Question says it all.
I’m wondering this as I wish to do a reinstall of the OS on my Macbook Pro but
can’t bring up the recovery boot process, I shut the computer down and then
restart whilst holding down the option key, I hold this down for 15 seconds or
so.
Then I use the left arrow key to
I have never used that technique.
I simply hold command R as the Mac Reboots which I find a lot easier.
David Griffith
On 23 Oct 2014, at 08:49, Dane Trethowan grtd...@internode.on.net wrote:
Question says it all.
I’m wondering this as I wish to do a reinstall of the OS on my Macbook Pro
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Subject: OS 10.10, does it still support the Reinstall option from the
Recovery Partition?
Question says it all.
I'm wondering this as I wish to do a reinstall of the OS on my Macbook Pro
but can't bring up the recovery boot process, I shut the computer down and
then restart whilst
I’ve never reinstalled an operating system in all my computing days, and don’t
just want to try the keystroke command r on boot up just to see what happens,
in case I get stuck and can’t get out!
So, if I do this keystroke on boot up, what can I expect to see? I’m thinking
about doing a clean
Command-r restarts in recovery mode. Then, you have to start VoiceOver with
command-F5. You will have all of the options from there.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
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Email, j...@macfortheblind.com
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Andy, I just did the following before answering your question:
1) restart the mac.
2) at the log on chime sound, immediately press and hold command + R.
3) hold for a full fifteen seconds then release.
4) wait another 10 seconds and then turn on VoiceOver with command +F5.
Note: these times vary.
Hi Phil -
Thanks for this. Couple of things if that’s ok, or if anybody else wants to
chime in and help:
Is it worth going for a clean installation, or will the upgrade to Yosemite
effectively be like a new install, giving things a tweak if needed?
I was also interested in what you said about
I personally do it from the cmd r screen that way no files are going to be
locked and in use.
also the upgrade just replaces the core files which sometimes but not all the
time can lead to a disastr. I do the upgrade then a time machien back up and
after a few weeks do a clean install.
On
, this recovery partition, if I don’t want to
reinstall Mavericks, but want to go for a clean install of Yosemite, can I do
that from in there?
Thanks -
Andy
On 23 Oct 2014, at 16:19, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually hit cmd option r at start up and wait for about
to say
command options r? And secondly, this recovery partition, if I don’t want to
reinstall Mavericks, but want to go for a clean install of Yosemite, can I do
that from in there?
Thanks -
Andy
On 23 Oct 2014, at 16:19, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually hit cmd option r
partition, if I don’t
want to reinstall Mavericks, but want to go for a clean install of Yosemite,
can I do that from in there?
Thanks -
Andy
On 23 Oct 2014, at 16:19, Sarah k Alawami marri...@gmail.com wrote:
Actually hit cmd option r at start up and wait for about 30 seconds, then
bring
messages. So I am
attempting to reinstall the operating system using the recovery partition.
I can turn on voice over, select the reinstall OS 10 option, hit continue
through the license agreement and select my destination drive for the
reinstall. However, when I get to the sign in to the app
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To: OS X iOS Accessibility
Subject: [Re: reinstalling mavericks with recovery partition
I tried navigating there with the window chooser and was still unable to sign
in. I get no feedback when typing
running very slowly with lots of finder busy messages. So I am attempting
to reinstall the operating system using the recovery partition. I can turn
on voice over, select the reinstall OS 10 option, hit continue through the
license agreement and select my destination drive for the reinstall
hey all,
i’m having a very big problem and am at my wits end. i tried to make a
partition but the system malfunction and now i’m stuck with a 1.2 TV partition
calling itself free space.
Know matter what I try I cannot delete the partition. every option is Grade
out. i wiped the Macintosh HD
hey all,
thanks to a suggestion from a good friend of mine i’m going to boot mavrics
from a 3tb external drive that I have lying around. In our theory using the
external drive should give me more freedom to fix these defective petitions.
will keep you posted.
kind regards
Michael
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Michael,
Although I'm not sure how you do it with a Mac, I think the problem is that
you are looking at the free space as a partition, and in fact, I believe
that is just unpartitioned space on the drive.
You should be able to get rid of the free space by expanding the size of an
adjoining
, at 11:31 pm, Glenn glenner...@cableone.net wrote:
Michael,
Although I'm not sure how you do it with a Mac, I think the problem is that
you are looking at the free space as a partition, and in fact, I believe
that is just unpartitioned space on the drive.
You should be able to get rid
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Sent: Friday, 25 July 2014 11:08 PM
To: mac access
Subject: update on my OS 10 partition issue.
hey all,
thanks to a suggestion from a good friend of mine i'm going
I have created 2 partitions on my external hard drive, and have put data on it.
I want to delete the empty partition , but don’t want to lose data.
How do i do this?
