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• I have recived portable computer of the Government with windows pre installed 7professional but now I want to format and reinstal it I require the startup disk and product key (my OS is authentic)

  I have recived portable computer of the Government with windows pre installed 7professional but now I want to format and reinstal it I require the startup disk and product key (my OS is authentic)

  If it's a copy of volume license installed, you will need to contact your employer to find the product key and get the installation files.

  If it is preinstalled at the factory with Windows 7 Professional, then use the recovery partition to reinstall Windows 7.

  New computers coming often pre-installed with Windows 7 have what is called a recovery partition. This is used to reinstall an operating system in the case of a system failure. To access it, you need to start when you start your computer by pressing a function key. This can be either F1, F2, F9, F10, F11, F12 key DEL or tab. See the manual that came with your PC for instructions on how to reinstall Windows.

  This is how the recovery partition is accessible to most popular brands...

  For Dell, press CTRL + F11 directly after switching on the device

  For HP, press F11 directly after switching on the device

  For LG, press F11 directly after switching on the device

  For Toshiba, press and hold "0" BEFORE and during the power upward

  For Acer, press and hold ALT + F10, as soon as you see the logo

  For Asus, press F9, as soon as you see the Asus logo.

  For Samsung, press F4 to the power upward...

  For Fujitsu, press the F8 key directly after the power

  Advent, restart your computer. Then, press F10 repeatedly until the message "Starting system recovery"

  Sony VAIO, reboot and press "F8" or "F10" repeatedly until the screen "Advanced Boot Options".

• Uninstall the bootcamp partition: the startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.

  A few months ago, I created a Windows 8 bootcamp partition, and then, I updated for Windows 10 without any problem. But I no longer need and I would attribute this space to OS X. The problem is when I try to remove it from the app of Bootcamp, I get this message: "the startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition. The startup disk must be formatted in a single volume in Mac OS extended (journaled) or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows. »

  It comes to the current state of the hard drive:

  

  You have an idea? Thanks for the help.

  I finally solved it. It seems that I had a not mounted partition which it has not been used. I removed it and it solved all the problems:

• Boot Camp error - the startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.

  I use an iMac (retina 5K, 27 inches, end of 2014), the Version of OSX EL Capitan 10.11.1.

  I tried to install windows via bootcamp, but failed. And then, when I'm trying to use Boot Camp Assistant to remove the existing Windows Partition.

  Below will error was triggered.

  The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.

  The startup disk must be formatted in a single volume in Mac OS extended (journaled) or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant to install Windows.

  I want to just delete the Windows Partition and reinstall, can someone help me please

  Here are my details to disc...

  List of $ diskutil

  / dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * GB 121,3 disk0

  1: disk0s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB

  2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 121.0 GB disk0s2

  3: disk0s3 Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134,2 MB

  / dev/disk1 (internal, physical):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * 1.0 TB disk1

  1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

  2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 895.8 GB disk1s2

  3: disk1s3 Apple_Boot Recovery 650,1 MB HD

  4: NO NAME 104.9 MB disk1s4 EFI

  5: NO NAME 104.9 MB disk1s5 EFI

  6: EFI No. 104.9 MB disk1s6 NAME

  7: EFI No. 104.9 MB disk1s7 NAME

  8: disk1s8 NO NAME 104.9 MB EFI

  / dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD + 1.0 TB disk2

  Logical volume on disk1s2, disk0s2

  6F4F36AE-BEB3-43EA-8390-C5E7F46574B6

  Fusion unencrypted drive

  List of cs $ diskutil

  CoreStorage groups of logical volumes (1 found)

  |

  + Logical Volume - Group 7C72C890-404F-4CE8-AA74-3AAD4B71D773

  =========================================================

  Name: Macintosh HD

  Status: online

  Dimensions: 1016788279296 B (1.0 TB)

