Re: Logon password

[Ronni Brown]

Hi Stuart,

Is this the same MacBook that would not boot up past the Blue Screen as in the 
Thread: MacBook Issues -  that we have been helping you with over the past 
weeks?

If so it would be best to reply to my last email regarding that subject and let 
us know if starting from Disk Warrior and replacing the Directory has got the 
MacBook to bootup to the Login screen?

Then ask your Forgotten Administrator Password question and I will reply to it.

Cheers,
Ronni


On 25/06/2013, at 11:16 AM, Stuart Breden  wrote:

> I can't logon to my daughter's MacBook.  
> 
> I remember there was some discussion about retrieving logon passwords but 
> can't find this.
> 
> Can someone please remind me how to retrieve a logon pass word?  
> 
> I'm currently on sick leave.
> 
> Stuart Breden
> PO Box 132
> Kalamunda WA 6926
> Ph: (08) 9257 1577
> Mbl: 0417 053 266
> 
> Please consider the environment before printing this email
> 

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Logon password

[Stuart Breden]

I can't logon to my daughter's MacBook.  

I remember there was some discussion about retrieving logon passwords but can't 
find this.

Can someone please remind me how to retrieve a logon pass word?  

I'm currently on sick leave.

Stuart Breden
PO Box 132
Kalamunda WA 6926
Ph: (08) 9257 1577
Mbl: 0417 053 266

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Fwd: MacBook issues

[Ronni Brown]

This reply that I sent to WAMUG Mailing list on Friday 21 June 2013 is not 
showing in the Mailing List Archives.
So I'm not sure if it came through to the List. I've forwarded the reply again 
just in case.

Cheers,
Ronni

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Ronni Brown 
> Subject: Re: MacBook issues
> Date: 21 June 2013 7:59:59 AM AWST
> To: wamug@wamug.org.au
> Reply-To: wamug@wamug.org.au
> 
> Hi Stuart,
> 
> You need to fix the corruption first if possible. Use DiskWarrior to Rebuild 
> and Replace the Directory if it can.
> 
> How to use DiskWarrior:
> 
> The DiskWarrior DVD is bootable.
> 
> 1.Insert the DiskWarrior DVD & Start your Mac, Hold down the “C” key to 
> start from the DiskWarrior CD.
> 
> 2.   When the computer has completed starting up from the DiskWarrior CD, the 
> DiskWarrior application will open automatically.
> 
> You will then be presented with the DiskWarrior main window from which you 
> can rebuild disk directories.
> 
> 3.Select Macintosh HD from the drop-down menu
> 
> 4.The lower portion of the main window will indicate whether the 
> directory is ready to be rebuilt.
> 
> If for some reason DiskWarrior cannot rebuild the disk’s directory, it will 
> indicate the reasons the directory cannot be rebuilt.
> 
> 5.Click the Rebuild button.
> 
> DiskWarrior will begin building the replacement directory on the disk to be 
> rebuilt. It will first analyse the disk. This analysis can take anywhere from 
> several seconds to several minutes or longer, depending on the number of 
> files on the disk. When DiskWarrior is finished, it will display a dialog 
> informing you of the results of the rebuild.
> 
> 6.Click “Replace” to use the replacement directory
> 
> If you click “Replace,” DiskWarrior will install the replacement directory on 
> your disk. This will result in your disk being “replaced” by the Preview disk 
> described above. 
> 
> 7.  DiskWarrior will install the rebuilt directory and keep you updated with 
> its progress.
> 
> DiskWarrior uses a fail-safe method of replacing the directory whenever 
> possible, which will be most cases. To use the fail-safe method, there merely 
> needs to be enough free space on the disk to write the new directory. There 
> is redundancy designed into the fail-safe method, assuring there is never any 
> risk of ending up with an unusable disk if the process is interrupted. You 
> can go back to step 4 for any disk for which the process was interrupted.
> 
> 8. Quit DiskWarrior by selecting "Quit DiskWarrior" from the DiskWarrior 
> menu. 
>  Your computer will now restart.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> On 20/06/2013, at 8:43 PM, Stuart Breden  wrote:
> 
>> Thanks Ronni.
>> 
>> I'll try Disk Worrier again.
>> 
>> My daughter does not have a back up of her hard drive.
>> 
>> I think I know how to reinstall the operating system with loosing her data.  
>> Is it all in your tutorial?  
>> 
>> Looked on your web site but can't find anything about reinstalling OS 10.4.  
>> What link do I use?
>> 
>> Stuart Breden
>> PO Box 132
>> Kalamunda WA 6926
>> Ph: (08) 9257 1577
>> Mbl: 0417 053 266
>> 
>> Please consider the environment before printing this email
>> 
>> 
>> On 20/06/2013, at 12:38 AM, Ronda Brown wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Stuart,
>>> 
>>> As I mentioned previously this indicates there is corruption/damage, 
>>> whether the system software or hardware (hard drive) we are not sure.
>>> 
>>> I take it this is a MacBook2,1 Intel Core 2 Duo... not MacBook1,1 Intel 
>>> Core Duo.
>>> Because you mentioned the MacBook came with OS X 10.4.8 installed and then 
>>> you said you updated it to OS X 10.4.8... Don't you mean you were updating 
>>> it to OS X 10.4.11?
>>> 
>>> Tim's advise of reinstalling the OS system may need to be used.
>>> 
>>> But first: You mentioned you did boot from the DiskWarrior DVD (it takes 
>>> about 10 minutes to boot from the disc) and were able to Repair and Replace 
>>> the Mac's Directory Database?
>>> 
>>> After DW finished the repair and replaced the contents of the drive with 
>>> the fixed one, what happened?
>>> Did you remove the DW disc from the drive and reboot as normal?
>>> 
>>> Ronni
>>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>>> 
>>> On 19/06/2013, at 10:53 PM, Tim Law  wrote:
>>> 
 Stuart,
 
 Just an idea - have you tried reloading your original system software by 
 starting up with the disk the computer came with? And once the computer is 
 running fine on the original OS, then upgrading it to the latest. I'm 
 wondering if somehow it's lost it's operating system. 
 
 Assuming that there were no problems before the upgrade was done, and 
 Diskwarrior and the AHT did their stuff without throwing up alarming 
 errors on the state of the disk, I'm wondering if starting again from 
 scratch would be a reasonable thing to try - through all the upgrades the 
 system software may have got corrupted somehow. 
 
 Hopefully you can do all this whilst maintain

Test NT please ignore

[Curtis Peter]

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