Donna, Assuming you have a MBP or laptop, the eject key is the top right one on the keyboard and a press and hold for about 3 seconds will eject the disk.
To successfully install SL again, firstly power the machine down, now start it back up again, the second you hear the Apple noise, sorry there's no way to describe that :), press and hold the letter C on the keyboard, do not let it go until your CD drive begins to work and by that I mean you can hear it accessing the disk. keep your finger on the C key for about another 5 plus seconds and release. you should continue to hear your disk drive spinning and reading for a good minute or so. once it all goes quiet press command F5 and again you should hear the disk spin up, after another 15 seconds or so, Voice Over should kick in and you should be able to install OSx again yourself. at the point the operating system restarts, i.e. you get to that funky bit of music, which visually shows a few screen shots etc of a Mac in use. hold the power key for about 10 seconds until your Mac powers down. when you now give the machine to the person you've sold it to, they will power it up to that music again and it will be as if it were brand new. oh, before powering it down, remove the CD the way I outlined at the start, pressing and holding eject for about 3 seconds which is the top right key. Regards, Neil Barnfather Talks List Administrator Twitter @neilbarnfather TalkNav is a Nuance, Code Factory and Sendero dealer, for all your accessible phone, PDA and GPS related enquiries visit www.talknav.com URL: - www.talknav.com e-mail: - serv...@talknav.com Phone: - +44 844 999 4199 On 16 Sep 2011, at 11:41, Donna Goodin wrote: Hi all, Please excuse the cross-post. I just erased my disk yesterday in order to sell my Macbook Pro. I thought I'd have a chance to reinstall the OS, but it took me back to the app store, apparently wanting me to create a new Apple ID, I inserted my old Snow Leopard disk, just hoping to get an OS on the thing, and now, I don't seem to be able to eject the disk. 1. Is there some way I can make the Mac boot from the SL DVD, so that this guy can at least get a computer with an installed OS? 2. Lacking that option, how do I get the SL disk out of the machine. 3. What should I have done differently, so that I erased my data but still had an OS? Thanks, Donna -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
