Will my partitions be safe
I'm thinking of upgrading (finally) from Leopard to Snow Leopard so that I can downoad and install Mountain Lion.
Only problem is I have a Windows XP partition which I made in Bootcamp which contains a lot of software and files that I can't do without.
My question is this:
If I upgrade Leopard to Snow Leopard, will the XP partition be safe?
Then, if I perform a clean install of Mountain Lion (only erasing the Macintosh HD partition and not the windows one) will my Bootcamp XP partition still be useable?
Actually there are a LOT of changes to the partition tables from where you are with 10.5.x until today that do go into changes in GUID and it is highly in your best interest to clone your drive, then erase with Lion and clean it all up. You can use Setup Assistant afterwards.
Really.
Or to maintain XP would be to clone your drive and upgrade using an external drive and then clone Lion and Lion Recovery back.
I would not do as planned.
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Hey,
I have a macbook pro 15-inch, Early 2011 running osx 10.9.4. I have a SSD hard drive that i installed myself a year ago and hasn't shown any defects. Its a 120 gb OCZ-AGILITY3.
My problem:
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My guess is that the problem is with the battery. My computer won't run anymore without the adapter, when i pull the adapter out it either stays on for a while before just turning off. Without having it plugged in it won't start. Is it possible that during normal start up there is some kind of communication with the battery that can cause this?
I ran a diagnostic shown in this thread (Will only boot in safe mode) and included it in this post.
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Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,2
System Version: OS X 10.9.4 (13E28)
Kernel Version: Darwin 13.3.0
Boot Mode: Safe
Time since boot: 10 minutes
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<Edited by Moderator>Be sure your drive is initially partitioned into one single volume. Then format the volume for Mac OS Extended. Once that's done re-partition the drive into two volumes (if that's what you desire) then resize them as you want. How you do the resizing may be important. Usually the larger volume is the first or top volume. Select it by clicking on its rectangle in the sizing gadget. Then in the Size field enter the size you want. That should result in the first volume being resized to what you want and the second volume automatically resizes accordingly.
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1 2.66 GHz Intel Core i7 CPU: 2 cores
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Then restart and see if that works.
If not then I would update Java.
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[invalid] com.oracle.java.Java-Updater.plist
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Now restart & see if that works.
If that doesn't work try deleting everything in:
/Macintosh HD/Library/StartupItems
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My MBP crashes with diagonal video issues, and will only boot in Safe Mode. Now what?
My 17" MBP (2007, 2.33 mHz) crashed the other night as I was trying to copy some music off a friend's iPod. Now, on boot, it will show the gray Apple logo, then clear the screen, but never go farther (and the fan starts up a terriific rumble after a few minutes). It is also showing distorted diagonal lines across the display.
Things I've found:
* It won't boot to the OSX Leopard DVD, just spins, and spits out the Snow Leopard DVD
* If I put it in FW Target mode it will mount on my iMac, but the FW 800 port is so skitchy/loose it loses connection eventually
* If I boot it in safe mode, everything works--no video distortion, can connect to a USB drive, which I did to back up the entire contents, and I can mount the Leopard DVD
* During that backup (using Chronosync), no disk errors except for an Aperture library failure.
I'm not sure what to do next. Boot to the Leopard DVD via safe mode to renistall the system, hoping that it'll work after it restarts? If I were in OS9 I'd be using extension manager to turn features on and off to see what's crashing, but it doesn't look like I have that capability with Safe Boot.
Any thoughts would be welcome, let me know of any other info you need.
Thanks!
Oh, two other things: I ran disk utility and repaired permissions, didn't fix the problem. And I don't have one of the video cards from that era that was covered by Apple even after warranty, one of the first things I checked
Message was edited by: Paulzahttp://support.apple.com/kb/ht3964
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24" iMac will only boot in safe mode
Here is the short version:
I have a 24" iMac Core 2 2.16 GHZ with Lion installed (has been for a long time). It will only boot successfully in safe mode. The AHT Extended tests do not report any problems. I have reset PRAM and SMC. Nothing helps. Normal boot process will get to the point where it switches from the Apple logo with spinning wheel to where it would normally switch the OSX GUI and login screen. Instead the screen is all white or gray. The exact same problem happens if I try to boot from an OSX Install DVD or USB and also my DiskWarrior DVD. Since safe mode works, my guess is that the problem is with the video card and the normal color depth that the Mac boots to. In Safe Mode it is in reduced colors.
