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• Change startup disk 'C' to a ' on the new generation.

  I have a new version with Win 7 64 bit on a small (64Gig) SSD with a 1 TB hard drive. Is it possible swap the drive assignments of letters between these two discs, which was the start-up of the PC of the ' SSD drive?  I would do this to save the little room for manoeuvre on the SSD to have default installation programs on a small space. As you know, many installs does not give you the option to select the installation path.  Thanks in advance for your answer or any socioenvironnemental that produce the same results.

  You cannot change the boot on Windows drive letter designation, it will not allow him.

  I tried and it won't work.

• iMac won't turn. Startup disk is full. TDM won't let me edit.

  iMac won't turn. Startup disk is full. TDM won't let me edit.

  My iMac turns off 10 seconds after the start to the top. I tried repair disk running, to no avail. What is happening is because my boot drive is full, off the 500 GB I partitioned in mac, 493,63 GB is taken up. I bought a thunderbolt cable to access the TOC on my mac book, and I have access to my files now. The problem is that I can only copy files. Authorities say I read and write permissions. When I start my host computer, it says "you can still open or copy the files on the disk, but you cannot save changes to the files on the disc. Back up the disk and reformat it as soon as you can. "I'm trying to copy all my files on this computer and remove what I don't want copies, then reinstall OSX on my iMac. The problem is that some files are native to all OSX, so it would prevent me from copying the files. For example, if I want to copy my applications folder, it stops to copy once it reached the app store, because it cannot copy that. It is a problem because when it comes to the library, there are small files in there that I don't know if I can copy, then it stops at the copy and I end up with half of my files and I don't know what I need and what I have.

  Everything you need to copy the disk, then start the iMac in recovery (command-R) mode. Wipe the drive and reinstall OS X from the recovery console.

• Startup disk

  I went to the iStore to get a software update, and once this has been done, my boot on my MacBook drive now shows the name of the previous owner? For example: "Sarah." And my boot drive has been moved to 'deleted users '. Please see attached screenshots. All my images, etc. always are on my Mac. Does it matter if I am using the previous owners startup disk? Clued up too much on such things, so if anyone could give me some advice, it would be a great help! Thank you

  Don't know why your user folder has been deleted, but it sure sounds like the Mac is still signed to Apple ID from the previous owner and not yours.

  It was not properly prepared for the change of ownership, see: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065

• Unable to overcome error - "the startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.

  Hello!

  I'm trying to install Windows on my iMac (late 2013, running 10.11.6) without success.  I created the ISO to a flash drive, but when I try to use the Assistant Boot camp, I am referred to the following screen:

  

  I did my best to study solutions. The cause, by apple support discussions, is that there is another partition of pre-empting (stop) the wizard boot camp partitioning the hard drive.  I studied the partitions on my HDD after unplugging all devices and found this:

  

  This shows the main partition: Macintosh HD, the bootcamp partition: BOOTCAMP; and 2 unknown partitions: "Apple HDD ST100DM003 Media" and the same * M004.  I was able to delete the first Apple ST100DM003 HARD disk partition and ran first aid on the fusion drive after that the second he would not remove.  Also, I can't delete the boot camp partition.  I keep getting the same message when I try to install windows on a partition of the fuser unit using Boot Camp Assistant - "Startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition".

  Any suggestions?

  Please after the release of the following OSX Terminal commands.

  diskutil list

  Cs diskutil list

  A reader of merger should have underlying EFI, OSX, Recovery HD on each of the physical disks. If your previous Windows installation attempts have failed, the disks can leave in a State where BCA use/will not change them.

• Issue of startup disk

  I'm on an iMac (2010) running OSX El Capitan (10.11.2).  I only did turn El Capitan for a little more than a month, leap to OSX Mountain Lion.

  My hard drive is partitioned into two parts.  A single partition (HD Mac) works El Capitan, the other (Mac HD 2) short snow leopard.  I need to Snow Leopard for some financial software older which is not supported by a newer operating system.  I'm back from the partitions back at the start of the disc in system preferences, where both discs appeared always when I was running Mountain Lion, regardless of what disc I used actively desired.

