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I synch my iPod through the PC, but I used to plug it into the old Mac, and it would back up the purchased songs. Which were then also niftily on my laptop.
Since the move to a new laptop, it's asking if I want to synch and lose all that content. I did say I wanted to back it up, not to synchronise with the (empty) iTunes install, but that's not the answer.
What do I need to do to set it up for backing up again?
(I also Doubletwist that to the Android devices, so I have a snippet of my collection on all my stuff)
MacBook Pro just died. Won't boot at all. If I try to boot into safe mode, I don't get past the Apple symbol and the spinning thing. Plus the hard drive made a funny noise while trying to boot.
So I'm guessing it's the hard drive. Luckily, everything's backed-up. Are there any diagnostics I can run from the optical drive? (Just to make sure it's the hard drive that died.)
Or should I just get a new drive, stick it in and see what happens?
Genius bar can help with that. They can connect via external drive they have to see if it's a computer thing, or the boot drive thing.
You can run the disk utility from the OS install disk.
You can run the disk utility from the OS install disk.
How old a version of the OX X install disk can I us? It is (was) running Mountain Lion but I think I'd have to go back two or three versions to find an actual install disk.
tommy,
try this. single user mode.
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How new is your Mac? This might work.
try this. single user mode.
Wow, that's cool.
Sadly, I'm not getting a command prompt. (Looks like it's dying right after it detects the boot device.)
eta: OK, now I got a bunch of disk errors too.
How new is your Mac? This might work.
Summer '09.
Sounds like internet booting is not an option, as the MacBook Pro predates Lion.
Weird. I can't get my MacBook Pro to boot from a Snow Leopard intall DVD nor from a USB drive.
I tried booting from the DVD while holding down the 'c' key and tried booting from a USB drive by holding down the 'd' key.
eta: Tried booting into single user mode so I could use the command line to mount the DVD. But I don't get a command prompt, even after the attempt to mount the HD times out.
