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Recovering old mac pro (A1278) MAC OS X LION installation failed
I had an old a mac a1278 and I wanted to format the disk and make a clean install. I used the apple boot tool to do so, but after erasing the disk and trying to reinstall Lion what happens is that the ...
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2009 Macbook, question mark at boot and at boot cd
I am attempting to repair a 2009 Macbook.
Specs: http://support.apple.com/kb/SP504
At boot a grey folder with a question mark appears. In order to repair the disk, I have tried booting from a Lion ...
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Move Mac OS Hard Drive from One Mac to Another
I currently have two Mac Minis, one is the current gen, another is a 2009 model both loaded with OS X Lion. I am trying to boot the new Mac Mini with the hard drive pulled from the old one using a ...
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How to install OSX Lion onto a Macbook Air from USB drive without any OS already on the system?
For whatever reason, I have recently come into an early 2008 Macbook Air which has had its hard drive wiped completely, so there is no OS on there currently. How do I install OSX Lion or Windows 7/8 ...
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MacBook Pro (OSX Lion) - shutdown automatically before reaching login screen
When I try to lunch my MacBook Pro I can see a progress bar on loading screen. It goes to 1/15 or something like this and then it shut downs - I cannot reach even login screen. It happened to me 2 ...
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Restoring Macbook Lion Boot
Recently I installed Ubuntu on my Macbook Pro with Lion. I had trouble getting it to work with my hardware and repartitioned the drive to eliminate Ubuntu. Now when I boot my mac I get an error ...
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Prevent Mac From Reloading Apps After Restart
I had to power cycle my Macbook Pro by holding down the power button after it locked up.
When it restarted, it reloaded all the apps that I had been running before, which took a long time and was ...
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Mac won't boot after installing updates on Windows partition
Setup
I have an early 2008 MacBook with Mac OS X Lion installed. I made a partition with Windows 7 Ultimate which I can boot into by holding the Option key on the Mac keyboard.
Boot Issues
After ...
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Macbook pro reboots during the first boot process
My 2011 MBP has developed an annoying habit of rebooting during each first attempt to start it up. I've enabled FileVault, so once I've typed in my password, it will get to the spinning grey icon and ...
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Does Mac OS X Lion / 10.7 support UEFI 2.0?
I've been hoping for a while that Mac would move to UEFI 2.0 from the older EFI 1.x spec (for many reasons, such as an ability to boot Windows natively on UEFI without running it under bios emulation, ...
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