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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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Data recovery on Lion with a disk that disk utilities cannot mount?
I ran iDefrag last night because my MBP was running sooooo slow. I barely ever use it and it has 300 GB of free space. I used to use OnyX to optimise the disks on Snow Leopard but I didn't see that ...
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For a startup volume encrypted with Core Storage, System Preferences show that FileVault is disabled
My iMac has a SSD and a HDD. The OS is installed on the SSD.
I performed a clean installation of Mountain Lion to the SSD, and cloned my SSD using a backup from my Time Capsule in OS X Recovery.
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How to clean up partitions after OS X is moved from HD to SSD
Yesterday an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician installed an SSD into my iMac medio 2011. The iMac was born with an 1TB HDD but now a Crucial M4 SSD is also installed inside the mac. I've moved my ...
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How to move boot and recovery partition from HDD to SSD
Today an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician has installed an SSD into my iMac medio 2011. The iMac was born with an 1TB HDD but now a Crucial M4 SSD is also installed inside the mac. I've moved my ...
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Why is my boot partition listed as Unmounted in Disk Utility?
I recently experienced a kernel panic ("your mac must restart...") due to an issue with Macfusion, so after the reboot I loaded Disk Utility in an attempt to verify the disk in case something was left ...
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Is it safe to enable the hidden disk image formats and debug menu in Disk Utility, and what are its purposes?
I'm primarily interested to know whether installation of Lion included the Recovery System.
I understand you can enable extra formats and debugging in Disk Utility, using the following commands:
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How can I resize my Lion partition to fill up the unused space on the drive?
My MacBook (Late 2007) has an 80GB hard drive. I used to have a 15GB Boot Camp partition, and deleted it at some point -- but I forgot to resize my Snow Leopard partition to fill the 15GB of free ...
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Unable to resize Lion partition
I decided to do a clean install of Lion on a new partition, then after copying my stuff removed the old one. I'm now stuck with 100~ GB of free space and a 20 GB partition that Disk Utility won't let ...