Since safe mode works, I have all of my data backed up to an external drive. If I could boot from an install disk, I would have already wiped the disk and done a new install, but I cannot do this! I am assuming this is a hardware problem and given the age of this iMac I am out of luck. I ordered a new system last night, but if it is possible to get this one working again, I would like to be able to give it to a relative who could use it. So if anyone has any ideas, it would be appreciated.
Just slightly longer version:
Been using this system since 2007. Used to use it for work, now it is the home media hub where we sync our iOS devices. It has had Lion installed for probably a year now and has always worked great. A few weeks ago, it started locking up whenever my son was playing Minecraft. I would have to power off the system to get it back. I assumed it was a Java problem. I tried fixing disk permissions etc. but nothing solved it. Anyway, last week I was downloading App updates in iTunes when the system locked up again. The mouse would move around but I could not Force Quit anything or really do anything. So I had to power off the system. That is when the boot problems started. Since that happened, the system has not come back with a normal boot.
Thanks for any ideas/help. If someone thinks this is fixable, I can bring it to my local Apple service dealer. I do not want to pay them $100 just to have them tell me it cannot be fixed or needs a new logic board or something like that which would not be worth buying.
MarkPlease read this whole message before doing anything.
This procedure is a diagnostic test. It won’t solve your problem. Don’t be disappointed when you find that nothing has changed after you complete it.
Third-party system modifications are a common cause of usability problems. By a “system modification,” I mean software that affects the operation of other software — potentially for the worse. The following procedure will help identify which such modifications you've installed. Don’t be alarmed by the complexity of these instructions — they’re easy to carry out and won’t change anything on your Mac.
These steps are to be taken while booted in safe mode.
Below are instructions to enter some UNIX shell commands. The commands are harmless, but they must be entered exactly as given in order to work. If you have doubts about the safety of the procedure suggested here, search this site for other discussions in which it’s been followed without any report of ill effects.
The commands may line-wrap or scroll in your browser, but each one is really just a single line, all of which must be selected. You can accomplish this easily by triple-clicking anywhere in the line. The whole line will highlight, and you can then either copy or drag it. The headings “Step 1” and so on are not part of the commands.
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
When you launch Terminal, a text window will open with a line already in it, ending either in a dollar sign (“$”) or a percent sign (“%”). If you get the percent sign, enter “sh” and press return. You should then get a new line ending in a dollar sign.
Step 1
Triple-click the line of text below to select it. Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C). Then click anywhere in the Terminal window and paste (command-V).
find /Sy*/L*/Ex* -type f -name Info.plist -exec sh -c '/usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Print :CFBundleIdentifier" "$1" 2> /dev/null | egrep -qv "apple|Accusys|ArcMSR|ATTO|CalDigit|HighPoint|hp-fax|JMicron|print|SoftRAID|stex" && echo ${1%*.kext/*}.kext' {} {} \;
Post the lines of output (if any) that appear below what you just entered (the text, please, not a screenshot.) You can omit the final line ending in “$”.
Step 2
Repeat with this line:
ls -1A /e*/mach* {,/}L*/{Ad,Compon,Ex,Fram,In,Keyb,La,Mail/Bu,P*P,Priv,Qu,Scripti,Servi,Spo,Sta}* L*/Fonts 2> /dev/null
Important: If you formerly synchronized with a MobileMe account, your me.com email address may appear in the output of the above command. If so, anonymize it before posting.
Step 3
osascript -e 'tell application "System Events" to get name of every login item' 2> /dev/null
Remember, these steps are all copy-and-paste — no typing. Also remember to post the output.
You can then quit Terminal. -
One moment I was using Firefox the same as I always have. The only difference was that I changed the preferences to erase history when quitting Firefox. When trying to open the program again, it is immediately unresponsive. I attempted opening it in safe mode and a window will appear but never load, and Firefox remains unresponsive. I could not reset Firefox either. I deleted the application and re-downloaded Firefox, but it changed nothing. I am in OSX 10.7.4. Can anyone help?
Hello chillman4130, try to create a new profile(in case that you profile is corrupted), go (with closed firefox...... it is anyway) to /Applications/Utilities > Open the Terminal application > in the Terminal application, enter the following:
* /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin -p
Press Return
the above opens Profile Manager, if the profile manager open then see : [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles#w_creating-a-profile Creating a profile]
then see: [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/Recovering%20important%20data%20from%20an%20old%20profile Recovering important data from an old profile]
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Transferring_data_to_a_new_profile_-_Firefox
thank you
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