clean install

For some reason the battery on my computer is draining heavily during sleep for some reason. I already tried reinstalling Big Sur but the battery is still draining. I even got a new battery and it’s still draining. Can anybody help me with this? Running Big Sur latest version clean installed...

Hello, I have a powermac G3 blue and white. It came with an scsi card and scsi hard drive which had the os installed, but the hard drive failed and is no longer operable I removed that harddrive and I also removed the SCSI card. then i purchased a new 80 gig ultra ATA hard drive and connected...

Hey everyone, Over the year that I have owned my iMac G5, I've been sloppy about where everything is supposed to go. I've done a lot of transitions in that year, so now I would like to do a clean install of 10.4. However, I am not sure where to begin. I have backed up everything I need to...

Hi, I have a fairly new apple computer, and operating system 10.1 on it. I did a clean install today, and it says it was successful. The problem is that now the top row of keys on the numerical keyboard won't work "sound, eject etc" they always worked perfectly before now. In fact I did the...

I have an old Imac that i want to sell. But first i want the entire computer clean. I've got the Mac OS 9.1 CD. There are two hard disks in the computer. On the first one i've successfully did a clean install of Mac OS 9.1. But the other hard disk is read only. I can't format it with disk tool...

Hello everyone, I'm a newcomer to the Mac stuff (I'm a UNIX/Solaris specialist myself). I have read the forums/FAQ's but I cannot find any clear answer to my particular problem: I want to run the Classic subsystem under a clean install of 10.4.0 but all I have is my 10.4.0 install DVD...

Hi, I purchased the Tiger Retail Version DVD (which I didn't know was coming as a DVD at the time) and was going to install it on my G4. I didn't have a DVD drive so I went through media exchange and recieved the CD versions. I want to do a clean install of Tiger, but I am a little...

I reinstalled tiger on my mac mini, everything went smooth. I rebooted and the system hangs on "os x is starting up..." (right before what would be the login screen). The tiger installation disc is still in, but the system just does not boot up into the desktop/workstation. Any ideas how to...

Simple question. I think I may do a clean install of tiger after all once .1 comes out. But then I'll lose iLife, wont I? Any way to fix that? And unrelated: why does everybody keep saying to clone your hd on a backup hd. Not everybody has one just lying around.

I recently decided (this struck me randomly) that if/when I install Tiger, I would do a clean install. I like the idea of a clean slate. Except, I'm not exactly sure which files I need to back up. I know to back up my music, and my documents folder, but is there anything else to that? I...

Based on feedback from a couple threads I'd started (here and here), I'm going to backup my files, wipe my hdd, and do a clean install of Panther this weekend. I still need Classic for a couple apps, as well. Logically I'd assume I'd install 9.x first, do the necessary updates to 9.2.2, and then...

Does anyone have compelling reasons to pick one or the other option when upgrading from 10.2.8 to 10.3? I am getting conflicting advice from our local 'experts'. many thanks

ok - a difficult question I want to upgrade to panther but I want a clean install - and at the same time want to keep jaguar running on my external drive - just in case. This is what I have done so far: 1. I have an external 160gb hardrive that I have partitioned into two drives - lets...

Greetings all, AlBook, 1ghz, 500 Mb, came with 10.2.7, I upgraded to 10.2.8, then I upgraded to 10.3, and finally, upgraded to 10.3.1. I am having tons of application unexpectedly quitting, and daily kernel panics. I do the normal stuff with cocktail; permissions, cron scripts...

Sorry for beating this dead horse, but I'm about to clean install Panther, and I didn't install the OS 9 drivers when I clean installed Jaguar. Before I reboot and commit to installing, I want to know how to do this correctly. I seem to remember when Jag came out that some people said you had...

Well, I've been running Jaguar for a year without Classic installed. I get Panther today, and suddenly have to run a firmware update to install it. Problem is, the firmware update is an OS 9 only installer. So, I need to reinstall OS 9. When I boot from the installation disc, it tells me...

I may need to reformat my OS X drive and do a clean install....my question is......when installing OS X is it required by the system to have a user defined area (Home) or is it possible to just keep my personal files and folders from the system like the music & movies folders at the root level...

i recently did a clean install of jaguar, and after installing chimera, 2 of the default fonts it is asking for is missing. in the advanced font settings, chimera is asking for apple chancery as the default 'cursive' font. also, it's asking for gadget as the default 'fantasy' font. any...

Is there any possibility to make new (clean) installation of MacOSX 10.1 with new root account and users, new permissions etc. My MacOSX is on the same partition as Classic. Is there any way to erase MacOSX folders from Classic and perform a new installation?