Apple :: OS X Install Bloated Reinstallation
Mar 9, 2009
So I managed to do the unachievable... I junked my OS X install the same way Windows junks by itself in 6 months
The super snappy interface now randomly throws beach balls at me, Safari 4 often pauses for several seconds while scrolling through a page...apps take 20-30% longer time to launch...
It's not like the system is crawling, it's just that it feels a lot more bloated than what it was a few months ago Possibly due to the fact that I installed a lot of junk applications
I tried cache cleaning etc but didn't help all that much
Been thinking of doing a reinstall but without losing my personal data..
- Take a time machine backup
- Do a clean reinstall
- Restore backup
The question I have is what options do I choose when restoring the backup
- I need to make sure my Documents/pictures/Videos etc are restored as-is
- I'd prefer to get back some of my applications although I am not sure if restoring the applications would make the entire reinstall exercise futile since the junk apps would also return back.. Is there any way I can selectively choose the apps to restore
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Nov 21, 2009
Apple not only fixed the issue for me but went above and beyond by giving away a free Magic Mouse as a compensation for the inconvenience I had to go through. The fix was simple reinstallation of Mac OS X.
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Nov 5, 2008
i got a Vista Reinstallation DVD with my Studio 1735.
1. Do i need to format c before i can install a clean vista with this DVD? If that is correct, how can i format c without a floppydrive?
2. Or does using the Reinstallation DVD automatically format the HDD? Will i loose the recovery partition this way? And perhaps some more important hidden partions? Because i would like to keep the recovery partition.
3. i have heard about problems with mediabuttons, when reinstalling Vista. Will they not work anymore or crash my pc, after using the Reinstallation DVD?
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Sep 23, 2009
Dell Inspiron laptop has a corrupted Vista operating system and needs reformatting, however he seems to have lost all the disks that came with the PC (except for the Media Direct 3.5 disk).
My question is can I use a standard (non dell branded) Vista disk to install Vista on his laptop (using the CD key on the bottom of his laptop?)
or do I have to use the original dell branded vista CD that came with the laptop?
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Nov 30, 2008
I have an Acer 6920G with tons of problems so I wanted to reinstall vista. The thing is that a Vista installation CD didn't come with it, just a CD key on the label. And I didn't create a backup of the system.
In Acer Empowering Technology there's an option called "Restore factory defaults" which didn't work. When I click it, it warns me that all data will be lost and that I have to restart the pc. I click Yes then the notebook restart but nothing happens, it just boot Vista like it usually would.
My question is: is it legal to download Vista and use the CD key on the label?
A few of my problems are
-BSOD when i launch games (sometimes)
-Random music start playing even though I have no music player up, not even in processes. this is the weirdest bug I've ever seen. It starts playing a random song for like 10 seconds then stop.
-Slow system, I just feel like a fresh installation would fix everything.
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Apr 3, 2009
So I'm planing on reformatting my E1505, but I'm faced with a daunting problem. My laptop screen is broken.
This is the first time I'm reformatting on my own and I'm worried that the broken screen would cause a problem. The monitor I have hooked up only starts showing things from my laptop after the boot up process gets to the blueish screen that says Windows is starting up.
If I were to go into the installation menu, is there a way for me to get it to appear on my external monitor instead of the broken laptop monitor?
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Aug 3, 2014
I have a Lenovo G780 who was in Windows 8.
I have a problem with and now i cannot reinitialize it. Windows 8 corrupted and the image who found on the sAVE partition is also corrupted.
How I could to have a DVD for reinstall the system ?
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Feb 15, 2010
Dell never gave my girlfriend a disc to re-install Vista.
Actually... I'm playing the role of Tech Support Guy (even speaking to her with a difficult-to-understand Indian accent!!).
She had a crash, so I used VistaPE to get her data off of the computer. Now, I wanna restore Vista to the original factory settings. Sounds easy enough... use f8, right?
Wrong... it won't work in my case. The recovery partition is still there... I just can't access it. The operating system won't boot up at all. I used a non-Dell Vista Home Premium disc to access the Vista System Recovery option, but that doesn't help. I can't get at Dell's recovery partition.
I figure if I had a re-installation disc that's actually from Dell, I could access Vista's System Recovery feature that includes the Dell option to restore the computer to the original factory settings. Problem is, I can't get ahold of one.
Does anybody know where I can find one without going directly to the Dell website? I think Dell has the worst customer service on the planet and I would pay someone to hit me in the head with a sledgehammer before I'd spend one dollar on a Dell product. I've been scouring the internet for two days and can't seem to find a stray copy of what I need.
The computer came factory-installed with the 32-bit (x86) Windows Vista Home Premium.
Yeah... you read that right: a DELL with VISTA!! Could it get any worse?!
This whole thing is driving me bat-sh*t crazy.
I hate Dell... I thank you all in advance for any help that you can give.
Maybe someone would be so kind as to post an .iso image of their own disc?!
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Mar 17, 2009
I can't find the driver for the media buttons on the front of the Inspiron 6000 notebook. I know the buttons work, but I need the software / driver for them.
Also can't find it on the dell.com drivers page (well at least, none of the descriptions match; I may be wrong).
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Mar 19, 2010
I got my 1647 from FEDEX and so far everything seems to be good. There is a slight wobble from underneath the battery but I guess that's fine.
The laptop doesn't get as hot as fast and the RGBLED screen is a great screen. WLED seems so washed out and dull so the [over]saturated colors are welcome here.
