Hello, In the shop where I bought mi macbook in 2009, they told me that you can re-install (remove your hd) lion from the recovery-partition, booting with command+r. The recovery-partition is a hidden partition so, should not be removed. Burning a dvd is not necessary.
But, before I want to reinstall lion I would like to backup all my passwords. This seems not that easy. Also, I have a selfmade template for pages that is saved in my templates where I can open it from inside pages. But , I can't find how to backup this. Thx for your answers, best regards, William Op 30-jul.-2011, om 08:44 heeft Georges Zaynoun het volgende geschreven: > I failed also to drag the installesd.dmg on the flash memory, I ended up > creating a dvd and on imac mc508 from mid last year it installed properly > using the clean install method, so as well on mac mini standard configuration > 2.4ghz and as of yet 2gb ram which will be upgraded to 8 like the imac. The > weirdest and most difficult install was on the macbook 13inch white from > Februray 2009 when it was purchased, used same dvd to make a clean install > and it kept hanging on me after 24percent and kept saying downloading > additional components and when reaching 100percent a dialog box popped up > saying it failed to download. I ended up putting snow leopard again then > upgraded it and finally used the contents of the dmg file to install and yes > it downloaded components and it is working fine. If somebody can solve this > mistery of dragging the dmg file to the usb memory I would be more than > happy. Wonder what happens if we format the flash drive in disk utility with > mac os x journalled choosing the guid layout and at the end copy the contents > of the dvd or install lion.app directly in the root of the flash drive > keeping the structure of course but we use finder instead, I didn't try it > and have no vision to tell about any logo of any sort just wanting to do it. > Finally how would one boot from the flash memory and the most important thing > how to know when to press command f5 as it doesn't make spinning sound that > stops like the dvd, any clues? > > > Frustrated because I couldn't make a bootable lion flash drive. > Original message: >> Hey everyone, ok, here is my experience so far. One of my other macs is >> doing the install now. Purchased the app and downloaded it. Used disk >> utility to make a bootable DVD, also attempted to make a bootable flash >> drive, but disk utility seems to require you to drag the disk image to the >> destination, tried that but couldn't seem to get that to work. So I used >> super duper to clone the image to my flash drive, actually it's an 8 GB >> micro SD card and a card reader, but should be the same. Attempted to boot >> the mac using the flash drive first, that didn't seem to work, the apple >> logo displayed for a while, then the screen stayed blank, waited for about >> 15 minutes, then I decided to try the DVD I made. Having better luck with >> that, mac booted, started voiceover and used disk utility to erase my hard >> drive, since I want to do a clean install. Now comes the interesting part, >> it wants you to enter your apple ID and password, I guess to verify that you >> have purchased 10.7. There are actually 2 windows open here, one is the >> installer, and there is another window behind that where you need to enter >> your user name and password. I know a few users have had problems with this, >> to get around it, press control option function F2 twice. When booted from >> the DVD, the function keys are configured to do hardware functions. You need >> to do this key stroke twice, the first time reads the window title, the >> second time will open the window chooser menu where you can switch to the >> sign in window. After entering the user name and password, it's downloading >> components, I figured it would just use what was already on the DVD, it's >> probably downloading the same thing, but there doesn't seem to be a way >> around that. Also, the customize option was disabled, so hopefully it will >> not install all of the multilanguage support, since I don't really need that >> or all the print drivers. Not sure why the flash drive method did not work, >> but so far the DVD is working. > >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > > -- > Georges Zeinoun > Timmerv. 6A, SE54163 SKÖVDE > Tel: +46500201623, +46500482929 > Mobile: +46707567315 > E-mail: [email protected] > > Email services provided by the System Access Mobile Network. 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