Hi, VO shouldn't quit working though. Hmmm.
Later... Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada On May 7, 2014, at 12:53 PM, Chris Apple boy <christopher...@gmail.com> wrote: > No you don't. It just goes ahead and erases it once you agreed to do so. You > can now quit Disk Utility and reinstall Mac Os X. > > Regards Chris > Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth! > > On 07/05/2014 19:49, Deb Lewis wrote: >> OK. Duh, I do feel stupid. This time nothing was greyed out and I >> agreed to all of the agreements. It didn't say anything like starting >> to reformat and it's just sitting there at least in terms of feedback. >> I assume I've done the deed since I didn't get any errors and there's >> no longer any VO? I guess I expected to get a start button or >> something after I agreed to everything. >> >> >> On 5/7/14, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> As Chris mentioned, you must do this from the Recovery Partition. The >>> reason everything is dimmed out is that you are currently running the MacOS >>> from that HD, so you are not allowed to erase the "blessed" running system. >>> So, restart your computer and as you hear the Startup Chime, hold down the >>> cmd and "r" keys simultaneously for about 5 seconds then release. Wait for >>> a minute or so then press cmd-f5 and see if VO activates. If it does, then >>> you can erase the HD and install the OS to base system. If VO doesn't >>> start, wait another minute or so and try again. It shouldn't take longer >>> than that to bring up the utilities. >>> >>> Later... >>> >>> Tim Kilburn >>> Fort McMurray, AB Canada >>> >>> On May 7, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Deb Lewis <deblewi...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi: >>>> I'm returning my MacBook Air to myoffice and need to reformat it >>>> first. I went into Disk Utility and selected Erase but everything is >>>> greyed out even though I've selected the drive etc. I'm obviously >>>> missing some steps, LOL. I know this should be doable with VO because >>>> I think I've seen it happen before, but as I said, I'm obviously not >>>> quite getting it right since no options are available. >>>> Thanks in advance for any help. >>>> >>>> Deb >>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >>> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