  Here's my problem.  Yesterday, I had to use Snow Leopard.  I opted for Mac HD 2 without any problems.  After finishing my work, I opened system preferences and clicking the startup disk icon.  But opening the startup disk window, my HD Mac Player wasn't there, the only systems showing was one I used, Mac HD, more network boot.  This is NOT how things worked when I was running Mountain Lion.

  I opened and closed system without any changes and then rebooted the Mac HD preferences 2 but still not able to get Mac HD appears as a boot disk as possible.  I finally tried to restart using network boot.  After a LONG pause, my computer has rebooted and is now back on Mac HD.

  Any ideas why my Mac HD system is no longer appears in the startup disk when I switch to Snow Leopard?  That's just how El Capitan works, and I should just continue to restart the network to get HD Mac to open?  Or is there a change I can do so that I can get Mac HD displays in system preferences I'm browsing the HD 2?

  I need to use the financial software today and am a little nervous that I won't be able to return to my main drive when I finished.  I would really appreciate any ideas/tips that anyone of you could have on this issue.

  Thank you in advance for your help!

  Don't know why the startup disk preference do not have or did not see both of your boot Images... ?

  FWIW, the startup disk preference is more for the implementation of the cold boot disk, that is for switching between multiple drives.

  You should really use the Boot Manager to choose restart from the Apple Menu and then hold down the Option (Alt) key on the carillon. Then once you are in the Boot Manager will give you the start time of any other available boot drive option.

  See > How to choose a boot on your Mac - Apple Support drive

• I lost my backup for windows xp home disks and now my computer asks me for the startup disk. Is there anywhere I can download the file on a dvd?

  Windows xp starts

  I lost my backup for windows xp home disks and now my computer asks me for the startup disk.  Is there anywhere I can download the file on a dvd?

  Hi DrKathy1950,

  ·         Did you do changes on the computer before the show?

  ·         When she asks the startup disk?

  ·         You get the error message?

  ·         Are you able to boot to the desktop?

  Answer with the information required to help more.

  For reference:

  How to replace Microsoft software or hardware, order service packs and replace product manuals

• How to "Windows did not start because of a configuration of the disk of the computer problem. Could not read the selected startup disk... "on a netbook without a CD/disk drive?

  I did a lot of research and unfortunately havnt found a road toward the front of the detroit to a fix. Long story short... I installed Jolicloud as a dual boot with windows xp on netbook gateway of my wife. This netbook has no cd/dvd drive. Jolicloud wanted to screw up the startup option to not allow me to boot into windows, going Strait to jolicloud without option of windows. I tried to change it via the "menu.lst" and Grub.cfg file (I think) the only value I changed was I think 'boot... ". ' value between 1 and 2. When I restarted, then finally got a startup list (although I don't think that my modification of the value gave me the list, I had already installed manually "Grub" via the cmd prompt. I should have just restarted from there without changing anything else... because when I chose 'windows xp' in the start menu... He gave me a black screen and kept going back to the start menu. Then, I tried the "Vista loader" option... hoping that it would some how solve my problem... He asked me if I wanted to run a repair any. I agree with him and when he finished he told me that there is no enough space on the hard disk to copy the files (or something like that) then it froze kind of there. I had to do a hard reboot after that that it froze, then I got the code "Windows did not start because of a computer disk configuration problem. Could not read from the selected boot disk.  check the hardware path and startup disk, please check the windows documentation about hardware disk configuration and your hardware for more information reference manuals.

  Again, I have no drive cd/dvd on a netbook... IM assuming that im going to have to return a key USB with windows boot info to load the Manu F2 at startup... But I do not know... Help, please. Thank you

  Hello

  Follow method 1 and 4 in the article below and check if that helps resolve the issue.
  Error message: "Windows did not start because of a configuration of the disk of the computer problem.
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/314477/en-us

  I hope this helps.

• How to make a copy of windows xp home startup disk?

  I would like to know where I can get a boot drive for Windows XP home. I have a computer that is running XP and there the BSOD and I can not even boot mode safe. I would like to do a clean install, but I don't have a boot disk.

