Re: booting into Windows

2012-12-24 Thread Paul Hunt
Hello everyone. I have Windows 7 64 bit installed in a boot camp partition and it worked for a while. Now when I try to boot into Windows I get a black screen. However I can see the partition and my data. Have any of you ever experienced this behaviore? If so, how did you fix this? Merry Christ

Re: booting into Windows

2012-12-24 Thread Phil Halton
It depends on your setup. When you get to the boot manager screen, there are a line of icons, one for each bootable partition. Usually, from left to right they are Mac HD, then the Recovery HD if you don't have any other bootables on the system. When you bootcamp, a third icon for Windows is add

Re: booting into Windows

2012-12-24 Thread chris bruinenberg
WHen the startup sound is heard. press and hold the option key. Then right erow and it will work. On Dec 24, 2012, at 7:39 PM, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > What is the easiest way to boot into Windows when restarting the Mac if you > don't want to change the startup disk to Windows in preferences? I

booting into Windows

2012-12-24 Thread Cheryl Homiak
What is the easiest way to boot into Windows when restarting the Mac if you don't want to change the startup disk to Windows in preferences? I just installed a bootcamp partition with Windows. -- Cheryl May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable to You, Lord, my r

Re: Does the hard disc need to be partitioned for boot camp?

2012-12-24 Thread Rachel Feinberg
I attempted a repair of the HD in the recovery menu, but will again. The biggest thing on here is probably the music, but no way is it full. thanks a lot for your direction. On Dec 24, 2012, at 8:04 PM, "Phil Halton" wrote: > Maybe a permissions repair executed from the recovery partition migh

Re: Does the hard disc need to be partitioned for boot camp?

2012-12-24 Thread Phil Halton
Maybe a permissions repair executed from the recovery partition might help. That is, if you actually don't have a full HD, though it is being reported as such. - Original Message - From: "Rachel Feinberg" To: Sent: Monday, December 24, 2012 7:01 PM Subject: Re: Does the hard disc ne

Re: Does the hard disc need to be partitioned for boot camp?

2012-12-24 Thread Rachel Feinberg
I have begun reading the documentation, and there in lies my problem. I'm unable to get bootcamp assistant to create a windows partition on the hard disc. It says there's not enough space. With a 128 GB SSD, I'm not sure why this error is occurring. Due to my research, I thought partitioning the

Re: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2012-12-24 Thread Beefcakes
Thank you Gavin, and the same back to you and yours. Blessings, John Cakes On Dec 24, 2012, at 5:11 PM, Gavin Grundlingh wrote: > Hi all, > > It's just past midnight in my part of the world, and that means the start of > Christmas day. I'd just like to wish everyone on the list a very, very m

Re: Does the hard disc need to be partitioned for boot camp?

2012-12-24 Thread Phil Halton
have you read through the bootcamp documentation? It sounds like you're attempting to do this without having read the basics. I wouldn't suggest doing anything until you've thoroughly read and understood the steps involved in installing window in bootcamp. The bootcamp utility will do the part

Re: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2012-12-24 Thread Christopher-Mark Gilland
Thank you so much. The feeling is mutual. Thank you kindly, Christopher-Mark Gilland. Founder of CLG Productions - Original Message - From: Gavin Grundlingh To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Sent: Monday, December 24, 2012 5:11 PM Subject: Merry Christmas and a Happy New Y

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

2012-12-24 Thread Gavin Grundlingh
Hi all, It's just past midnight in my part of the world, and that means the start of Christmas day. I'd just like to wish everyone on the list a very, very merry Christmas, and a fantastically awesome 2013! May all your endeavours succeed, and may God's protection be with you and your family wh

Does the hard disc need to be partitioned for boot camp?

2012-12-24 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Hi all, Relating to my earlier post about bootcamp and it saying the hard disc doesn't have enough space to be partitioned, will it work if I partition my hard disc? Going from 1 to 2 partitions? i'm in the process of backing up my most important files, and will then partition the hard disc fro

Re: Unable To Install Windows On My Mac At All

2012-12-24 Thread chris bruinenberg
one thing i thought of is maybe it's a bad iso file? Also, do you possibly have another mac on your network? You might be able to mount it with your other mac i don't know if this is possible at all -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" gr

Podcast issues. Need tips

2012-12-24 Thread Mike M
Hey podcasters. So I have been publishing podcasts regularly with wordpress on htn2.com. I just tried to post our 39th episode and did everything the same as I normally do. I write up the post then embed the link into it. This has worked reliably for months until no

Re: Bootcamp Assistant says there's not enough space on the startup disc for a partition

2012-12-24 Thread Phil Halton
If you're talking about the recovery partitionscreen that you get to by selecting Recovery HD from the boot manager screen, then Command F5 should bring up VO there. The disk utility is available there and not at the boot manager screen. You can't get speech at the boot manager screen, which is

Re: Bootcamp Assistant says there's not enough space on the startup disc for a partition

2012-12-24 Thread Daniel C
Don't think you can get VO to speak at the boot menu. Pressing option allows you to select a start-up disk but during that time only the basic kernel is loaded, no sound drivers would be. Best option would be command plus r for recovery, maybe then you could try and change the startup disk by ex

Off-topic - using python scripts on the PC for converting Kindle books

2012-12-24 Thread Rahul Bajaj
Hi all, I read somewhere that there's a way of converting Kindle books on the PC into text by using some python scripts. Has anyone tried it? How does it work? Cheers, Rahul -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this gro

Re: Spotlight

2012-12-24 Thread Eugenia Firth
Hi guys I have always gotten in the habit of using spotlight most the time. I started doing that because my teacher at Apple when I took one to one showed me how to do that, and I got in the habit of it. I just press command space bar type a few letters, And most of the time, they're idiots.

Bootcamp Assistant says there's not enough space on the startup disc for a partition

2012-12-24 Thread Rachel Feinberg
Hi all, I've created a USB Flash drive with all the Windows files and support software to install Windows 7 on my Macbook air with a 128 GB SSD. However, the first step is keeping me from this goal. I run Bootcamp Assistant, and it says that the startup disc doesn't have enough space to be par

Re: Drobo Accessability

2012-12-24 Thread Neil Barnfather - TalkNav
It is, or was not, accessible last time I tried it mid this year. I bought a NetGear Ultra NAS four bay model, very well made device, takes anything from 1 to 4 drives and is in my view as good as the DroBo. It has the same beyond RAID technology although NetGear call their version X-RAID. You

Re: Spotlight

2012-12-24 Thread Les Kriegler
I use spotlight to search for files and the dock for launching programs. Les On Dec 23, 2012, at 3:31 PM, Agent086b wrote: > Hello all, I rarely see any mention of Spotlight search even in some very > good podcasts. I find Spotlight one of the most useful features since moving > to the Mac. I

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2012-12-24 Thread Kawal Gucukoglu
Hello All. At long last, I will be in receipt of my I Mac hopefully before or by 2 Jan. I've been without a computer for sometime so haven't been reading all the threads regarding Itunes 11. I tried using Itunes 11 at work on my Windows PC using Jaws but could not make head or tail as I'm so u

Re: Skype questions

2012-12-24 Thread Shawn Krasniuk
Hi Alison. I don't think you can delete voicemail from Skype but I could be wrong. Shawn Sent from my white Mac Book -- 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 uns