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Hello Everyone, can someone help me please. My laptop is too slow now and i want to reformat my Macbook Pro 13 inch mid 2010 (software:
Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5) Everytime i insert installation disc,it says cannot use this software to this version. Please help thanks
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)
Are you using the installation DVD that came with your machine?
Clinton
Yes but it doesnt work. I tried using disc utility but all erase buttons are greyed out. I even asked my cousin to lend me her lion OS and reinstall it but all old data was still there when it finished downloading. Please help thanks
Maybe you could go to the Mac App Store, download the copy of Lion that you purchased (from the Purchases tab), get a 8GB+ USB thumb drive, and use Lion DiskMaker to create a bootable installation 'disk'. Then you could hold down the option key, boot from the USB drive and erase your drive and install Lion?
Clinton
Hi! Maybe you shoud delete you volumes from terminal? There is perfect program called "diskutil".
So far, i have no usb drive to download it to. 😟 I haven't thought that reformatting my laptop is so frustrating and difficult as I remember before, I just inserted the disc and run it and it's all good. Is there any workaround where i can do it easily? Thanks for the help
ails_1227 wrote:
Everytime i insert installation disc,it says cannot use this software to this version.
It's because your on OS X Lion 10.7 and the disks are for 10.6 or earlier.
10.7 and up have a RecoveryHD partition on the boot drive. Hold the Command R keys down and boot the machine into it and Disk Utility and Install OS X is there.
If you install OS X without using Disk Utility to erase all your data first, it just replaces OS X with a new copy.
Only by erasing all your data first, then installing OS X, will cure your slow down problems however it deletes all your users, files and programs in the process.
If you don't want to lose your files, you need to make a copy of them to a external drive before you erase the internal drive.
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My laptop is too slow
Well if you investigate why it's slow, perhaps you can fix it in place without wiping everything and starting over with nothing.
I tried doing it as well in disc utility but all buttons are greyed out. Not even erase or restore and the installation disc says unable to use this version to my current version 😟 help please
can u help me and tell me how to do it please? So basically i need to erase all data first. sorry for asking to many questions as it is my first time to do it myself. Please give me instructions and step by step process to erase and format please. Thanks for the big help
Sad to say but I'm like a grade 1 student in this kind of situation. I will be very thankful if you could help me do this thanks a lot
I think it's best for you to have someone do it and you can watch.
I've already provided instructions the best I can do here.
How to reformat macbook pro 13 inch mid 2010
