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Old 2008 MacBook Mac upgraded to OS X 10.9.5 from Snow Leopard to recycle without apple id password
I want to pass along my 2008 MacBook on to a new user with the default factory settings. After erasing the MAC HD (without doing anything to the OS X Base system partition), I thought I would've been ...
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How to install an OSX Leopard ISO on a hard drive through another mac?
I have an OLD PowerPC-based Mac G5 on which i am attempting to install OSX 10.5 Leopard.
I only have an ISO and no DL DVD to burn it onto. Moreover the tower doesn't recognize an OSX installation ...
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Freezing, disk i/o problems iMac
I have a desktop iMac with Snow Leopard installed on it. Every few minutes, I get freezing and
"kernel disk0s2: I/O Error"
in my console. I did some research, and found that my hard drive (a WD I ...
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Snow Leopard 10.6.8 -- Short freezes all the time
I have a Macbook white (2010) and I'm facing an annoying thing since I'd bought it.
I've already re-installed the system some times, but the fact is that I got short freezes for 2-3 seconds when ...
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Can't install Snow Leopard on new hard-drive on iMac 21.5" (mid 2010)
I got a iMac from a friend and it originally had mountain lion. I was able to login and use it like normal for about 3-4 times. Then it won't log me at all.
I got apple and some other experts and was ...
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Can I use the Snow Leopard install discs to recover a Mountain Lion Time Machine backup onto a new hard drive?
I'd like to install a new SSD into my 15" mid 2010 MacBook Pro which is currently running Mountain Lion. Previously when I have changed the hard drive I've been able to recover the system using its ...
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What settings do I use for Carbon Copy Cloner if I want everything exactly the same on my new SSD?
I am upgrading from a hard drive to an SSD and looking at Carbon Copy Cloner 3.4.5. However I am uncertain what settings I should use as far as handling data already on the destination. Essentially I ...
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Mac OS X 10.6: Never try mounting a specific drive
We have a (public-use) Mac (running 10.6), which also has Linux installed on a separate partition. After every reboot, the first person who logs in gets a message "The disk you inserted was not ...
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Hard drive slowing down OSX after updates
After updating OSX several times, I noticed that the hard drive is working even when I'm not doing anything. Also, the hard drive will momentary lock up the system for no apparent reason. How can I ...
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HDD from Mid-2009 MacBook Pro works OUTSIDE laptop, but not INSIDE
Leading up to the problem:
I was working late one night on a Keynote presentation. My battery ran out, and the computer did that hibernation thing it does when there's no battery power. I got my ...
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Large Free space changes on mac when not writing to HDD
Im creating files on PhotoShop CS5. They are 10mb a piece. HDD goes from 35 gb free to suddenly 400 mb free throughout the whole day then it suddenly alerts me of this startup disc being full. In ...
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New MacBook Pro hard drive not being recognized by Disk Utility?
Hey all. Recently I had the misfortune of having (what I think was) hard drive failure on my September 2009 MacBook Pro. When I started the computer, a flashing folder icon with a question mark ...
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Snow Leopard won't see a FAT32 formatted hard disk
I have a WD external hard disk formatted as FAT32. It works perfectly on my Windows machine but when I'm trying to connect to my brand new MacBook it becomes totally invisible!
Any ideas on what can ...
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Viruses on external hard drive -- how to clean files?
Last year my Dell laptop caught some pretty nasty viruses; I saved all my important stuff on an external hard drive. In an unrelated turn of events, I replaced my Dell with a Mac and have been able to ...
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Why does OS X insist on spinning up all external drives when loading a file from the local drive?
Why does OS X insist on spinning up all the attached external drives (firewire, usb) when loading a file from the local (internal) drive?
It's driving me insane that I have to wait for 3 attached ...
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