George Cham
george.c...@mac-access.net
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If you are using a mac you can do a time machine backup before deleting the
partition.
On Mar 4, 2014, at 3:37 PM, George Cham george.c...@mac-access.net wrote:
I have created 2 partitions on my external hard drive, and have put data on
it.
I want to delete the empty partition , but don’t
If the partition is completely empty, you can just use Disk Utility to
remove the partition. I am assuming you are trying to revert back to a single
partition? This will not delete the existing data.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
Tel, (631) 724-4479
Email, j
Hi John,
I tried that, but could not find the empty partition .
George Cham
george.c...@mac-access.net
On 5 Mar 2014, at 9:15 am, John Panarese jpanar...@mac-access.net wrote:
If the partition is completely empty, you can just use Disk Utility to
remove the partition. I am assuming you
In the table in Disk Utilities, the top item should be the storage device
itself, which will have the manufacturer and size. This is what you want to
select. Then, navigate to the Partition tab and select it. From that
interface, you can choose, remove partition.
Take Care
John D
Hi all,
Ok this should be a trivial exercise but I’m doing something daft. I have a
mac running Mountain lion however I need to put Lion back onto it in such a way
that it can be dual-booted. The mac as one SSD which runs the main OS and a
2TB HD which I will use as my Lion partition.
All
Evening all,
Well I think lots and lots of very unexpected sun here in Ireland has gone to
my head but I've done something dumb.
I was going to install 10.9 on my macbook pro so I created a second partition.
Then I decided not to so I erased that partition again. I now want to increase
Hi Phil,
SuperDuper! and Carbon Copy Cloner can backup a Bootcamp partition, but it
won't be bootable. You probably need something like Winclone. I believe that
the combination of CCC and Winclone is used by some Bootcamp users, but I don't
know about SuperDuper! + Winclone.
HTH. Cheers
You have to choose the item that has the model name and full size of the
drive to partition it. You can't choose any of the volumes of that drive. In
other words, you'd want, 3 TB WD My book, for example, and not the name of any
of the current partitions.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
In Disk Utility, select the drive in the list view of drives which you want to
partition. Note: The drive, not any existing partitions. Then, tab a couple
of times and you'll hit the tab control which is probably on First Aid. Move
to Partition then you will be able to select your partition
Thanks Gordon,
I have selected the drive, and tabbed, the only options I get are;
first aid, erase, raid and restore.
I can't find anything that says partition.
Any other ideas please?
Thanks again,
Trevor
On 12 Dec 2012, at 18:34, Gordon Smith gor...@mac-access.net wrote:
In Disk Utility
Ah! Thank you John,
I'll give it another look.
Thanks,
Trevor
On 12 Dec 2012, at 18:11, John Panarese jpanar...@mac-access.net wrote:
You have to choose the item that has the model name and full size of the
drive to partition it. You can't choose any of the volumes of that drive
Just be sure you have the name and size item and not just the name of the
volume. This is important, as you cannot partition a volume, but only a disk.
I hope this makes sense, Trevor.
Take Care
John D. Panarese
Director
Mac for the Blind
Tel, (631) 724-4479
Email, j
Thanks again John,
I found it and manage to partition it easily enough.
Trevor
On 12 Dec 2012, at 20:22, John Panarese jpanar...@mac-access.net wrote:
Just be sure you have the name and size item and not just the name of the
volume. This is important, as you cannot partition a volume
not sure whether it's
fully accessible now as I haven't tried it in a while.
On 16 Jul 2012, at 16:35, David Griffith d.griff...@btinternet.com wrote:
I have read on pages found by Google that it is possible to increase the
size of your boot camp partition by
1. Using disk utility to decrease
Yep you can remove a partition you don't need with out reformating the drive.
Just click on the partition you want to remove then click remove and read the
message to make sure it's the right one and then confirm it.
Hth.
On May 29, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Courtney Curran wrote:
Hi,
Is there a way
You certainly can remove an unused partition, but reclaiming that
space by growing another partition is problematical. Possibly,
bootcamp could do this for you, but I tend to doubt it, since it's
primary function is to create such things, not remove them.
On the other hand, having another
Does the same go with creating additional partitions ? ? For example I've
got a 2tb external drive here, all of which i'm using for data storage right
now. I've thought about setting up a separate partition on it to use for
TIme Machine backup, as the time capsule i have, a first gen
Hi,
I don't need the 3rd partition, and I want to remove it to increase the space
of the one partition that contains my growing itunes library, so I figured I'd
have to remove the unneeded one to expand the itunes partition.
Courtney
On May 29, 2012, at 1:06 PM, Travis Siegel wrote:
You
You might have to do just that. I say if you don't need it remove it. I'll be
dong that shortly with a partition I use for some stuff that I won't need to
use it for anymore.