Anyway on to the point: I've done a clean install of Windows 7 Home Premium on my laptop, I installed all the drivers, did Windows update to let it be fully updated, installed the latest graphic drivers (10.3a), and of course installed the latest BIOS from Dell (A05) .....
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Feb 18, 2013
If I were to reinstalling my operating system, will I loose all my data, personal documents and pictures?
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Oct 10, 2012
I have a Y560 ideapad and the hard disk recently crashed, I did not have enough time to take a backup of my windows copy. I have purchased a new hard disk and installed a fresh copy of windows 7 on it, downloaded all the drivers from the lenovo support website but I really would like to have done the one key recovery on the new copy of windows to set it back to the factory settings.
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Apr 3, 2013
I would like to know if a USB drive can be made bootable using Windows 7 Re-installation DISC given along with my Dell 1558 Laptop and can be used for clean installation of Windows 7.
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Nov 28, 2014
Need to re-install the Dell Webcam Center Software (not the drivers) on my laptop how to i get them?
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Apr 10, 2010
I have a spare 500GB external drive sitting around. I have never really considered using Time Machine until recently.
For the backup images that they create, do you create an image of the entire hard drive? If so, does the program compress the backup?
I am looking to do a clean install of Mac OSX. When I do a restore of my old files, I'm only looking to restore docs, pics, music, etc.. I don't want to restore previously installed program or settings. Is it possible to do that with Time Machine?
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Mar 6, 2009
installing windows on the mac and found the boot camp assistant in my OSX and it partitioned the HD and ask for the windows disk! does this mean I don't need fusion 2.0? the thread dose not mention VMware fusion, in installing widows
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Jan 27, 2009
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Aug 19, 2009
I mean install windows XP or 7 stored in a SD card( not via a sd card), because my SD slot usually free and i want to use it
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Apr 20, 2010
I have a MacBookPro5,2 that I've recently installed a 2nd HDD using an optibay caddy where the superdrive had been.
I would like to have Windows 7 running natively on that 2nd drive. Can I do this via Bootcamp? Or do I use the OS X Disk Utility app to format it as FAT and then proceed to install the windows OS without using bootcamp? I assume I would then need to install the apple drivers that are on my snow leaopard install disk.
Is that about right? Will I be able to selective boot by holding the Opt key at bootup jsut as if I had used bootcamp?
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Mar 22, 2009
Just did a fresh install of XP on my bootcamp partition. And I can't gat any drivers to work correctly with the 9600m GT. Tried several drivers from Laptopvideo2go.com, but they keep reverting to a basic VGA res and color depth. It will not let me adjust any settings.
It says sothing about the currently installed graphics drivers was written for a previous windows installation, so teh default VGA driver will be used.
If anyone has any info to help a guy out here it would be greatly appreciated.
I never experienced any issues like this on either Vista x64 or Win7 X84/64.
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Apr 2, 2009
I've bought a new HDD (Western Digital 500GB) to replace the old one because there was not enough space on it. So I replaced the hard drives, insert the DVD, hold C and the installation process starts .... but when it reaches the point to choose my destination hard drive .... there is no drive listed there to choose.
I suspected that the new hard drive is broken, so I opened another laptop (PC) that I have and I replaced the old HDD with the new one and everything works fine.
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Dec 20, 2009
How do you install Mac OS and Windows in the same computer? How does it work? Do you install them in completely separate partitions, only 1 OS can run at a time, only 1 partition is visible at a time, like common x86 Boot Manager? Or does Windows run on top of Mac OS?
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Feb 4, 2009
Can i install Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.6 on an ibook g4?
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Feb 14, 2009
The new MB runs with DDR3 memory but I was woundering to save money to use my existing 4GB DDR2 Modules... Is this posible?
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Mar 30, 2010
I am not bad c/c++ developer. I am interested in with objective c recently and have been learning about it from different sources. so I would like to start some programming with that.
my questions are:
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- if its not possible, question is "is it possible to install mac os on my x86 notebook"
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Jan 7, 2010
I have an old PowerBook G4 here which once had a dead hard drive that I have now replaced. I've attempted to install both Leopard and Tiger but it acts as though the discs are corrupt in the case of Leopard, while Tiger simply fails to install after finishing one of the later stages of the install process (something after it installs the additional languages).
So I'm thinking now that there may be a problem with the DVD drive, and would like to install from a USB drive - is this possible? I would like to do this with Tiger preferably as I already have an image of the disc on another computer.
Another idea of mine is that it is a RAM issue. Possible? I can try removing one of the sticks.
Oh and another minor problem is that I seem to be unable to get all the hinge screws all the way back in... but this doesn't matter if I can't even install OSX on the thing.
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Mar 23, 2009
Is it possible to install iPhoto 09 on OSX Tiger or I need to install leopard first?
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Aug 31, 2009
I'm trying to install OS X onto a computer using a external dvd drive. I have heard that alot of dvd drives won't read the OS X disc. Anyone know of a specific brand and model of external drive that will boot the retail install disc?
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Apr 1, 2009
when trying to install the latest version of Flip4Mac i've got a warning saying that the program modified or need access to kernel or what not.... then ask for password.
i forgot the exact wording.
- what does the warning says/means?
- why does the warning comes up? this is the only program with this warning, even techtool program doesnt do this.
- anyone else get this?
- is it ok to okay it?
i install it (ok it). no ill effect. but i would hate if flip4mac is changing the kernel like a haxies program or antivirus program. the old flip4mac doesnt do this.
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Aug 17, 2009
Is it possible to install winXP on MBA without the superdrive?
I know you can install Mac OS X via remotely without external cd drive since OS X cd has the file required for it.
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