What program did you use to create a bootible drive? Sent from my MobileOffice
> On Apr 22, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Rachel Feinberg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello all, > > I appreciate this information so much! I did what one person from here > suggested, held down the option key as the computer was booting, played the > “let’s guess which drive the Mac will boot from” game, and landed on my > bootable drive! I waited a bit, started Voiceover, and it did allow me to > install Yosemite. > Added to that, the restoration from a Time machine backup, and things seem > to be working nicely! > Thank you again for all your help and advice. One thing I did read is you can > press C when the Mac boots up to force it to start from any external bootable > media. That would’ve been my next plan if the option and right arrow course > of action hadn’t of worked. > Rachel. >> On Apr 22, 2015, at 12:25 PM, Erik Heil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> Do you wireless information is stored within NV RAM. As such, if you have >> previously entered security of mission for wireless networks, it is >> automatically entered. It will automatically connect to a wireless network >> if it has previously associated it with your iCloud account. For more >> information, if you view the deed it with a and B RAM, you'll see network >> he's related to the wireless networks if you have any. Of course, this >> information is encrypted, but like I said before, it is see with them in the >> room. If you actually were to clear and we ramp settings, disinformation >> would not be available, and as such, some system values which are stored >> within and be ram will be restored to their factory defaults. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >>> On Apr 22, 2015, at 1:59 PM, Tim Kilburn <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Yes, it does use the Internet to connect to Apple’s servers. Info on this >>> is found here... >>> >>> https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT201314 >>> >>> I haven’t tried it, but, I’m guessing that the initial place where you need >>> to select a wireless network probably isn’t accessible since there’s been >>> no real base System to load VO from. If you live in a place where there’s >>> no other WiFi networks visible, then you should be able to enter your WiFi >>> password and move on. If there are many WiFi networks close by, this may >>> be difficult without sighted assistance. I guess a person could arrow down >>> once, press return then enter your WiFi password, then wait five or so >>> minutes to see if the base System is downloaded to your machine, then move >>> on if that doesn’t work by trying two down arrows and so on. This could >>> take you quite a while and be very frustrating, but it may be your only >>> option if you don’t have access to sighted assistance. >>> >>> Sorry. >>> >>> Later... >>> >>> Tim Kilburn >>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >>> >>> On Apr 22, 2015, at 11:48, Rachel Feinberg <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Tim, >>> >>> thanks for this tip! In trying it I haven't had luck so far, however, just >>> wondering if this contacts Apple's servers, does this require internet >>> connectivity? And if nothing is installed, it'd make connecting difficult. >>> If, in fact, that's what's needed. >>>> On 4/22/2015 10:37 AM, Tim Kilburn wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> Yes, you likely have affected the Recovery Partition. Try starting with >>>> cmd-option-r which should start up from Apple’s servers. It may take a >>>> little longer to boot up, but you should be able to install from there. >>>> >>>> Later... >>>> >>>> Tim Kilburn >>>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >>>> >>>> On Apr 22, 2015, at 11:30, Rachel Feinberg <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> A quick question on clean installing OS X. I wanted to clean install >>>> before putting Yosemite on my Macbook Air. I made a bootable drive, booted >>>> into the recovery partition by holding down command+R then pressing >>>> command+F5 until Voiceover started up and I could format the Macintosh HD. >>>> I clicked on the size, (128 GB Apple SSD), and chose to erase it. Could it >>>> be possible that I've inadvertently erased the recovery partition? >>>> As I then went back to the utilities table, chose to re-install OS X, >>>> which turned out to be Mavericks. As I didn't wish to install this >>>> version, I shut down the computer, restarted it and attempted to get back >>>> into recovery mode, but no dice this time. I'm unable to get VO to start, >>>> and even accessing the boot menyu with the option key and pressing right >>>> arrow once or twice and pressing enter to boot from the external media is >>>> a no-go. >>>> I've read several archives from this list that say to wait different >>>> amounts of time before attempting to start Voiceover in the recovery >>>> partition, and none have worked. I understand this partition is hidden, >>>> but I wonder if by clicking on, and erasing the size of the drive, instead >>>> of the Macintosh HD partition, I've slipped out of the grasp of the >>>> recovery partition's help? >>>> Any advice, or pointers on things I might have missed would be greatly >>>> appreciated. >>>> Thanks! >>>> Rachel. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to [email protected]. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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