  Hi ShadB311,

  Provide us with the information below:

  · What is the number and the model of the computer?

  · The operating system was preinstalled on the computer?

  · What is the service pack installed?

  · What is the exact error message with the error code that you receive when you try to start?

  · Do you remember any recent changes made before the show?

  New installation or repair facility is the last resort that we follow to solve the problem.

  You can buy is no longer Windows XP CD that the life cycle is complete. You can check the link below: http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/?LN=en-gb&C2=1173

  However, you create the startup disk, see the link below: how to get the installation discs for Windows XP for installation of boot floppies: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994

  With regard to:

  Samhrutha G S - Microsoft technical support.

• Any ideas where to get the online startup disk?

  Vista with SP2 without MS. Have a 32 bit Windows 6.0 core dual processor 6000 X 2 3.0 GB. Want a startup disk for Windows 7. Can you help me?

  Why do you want a Vista Boot Disk (Not an Operating System disk)?

  It will not help you with Windows 7.

  Download the ISO on the link provided and make a record of repair time it starts.

  Go to your Bios/Setup, or the Boot Menu at startup and change the Boot order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the boot order, then reboot with the disk in the drive.

  At the startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, go to Setup/Bios or F12 for the Boot Menu.

  When you have changed that, insert the Bootable disk you did in the drive and reboot.

  http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html

  Link above shows what the process looks like and a manual, it load the repair options.

  NeoSmart containing the content of the Windows Vista DVD 'Recovery Centre', as we refer to him. It cannot be used to install or reinstall Windows Vista, and is just a Windows PE interface to recovering your PC. Technically, we could re-create this installation with downloadable media media freely from Microsoft (namely the Microsoft WAIK, several gigabyte download); but it is pretty darn decent of Microsoft to present Windows users who might not be able to create such a thing on their own.

  Read all the info on the website on how to create and use:

  http://NeoSmart.net/blog/2008/Windows-Vista-recovery-disc-download/

  ISO Burner:http://www.snapfiles.com/get/active-isoburner.html

  It's a very good Vista startup repair disk.

  You can do a system restart tool, system, etc it restore.

  It is NOT a disc of resettlement.

  And the 32-bit is what normally comes on a computer, unless 64-bit.

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  How to get Vista recovery media .

  There is no Vista free download legal available.

  Contact your computer manufacturer and ask them to send a recovery disk/s Vista set.

  Normally, they do this for a cost of $ small.

  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  Also ask them if it is possible to do the recovery disk/s for the recovery Partition in case of a system Crash or hard drive failure.

  They will tell you how to do this.

  Every computer manufacturer has their own way of making recovery disk/s.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• How to replace a laptop HARD drive and restore the backup without a Vista startup disk?

  Hello
   
  I need to replace the drive HARD internal of my laptop and have a picture of it, created using the backup feature in Vista, on an external USB HDD. However, I've upgraded to Vista XP via a download online and don't have a Vista disc.

  How can I create a Vista startup disk that will give access to the backup/restore function, which allowed me to restore my backup to the new HARD disk image once I did the replacement? And is there anything else I forget?

  Thanks in advance!

  Mike

  You can borrow a good Microsoft Vista DVD (not Dell, HP, etc).
  A good Vista DVD contains all versions of Vista.
  The product key determines which version of Vista is installed.

  There are 2 disks of Vista: one for 32-bit operating system, and one for 64-bit operating system.

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  It is General info how to make a Vista startup repair disk:

  Download the ISO on the link provided and make a record of repair time it starts.

  Go to your Bios/Setup, or the Boot Menu at startup and change the Boot order to make the DVD/CD drive 1st in the boot order, then reboot with the disk in the drive.

  At the startup/power on you should see at the bottom of the screen either F2 or DELETE, go to Setup/Bios or F12 for the Boot Menu.

  When you have changed that, insert the Bootable disk you did in the drive and reboot.

  http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial148.html

  Link above shows what the process looks like and a manual, it load the repair options.

