I did a restart on VO and it was on an install button. So I took that and now it says signing into the app store, but it's been saying this for about 20 minutes. Appears t be totally stuck doing this step. I also can't exit this. Yikes, panic.
On 5/7/14, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > 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. > -- 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.
