i have to do if i didnt got those CD's...help me.............
NOTE : I HAVE ALREADY MADE A BACK UP OF ALL MY SYSTEM HARD DRIVES
2..
in some cases when we we lost any passwords for eg: windows or administrator or any user paasword...we can use some other softwares like Windows password recovery Tool 3.0..isnt it??
Is it possible to recover those passwords with a TRIAL version of Windows password recovery tool downloaded from its orginal website ???
or is it possible only with FULL version downloaded from any other 3rd party website like cnet.com or download.com
pls tell a well explained method to download that software and how to recover password
TRY TO ANSWER SHARP TO THE QUESTION

iwaress wrote... "1) i had a new toshiba laptop and didnt got any driver CD's and also not even for my orginal windows 7 HP 64 bit...In some cases we need those drivers to reinstall our os, isnt it ? ...what i have to do if i didnt got those CD's...help me.............NOTE : I HAVE ALREADY MADE A BACK UP OF ALL MY SYSTEM HARD DRIVES"
All modern computers, desktop and laptop alike, that come without restore discs, recovery discs, OS disc, driver discs, application discs, etc. have a method to make your own set of recovery discs. The process may vary between brands and models, but the end result is the same. The process will at minimum create a set of recovery discs and maybe offer an additional application and/or driver disc as well.
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Probook 470 windows 8.1 upgrade to windows 10, any driver compatible issue?

Probook 470 windows 8.1 upgrade to windows 10, any driver compatible issue?

Hi,
First I assume there is a bluetooth module inside your computer.
If so please test to reinstall its driver. To get a driver for the device, you need to know the brand and model of your computer or your motherboard.
Generally computer manufacturers will provide all drivers for their computers on their website. Search with your computer model on manufacturer's website could help you get a proper driver. If failed, search your motherboard from its manufacturer instead
will also help.
After that, uninstall your bluetooth module from Device Manager and install the driver you just downloaded, reboot to see the result.
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Restoring time machine files from unmounted external drive

Help please..
I have a time machine backup I need to restore. It's a backup from an external drive that has failed.
When I go "enter time machine," I can't see the contents from the external drive anymore to restore it.. because the external drive isn't mounted. It's not mounted because it has failed. I can see when I browse the TM backup directly via finder there are files from the amounted drive in the backup... as I'd expect.
So... How do I restore drives from an unmounted external drive?
Do I need to buy a new drive and name it the same as the old drive? Then will it show up?

While in Time Machine, press the key combination shift-command-C. The front window will show all mounted volumes. All snapshots should now be accessible. Select the one you want and navigate to the files you want to restore.

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