  Free space: 114688 B (114.7 KB)

  |

  +-< physical="" volume="">

  |   ----------------------------------------------------

  |   Index: 0

  |   Disc: disk1s2

  |   Status: online

  |   Dimensions: 895799427072 B (895,8 GB)

  |

  +-< physical="" volume="">

  |   ----------------------------------------------------

  |   Index: 1

  |   Disc: disk0s2

  |   Status: online

  |   Dimensions: 120988852224 B (121.0 GB)

  |

  +-> EB5AF0A2-99C5-41DB-B58F-D98B3589AC65 family of Logical Volume

  ----------------------------------------------------------

  Encryption type: no

  |

  +--> Logical Volume 6F4F36AE-BEB3-43EA-8390-C5E7F46574B6

  ---------------------------------------------------

  Disc: disk2

  Status: online

  Size (Total): 1010932908032 B (1.0 TB)

  Reversible: no

  Name: Macintosh HD

  Volume name: Macintosh HD

  Content indicator: Apple_HFS

  LVG Type: Fusion, sparse

  $ sudo fdisk/dev/disk0

  Disk: geometry / dev/disk0: 14751/255/63 [236978176 sectors]

  Signature: 0xAA55

  From end

  #: cyl hd s - cyl hd s id [Start - size]

  ------------------------------------------------------------------------

  1: EA 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1-236978175]

  02:00 0 0 0-0 0 0 [0-0] unused

  03:00 0 0 0-0 0 0 [0-0] unused

  04:00 0 0 0-0 0 0 [0-0] unused

  Delete disk1s4-disk1s8 using disk utility, run

  Reset the management system (SCM) controller on your Mac - Apple Support

  How to reset the NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support

  and try again Deputy BC.

• Change startup disk

  My current boot drive is full, and this causes problems.

  What is the best way to install a new system on a different startup disk and I have to reinstall all my applications everywhere.

  Any help and advice appreciated.

  See this help topic...

  How to install OS X on an external drive connected to your Mac - Apple Support

  If you want to replace internally, you can use SuperDuper or double clone to create a clone. Then format the new disk and either clone back or set up fees and use the installation wizard to migrate.

  http://osxdaily.com/2014/10/18/clean-install-OS-x-Yosemite/

  https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=0K82njigCTA

• Win XP: What type of VCD, I need to use to create a startup disk?

  Hello

  My PC could not write the DVD disc, he could only write a VCD disc.

  When you create a boot disk, can I know what size disk of memory should I use?

  If I replace my hard drive (drive C) and after format, can I restore just copy all the files from the hard drive back to the top, and paste it into the new drive? If not can I copy from the CD backup?

  Thank you

  Low

  Hello

  If you create the Windows XP startup disk, 700 MB CD is enough.

  Follow this message posted by A.user and Umesh:

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_xp-system/create-a-bootable-CD-emergency-repair-disc-for-XP/fc7b8e94-49ED-4f1e-962e-1abe5a30be50

  According to the second question:

  If you replace the hard drive and format it him, you have to reinstall Windows, but if you have all of your backup data then you can transfer the after that the Windows installation is complete.

  Hope the above information is helpful.

• problem to create the windows xp startup disk.

  n error occurred during the creation of the wizard disk.
  Please make sure that the disk is properly formatted and that there at least 1.4 MB free.

  Hi shlomy6666,

  · Are you able to work with the other disks?

  · What method you follow to create the startup disk?

  See the link below which was the same: 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.

  Visit our Microsoft answers feedback Forum and let us know what you think.

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• Want to format a disk and set up time machine

  Hi all

  I don't currently have access to a MAC, so yo please would undergo some basic questions?

  I have a client with a G-Drive 2 GB with NTFS.   I would like to format it for what is Time Machine friendly and configure for Time Machine.  Could someone point me to the proper indication?

  How to partition and format the disk and what (FS) file system should I use?

  Time Machine RESIDE on every MAC or what I need to download and install it?

