Hi Neil, thanks for taking the time to write out such a detailed response. I got it all taken care of, fortunately. Best, Donna
On Sep 21, 2011, at 11:13 AM, Neil Barnfather - TalkNav wrote: > Donna, > > If the disk for SL you have is an upgrade one, where is the original Tiger > one? > > You can boot a Mac holding down a series of different keys to get a different > series of start up options. > > holding down the C key, will on a Mini, iMac or MBP / MBA (with Super Drive) > make the Mac start up, scan for a disk, and then boot from it. > > start your Mac up holding down the C key, keep holding it after the Mac > chime, don't let go until you hear your CD spin up, and even then, keep > holding for another 5 seconds. > > This option ensures you start up reading from the CD drive. > > Holding down the Options or Alt key does the same, but this gives you a > series of bootable options, assuming you have more than one boot source, so > folk with a MBA with USB recovery disk need to use this method. > > The eject CD key needs to be held down to get it to function, hold it down > for about 3 seconds to produce the operation. > > If you get your original recovery disk, I'm assuming in your case now to be a > Tiger disk, you can launch it using the C key method above, then once the > disk spinning finishes, wait about a minute, then press the command F5 key > stroke to start Voice Over, you should hear the CD drive spin up again for > about 10 seconds, followed by Voice Over starting up. > > You can then press VO-MM and arrow right to the Utilities Menu, and down to > disk utility, in here be sure to format your existing drive, shout if you > need help with that. > > once done, command q to exit disk utility, and now follow the on screen > prompts to reinstall Tiger. > > HTH > > > 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 12:39, Donna Goodin wrote: > > Hi all, > > OK, since I seem to be out of options here, I don't know what to do except > take the MBP into the Apple Store and have them reinstall the OS. But I > don't want to travel with a DVD in the drive. Is there a manual eject button > anywhere on this thing? > 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. > -- 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.
