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Understanding how safe boot fixed a boot problem
Background
My friend asked me to look at her early 2011 Mac Mini with OS X 10.8.3. She said that:
she installed software updates
she couldn't remember which updates were installed
when the Mac ...
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Is it safe to reformat drive during Recovery Mode install?
I've inherited an almost brand new 13" Macbook Pro Retina. I'd like wipe the hard drive clean and start with a fresh install of Mountain Lion. I've done this a million times before... but never while ...
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Can I “restore” an iso image to my hdd to be bootable?
I removed my superdrive a while back but now I want to install a linux partition on my macbook. I installed rEFInd as my boot manager but now I need to boot into the arch linux iso. Normally I would ...
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Fix slow startup after utility disk repair on a SSD
I have a 250Gb Samsung SSD 840 series with Trim support enabled installed on a mid-2009 13" Macbook pro running Snow Leopard (10.6.8, 2.26GHz, 8Gb of RAM) and I experience extremely slow startup after ...
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What are next steps when fsck reports “could not be repaired after 3 attempts”?
My Mac Book Pro 13.-" doesn´t get past the grey booting screen with the apple and the spinning wheel (The loading bar appears but when it´s done nothing happens)
I have 220 GB in one single ...
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How to avoid diskutil from running on next boot?
OSX keeps trying to run diskutil to check my hard drive whenever I boot the system. Problem is it hangs up and reboots during the checking.
The system was running fine before rebooting. I suspect it ...
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How to image and deploy a Bootcamp setup?
We are rolling out iMac's and MacBook Pro's throughout the business and are setting them up with Boot Camp and an option to boot into Windows 7. Essentially the partition is just split down the ...
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Creation of Image / Netboot Image stops at 4 GB
I try to create a Netboot Image / Image according to this documentation
Apple Netboot Image
And I tried it on different System and different external harddrives (mac os extended journaled, ntfs) and ...
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How do I restore a Windows 7 DMG file to Boot Camp (and make it bootable)?
My iMac's HD died last week, and so I was unable to access OS X (I had a Time Machine backup of it though). Fortunately I was able to boot into the Recovery HD and use Disk Utility to backup Boot Camp ...
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Why does RAID 1 “Mirroring not provide performance improvements”?
I have always used Software RAIDs, either Apple-provided, or via SoftRAID, etc. I am about to re-zhuzh my arrays and decided to do a little research beforehand… and On Apple's site, there is a ...
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How can I install OS X Lion on a new HDD?
I need OS X Lion on a new HDD that I am preparing to install in a MacBook.
Since I don't have an existing disk to boot up and Apple isn't selling flash drives with it (or are they?), how do I use it ...
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Move complete Lion installation to another physical drive
is there a way to completely move my OSX Lion to my new SSD without reinstalling? I came from Windows and Linux to OSX and i thought maybe it is possible to simply change the bootloader config after ...
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Can you run Disk Utility from bootable lion disk?
I've made a bootable lion disk by extracting the InstallESD.dmg from the lion installer app's package contents. - (Contents>SharedSupport>InstallESD.dmg)
When booting from this disk, can you run disk ...
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How to create a bootable USB drive for Disk Utility?
Disk Utility says my boot drive need repair. Unfortunately my DVD drive is toast, so I can't boot from the install DVD and make the repair. Is there a way I can create a bootable USB drive and ...
