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Do you lose everything in your apps when you reformat your mac?
Yes, when you "reformat" it erases the hard drive completely. It will be an empty drive, you will have to reinstall the OS from your disk/Apple internet or reinstall from a back-up after you do it.
How do you fix a Mac?
Restart and hold down the Shift key as your Mac starts up. This will automatically check some files and stop some files from loading. Open Disk Utility. Select the start up drive. Click 'Repair Permissions.' and let it finish. Restart. If the problem still is there, insert the 'Install Disk 1.' Restart while holding the C key down. It will take longer. The disk utility is in a folder on the cd. Find it and run it. Select the start up drive. Click 'Repair Disk.' Wait. Restart.
How do you Fix the Turbo tax for updating issues occurring in Mac?
Restart and hold down the Shift key as your Mac starts up. This will automatically check some files and stop some files from loading.Open Disk Utility. Select the start up drive. Click 'Repair Permissions.' and let it finish.Restart. If the problem still is there, insert the 'Install Disk 1.' Restart while holding the C key down. It will take longer.The disk utility is in a folder on the cd. Find it and run it. Select the start up drive. Click 'Repair Disk.' Wait. Restart.
Steps to removing Mac OS?
You cannot 'remove' the Mac OS. The computer will not function without it. Macintosh computers need, and can only function with, the Mac OS. What you can do, possibly, is revert to an earlier version of the OS, if you still the disks the computer came with, or you can possibly upgrade to newer OS than the one you are currently using. If you want to revert, then insert the installation disk and set it as the start-up disk and then follow the onscreen instructions. This will delete the existing OS and install the desired one. If you are upgrading, insert the installation disk and set it as the start-up disk. Then follow the instructions. This will upgrade the existing OS to the newer one.
When you turn on your ibook g4 the symbol for a folder shows up and flash between a question mark and an old mac symbol what do you do?
It's looking for a Startup Folder. Give it a few minutes to look for it if you could start up normally any other time. If you have more then one operating system on it it may take a few more minutes. If it does finally start up then make sure you have selected a "Start up Disk" in the "Start Up" menu in the System Preferences. If it won't start up then start up with your OS-X CD/DVD and use the Disk Utility to Repair Permissions and Repair Disk.
Can you burn the install disc for your mac using windows xp?
Hey most software for the apple mac will work on a normal computer but you need to have and very up tp date computer and alot of times you will get an error message but it is possible and considering its a mac INSTALL disk im afraid its not gonna work and if you nee to reboot your computer just put the install disk in the mac and it will automaticly take you to options to start the computer
Why Mac OS x doesn't star up?
The fix could be that you are using the wrong startup disk. When you turn your PC or mac on press f1 repeatedly until you come to the startup menu. From this select 'startup' preferences, start up disk and select the right one. If you are unsure there is no harm in trying them all as i doubt you will have more than 2 hard disks.
How do fix disk repair Mac disk utility without installation CD?
An installation cd/dvd is essential in order to repair the start-up disk. The Mac needs a booting platform & this cd/dvd provides exactly the same. One cannot repair the boot partition while initiating the system from it. Thankfully, there are couple of disk repair software such as Stellar Volume Repair and Disk Warrior that provides bootable disk if your installation cd is missing. You can boot from the DVD created by the software and then perform repairment with the help of these partition repair tools.
When i delete something on my mac does it free up space. eg an app. or do i need to use disk utility?
Yes Deleting from your mac, frees up Hard drive space.
Does mac book pro comes with a start-up disc when bought from a reseller?
Usually not unless they specifically say it does if it's used. If it's a brand new one then yes it does.It's not a start-up disk like a Windows set up. Apple used to have a MacOS installer disk and an Application installer disk to install all the original applications. Now it's all downloaded form the internet from their servers so there is no more installer disk. At least from Apple anyway, you can make your own once you download it.
How do you install Portal 2 on a mac from disc?
For best results, start by throwing away the mac and get a good PC. I always thought the Mac was a good PC, but what the hay.... To answer the question, just insert the disk and it will either automatically start an installer or just click on the icon, or the installer in the window, that shows up and it will start the installer that way. Just follow the instructions and you should be good. The default folder for most installers will be your "Applications" folder.
What is a startup disk?
It is a disk that allows you to boot up your computer if your normal method using the hard disk is not working or you deem it safer to boot up from a start-up disk because of a virus risk or other problem. A start-up disk contains all the necessary data to enable your machine to boot. Depending on the circumstances, you can then do whatever is necessary to get your computer back to normal operation.