  NeoSmart containing the content of the Windows Vista DVD 'Recovery Centre', as we refer to him. It cannot be used to install or reinstall Windows Vista, and is just a Windows PE interface to recovering your PC. Technically, we could re-create this installation with downloadable media media freely from Microsoft (namely the Microsoft WAIK, several gigabyte download); but it is pretty darn decent of Microsoft to present Windows users who might not be able to create such a thing on their own.

  Read all the info on the website on how to create and use it.

  http://NeoSmart.net/blog/2008/Windows-Vista-recovery-disc-download/

  ISO Burner: http://www.snapfiles.com/get/active-isoburner.html

  It's a very good Vista startup repair disk.

  You can do a system restart tool, system, etc it restore.

  It is NOT a disc of resettlement.

  And the 32-bit is what normally comes on a computer, unless 64-bit.

  See you soon.

  Mick Murphy - Microsoft partner

• Implementation work at startup disk error. How can I fix this?

  At the start of this project, I get a window that says: Scratch disk error.  The "scratch disks" is write protected or unavailable.  To open this project, the "scratch disks" will be set to your Documents folder.  Do you want to continue?  Q: How can I do this project to remember where it is "scratch disks" are, and they are not write protected or unavailable?  How could it happen?

  Hi Colin,

  Just a quick follow-up this question first.

  The problem was that a draft drawn would not find

  the stripes of the drives on startup, then I changed "scratch disks" in the right

  location, saved the project. Always after reboot, wouldn't find them.

  In addition, would not make anything in the timeline panel. Has given an error message

  about could not compile video.  Very frustrating.

  But thanks to a good friend and google, found the yet amazing right

  response.  I had a project named lets say; My 05/06/15 project.

  Removed the slashes. Saved the project named: my project 6515.

  That's all!  I guess it was looking for a player with this string path of

  characters that have the forward slashes on her.  Should have better

  put ANY punctuation sign in a sequence or project name.

  Who has solved both problems.  Thank you for your comments.

  Eric Williamson

• SSD in new ALX R4 installation and what makes the startup disk

  Have just ordered a new R4 ALX. Would have preferred to order a combo HDD SSD, but Dell didn't, this combo and the largest SSD they available was 512 GB.

  Thus, when the new PC arrives, I intend to install a 840 Samsung 1 TB mSATA SSD EVO (using an Icy Box 2.5 "to 3.5" HDD/SSD converter).

  YouTube has a video showing how:

  "Alienware Aurora ALX R4 - installation of an SSD.

  So, how can I make the SSD the startup disk and the backup HARD drive?

  Re-install the operating system? Can I clone on the SSD HARD drive, then change the boot order? Something else?

  For any help or suggestion will be appreciated.

  Problem solved - see link to post

  http://en.community.Dell.com/Owners-Club/Alienware/f/3746/t/19578114.aspx

• Is it OK to disable services icloud, icloud photo library and icloud on PC startup disk? There will be negative consequences if I disable?

  Is it possible to disable services icloud, icloud photo library and icloud 10 PC Windows startup disk? There will be negative consequences if I disable these at startup?

  You can uninstall iCloud for Windows completely if you do not use one of its features. If you do, you should let its services run. See what is iCloud for Windows?-Apple Support for more info on what it does.

  TT2

• Run the utilities from disk on machine with Yosemite Snow Leopard startup disk?

  I have a 2009 imac that came with Snow Leopard. I've since updated my OS to Yosemite. Should I run the disc from my old snow leopard startup disk utilities or is it a bad idea?

  It is not a 'bad' idea, but it is always best to use the version of disk utility which is part of the OS version installed. Do this by starting the computer from the Recovery HD.

  Fix the hard disk and permissions

  HD recovery start

  Restart the computer and after the chime hold the Order et R keys until the Menu of the utility is displayed.

  Repair

  When the Utility Menu appears, select disk utility and click on the continue button. Disk utility charges and select layouts withdrawal (usually Macintosh HD) entry of the list to one side.  Click the first aid tab, and then click the repair disk button. If disk utility reports any errors that have been corrected, then again run repair disc until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported, click repair permissions . Wait for the process to finish, and then quit disk utility and re-enter the Utility Menu. Select restart from the Apple menu.