On May 29, 2012, at 10:36 AM, Courtney Curran wrote:
Hi,
I don't need the 3rd partition, and I want to remove
On May 29, 2012, at 1:17 PM, Dan Eickmeier wrote:
Does the same go with creating additional partitions ? ? For
example I've got a 2tb external drive here, all of which i'm using
for data storage right now. I've thought about setting up a
separate partition on it to use for TIme
On May 29, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Courtney Curran wrote:
Hi,
I don't need the 3rd partition, and I want to remove it to increase
the space of the one partition that contains my growing itunes
library, so I figured I'd have to remove the unneeded one to expand
the itunes partition.
Expanding
No I've just grown partitions with out loosing data. Just drag the spliter or
enter in a different number.
Take care.
On May 29, 2012, at 11:14 AM, Travis Siegel wrote:
On May 29, 2012, at 1:36 PM, Courtney Curran wrote:
Hi,
I don't need the 3rd partition, and I want to remove
On May 29, 2012, at 2:19 PM, Sarah Alawami wrote:
No I've just grown partitions with out loosing data. Just drag the
spliter or enter in a different number.
Well, if disk utility can do that, then you're all set. I'd never
tried that, so didn't know it offered that feature. Pretty useful.
step by step instructions on how to partition a hard drive and still keep data.
Enjoy.
http://www.macworld.com/article/164643/2012/01/live_partition.html#lsrc.rss_howto
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You
If you installed it let's say from a CCC back up you will not have a partition
unless you install to an external do one more restore but I forgot how to do
that. I think I did it from my dvd I have of lion. I installed on my CCC drive,
moved it over to my mac drive, slipped in my dvd
Hello Zack
I have been participating in, and watching this thread and I have a query. My
understanding is that, if you want to backup a BC partition from the mac you'd
have to use a sector-level backup utility. I don't think either Super Duper! or
CCC will allow you to do that because as I
Hi Lynn,
You're quite correct. CCC or SuperDuper would not back up any bootcamp
partition, you'd need another backup utility to do that. I'm not sure what
programs are available for such tasks, as I find CCC adequate for my needs.
This is probably a good argument in favor of single-file VM
hello Zack
And the point I was trying to make here, but neglected too was that even if you
used Fusion and ran your instance of Windows from that using your BC partition
which, I am sure, is perfectly possible, that wouldn't enable you to back up
the Windows install any more easily. So you'd
Hi All,
I don't use Windows through BootCamp or VMWare Fusion, but I thought I would
quote the results of a Google search from the Carbon Copy Cloner FAQ:
http://help.bombich.com/kb/troubleshooting/can-ccc-back-up-my-bootcamp-windows-partition
begin quote
Home → Knowledge Base → Frequently Asked
there?
Eric Caron. I have all ready had Windows 7 and Jaws give mme headaches and
would like to revert to a time when things were working right. This would save
me time and give me peace of mind. I wish CCC could do this but thought I read
somewhere that it doesn't do the bootcamp partition
somewhere that it doesn't do the bootcamp partition as it does the Mac
partition.
suggestions greatly appreciated!
Eric Caron
On Sep 2, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
Have you tried WinClone?
Gordon
On 2 Sep 2011, at 05:16, Eric Caron wrote:
Hi folks,
I now have
working right. This would
save me time and give me peace of mind. I wish CCC could do this but thought
I read somewhere that it doesn't do the bootcamp partition as it does the Mac
partition.
suggestions greatly appreciated!
Eric Caron
On Sep 2, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Gordon Smith wrote
time and give me peace of mind. I wish CCC could do this but
thought I read somewhere that it doesn't do the bootcamp partition as it
does the Mac partition.
suggestions greatly appreciated!
Eric Caron
On Sep 2, 2011, at 4:48 AM, Gordon Smith wrote:
Have you tried WinClone?
Gordon
and
would like to revert to a time when things were working right. This would
save me time and give me peace of mind. I wish CCC could do this but
thought I read somewhere that it doesn't do the bootcamp partition as it
does the Mac partition.
suggestions greatly appreciated!
Eric Caron
Hi Eric,
THe question is whether or not you're running a VM with a virtualized hard
disk. If you do that, then yes, the VM is just one more file for CCC to back
up on your Macintosh HD. If not, and you use the Bootcamp partition with
Fusion, I'm not sure what happens, as I've never needed
Hi folks,
I now have a working Windows 7 partition on my Macbook. I currently
use Carbon Copy Cloner to back up my Mac HD. I also have Time machine running
as well.
I don't want to have to go through the process of getting Windows up
again. How do I best back up
mini before it became corrupted. Now, I want to remove
the partition all together returning my system to mac only. How do I
accomplish this removing all remnants of XP restoring my entire 360 hd for
mac?
thanks in advance!
Best Regards, Cornell
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