Hello I will also give this site a look at.
thank you so much for helping me with all of this
On 1/11/2018 5:47 AM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote:
No, not of my own knowledge, Hank. You'll need to do some web searching.
You might start here, though:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204990
Next, you would need to trim that list down from the other end by
discovering when the chime disappeared from Apple's firmware.
good luck!
Janina
The wolf writes:
Hello I payed 200.00 for the mac that I have now
is there any perticular mac that I should try to look for in that price
range?
Hank
On 1/9/2018 10:24 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote:
I don't know on either of your questions--sorry. I guess Google needs to
be your friend on these issues.
I do have a thought ...
You might want to consider a newer Mac, just not a new one. Price should
be much less. You could look at the Macs that support running Win 10 and
look for refurbished, or owner sold models on that list.
If possible, I'd try to stay above the models that support installing
directly from an iso image on the Mac drive, as opposed to requiring you
to create a bootable USB stick. That's got to be much much faster. My
Airbook is too old for that.
There might be two benefits to a used Mac that you would lose with a new
Mac:
1.) Physical function keys, instead of the touchbar. Your choice on
whether that matters to you.
2.) The audible chime on boot has apparently disappeared on newer
Macs. If you're dual booting, working without the chime could be really
frustrating, imo.
For my money the above two considerations make a slightly used Airbook a
smarter buy, assuming it's in good condition and its former owner wasn't
a smoker.
hth
Janina
The wolf writes:
how anoying I will give this command and see if that fixes evertything
a quick question once I got windows7 loaded even though the mac doesn't
support windows10 is there a way or hack to get it to run?
also am not sure if u can help but would you happen to know if any good
places to get ram for the older macbooks?
it has 2 gigs it is seriously slow and want to at least upgrade it to 4 gigs
for now and then when I get more money saved up go to 8 gigs
thanks
Hank
On 1/9/2018 9:50 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote:
I can tell you I've spent the last month struggling with BootCamp. It's
very fussy, but also brittle, in my experience, i.e. the Windows
installation process will frequently break, but then eventually succeed.
Go figure.
Relevant to your situation I can attest that BootCamp is fussy about
using the tail end of your OS X container. I actually tried to get fancy
and put in a Win partition mid disk, then assign the remainder for ExFAT
so that it could contain files to share with both OS. Well, BootCamp
refused to cooperate with that.
The only situation that successfully created the BootCamp partitionand
launched the Windows install was having the entire disk, all the way to
the edge, assigned to OS X. Even free space, uunpartitioned and
unformatted wasn't acceptable.
diskutil from the command line is your friend on this task, imo. Note in
the page I pointed you to that a size of 0 means "fill the whole disk."
You want to see the entire container assigned to the Mac before running
BootCamp.
Good luck!
Janina
The wolf writes:
Hello will give this a look at
I wish it would tell me what the error is so I can try to google it
is this a known issue? I have'nt touched any of the mac partitions so it
shouldn't be doing this.
thanks
Hank
On 1/9/2018 8:51 PM, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote:
First Aid should be in the Toolbar of Disk Utility. At least that's
where it is on my 2014 vintage Airbook running High Sierra.
Note there are even more options available from the Terminal command
line, though with far less Voice Over functionality.
If possible ssh in for better screen reader support. I ssh to my Mac
from a Linux shell.
The reason is to run diskutil, which is a command line tool that does
far more than the graphical Disk Utility.
The man page for diskutil is essential, but a challenge to comprehend.
Here's a good web page to get you started:
https://www.MacObserver.com/tips/deep-dive/resize-your-apfs-container/
Note also that it's possible to install Windows without using BootCamp,
but it's not an accessible process. You'll need sighted assistance.
Here's a page on that process which should be the same, even though
you're not installing Win 10. It also helps explain what's going on
under the BootCamp hood
http://fgimian.github.io/blog/2016/03/12/installing-windows-10-on-a-mac-without-bootcamp/
hth
Janina
The wolf writes:
Hello yes I have it and when I selected it I couldn't find a repair button
please bare with me I haven't used a mac in about 3 to 4 years so am trying
to refresh my memory.
thanks
Hank
On 1/9/2018 4:18 PM, Anders Holmberg wrote:
Hi!
Isn’t there a first aid in disk utility?
You have to select the disk first and then find the first aid button.
Or is this not working.
Then something seems broken.
/A
9 jan. 2018 kl. 23:00 skrev The wolf <hank.smith...@gmail.com>:
Hello I am back in the mac world I got a macbook that is a 2009 or later
addission the mac was orriginally purchased in 2012
it will not support windows10 but it will support windows7
it has 2 gigs of ram it will be slow running windows but will be upgrading the
ram soon\
when ever I try to partition boot camp it says partition error it gives me no
info on what the error message it it says to try running disk repair there is
no disk repair choice in disk utility
I looked both at disk utility when booted in to osx and I also tried looking in
disk utility under recovery no repair choice
I am running the latest osx high sierra can any one help me out here? I wish I
could run windows10 but it says that it isn't supported so am stuck running
windows7
unless any one knows of a work around?
thanks
Hank
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