  Where the time Machine?  Utility applications?

  Thank you very much

  T

  I see on the web when you plug the thing, get you will invite to time machine.

  1. consider a Mac and then see #5.

  2. see #5.

  3 Time Machine is present on every Mac running 10.5 and newer.

  4 elements of it are in system preferences, then the Applications folder.

  5. Yes, you will be. Time Machine manages the process of formatting before the first backup.

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• Repair your startup disk Bootcamp disappearing after you create the new partition

  . After some research, I found that it was the way forward to create a separate partition, and so I did another partition.

  I didn't know it would affect my Windows partition that I thought it was completely different.

  So now, when I start it up, there is no option to start with Windows. But when I boot the Mac and select Startup disk, it displays Boot Camp is still there, and all my files etc. are still there.

  I tried to create one separate partition (other than Bootcamp). After that its done and I started my computer, I found that the option to boot Windows (Bootcamp startup disk) has disappeared. But I still see boot camp Mac files. Any solution for this? Thank you.

  (I tried to find this solution on the discussion Forum, and I found: repair Boot Camp after having created the new partition, however, I'm not able to follow these instructions. any help would be appreciated)

  For reference:

  Aerospews-MBP: ~ the marcuslo list $ diskutil

  / dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * GB 500,3 disk0

  1: disk0s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB

  2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 350,7 GB disk0s2

  3: disk0s3 Apple_Boot Recovery 650.0 MB HD

  4: Apple_HFS 47.6 Untitled GB disk0s4

  5: Microsoft database BOOTCAMP 101,0 GB disk0s5

  Aerospews-MBP: ~ list of cs marcuslo$ diskutil

  No logical volume group CoreStorage found

  Aerospews-MBP: ~ marcuslo$ sudo TPG - vv - r show/dev/disk0

  See the TPG: / dev/disk0: mediasize = 500277790720; SectorSize = 512; blocks = 977105060

  See the TPG: / dev/disk0: PMBR to sector 0

  See the TPG: / dev/disk0: Pri GPT to sector 1

  See the TPG: / dev/disk0: GPT Sec at sector 977105059

  start index size summary

  0 1 PMBR

  1 1 Pri GPT header

  2 32 table GPT Pri

  34 6

  40 409600 1 part TPG - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

  409640 684969040 2 part TPG - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  685378680 1269536 3 part TPG - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  686648216 92929128 4 part TPG - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

  779577344 262144

  779839488 197265408 5 part TPG - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

  977104896 131

  977105027 32 table dry GPT

  977105059 1 dry GPT header

• Bootcamp error: "the startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition" and Windows recovery partitions

  I have Setup with Bootcamp Windows 8 and then upgrade to Windows 8.1, and then upgrade to Windows 10.

  When I want to restart the training camp that I got the error message: "the startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.

  According to this page, it is because of Windows recovery partitions added during the 8 to 8.1 migration and 8.1 to 10.

  I check with diskutil and I found 2 partitions of Windows Recovery:

  diskutil list

  / dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * GB 500,3 disk0

  1: disk0s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB

  2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 419,4 GB disk0s2

  3: disk0s3 Apple_Boot Recovery 650.0 MB HD

  4: Microsoft database BOOTCAMP 79.1 GB disk0s4

  5: Windows Recovery 471.9 MB disk0s5

  6: Windows Recovery 472,9 MB disk0s6

  / dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD GB + 419,0 disk1

  Logical volume on disk0s2

  C961E459-1E0D-4060-A467-3B4A705264AA

  Unencrypted

  I tried to delete the Windows Recovery 2 partitions with disk utility tools but the button "-" to remove them were leaving is disabled.

  Is it a good idea to remove these partitions? If yes how?

  1. What is the year/model of your Mac?

  2. you are trying to install a new copy of the W10 or remove the existing installation?

  3. do you have the W8 or installation/upgrade W8.1 had problems before the upgrade of the W10?