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If you are worried about what folks tell you to do online, then don't take their advise. Bottom line, there were problems to begin with. That's the Os was telling you your disk needs to be repaired in the first place. Using disk utility from the startup disk was not going to make the results any...

Or else just format the external as FAT32..

Assuming this is an external HD, select the drive then command I or get info. At the very bottom there is a padlock icon, click it and a box will appear wanting and administrator password. Enter password then look for a checkbox that says "ignore permissions on selected volume" and check it.

Oops, I didn't read the title...Macbook Air. My bad. Yeah, like Delta said probably won't work and not for the faint of heart to change. Some very delicate stuff needs to be disconnected/reconnected.

Should work fine. But if your not sure about which is the correct drive do you think you can do the replacement?

Get a Time capsule or an airport extreme is the best and only answer, or else don't backup through the router and plug directly into the machine.

You may just need a stronger directory structure utility like Disk Warrior. But make sure you have a complete backup before trying anymore disk maintenance, because if the Hard drive is dying, you are lessening your chances of getting your data each time one of these utilities cranks away on a...

You now need to convert the .iso to a .dmg. Sorry...missed as the source was an iso. OSX doesn't know what to do with it. It needs to be a .dmg

You need to repartition the usb stick as GUID and reformat it as Mac OS Extended (journaled). Right now it obviously partitioned as MBR and you can see from your picture its the wrong format.

If the backup your most interested in was created on that machine or a similar spec machine, then you can boot to the 10.6 installer, go to utilities and select 'restore from backup'. This should bring up a list of backups you can choose to restore from. But, you originally said the Time Machine...

First, you really should have never created an account with the same name as the account you were transferring. Its okay to create a dummy account with a different name, but when you consolidate accounts like you did, it overwrites the other account and creates a variety of other weird issues...

If you look at the data sheet for each modem, both are DOCSIS 3.0 and there are reasons one is $20 more than the other. In short, the main differences are 3 times higher downstream speeds along with a bunch of hard to translate telecom jargon that equates to the more expensive one being much...

I've seen this same behavior on at least a couple of occasions with old G4 towers where the cinema display power button will power on the machine but not the front panel board button. It's almost like they become trained to only power on one way? It was a while ago and many repairs ago and I...

Yeah, target disk mode requires firewire. Yes, that's going to be your best bet. If you want to keep programs, the best bet is to make a disk image of the DiskWarrior preview, then once the machine is up and running with a fresh OSX install use migration assistant to migrate the apps and...

In disk utility select the drive in the left hand column (not the volume but the drive itself, it will have 100GB Seagate...). Then you will have tabs along the center of the disk utility window. Select partition. Under partition you'll see a volume scheme drop down box that says current...

The "failed to repair disk" indicates there is a problem with the directory structure that disk utility cannot repair. It could very well be corrected by using a third party utility like Disk Warrior or you may need a new drive. While booting from the "copied disk" and getting the beep codes...

What's the point provided the Time Capsule will be in your possession? It's not like you'll be able to access the data after its been reformatted without at least purchasing consumer grade data recovery software. Eventually as you over write data to it there will be no chance of recovering...

You really should read this.

Go to system preferences/international. Select input sources tab. There should a check box next to keyboard viewer (check it). Then get out of system preferences and on the menu bar on the right there should either be a flag or a new box. Click on the symbol then select show keyboard viewer...

1) Its possible 2) Would be cheaper to buy one.