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Q: I no longer have disk utlity

i Stupidly deleted alot of files that obviously i needed for my mac i cant access

the "about this mac" and no longer have disk utility which i think i need in order to reset my mac  completely

MacBook Air, iOS 9, unsure of my ios

Posted on Dec 26, 2015 1:16 AM

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  • by rccharles,

    rccharles rccharles Dec 26, 2015 11:38 AM in response to Ghostmarek
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    Dec 26, 2015 11:38 AM in response to Ghostmarek

    I hope you learned your lesson.  I suggest you get an external hd.  You should turn on timemachine or do a complete backup of your hd.

    I do not know what ports you have on your machine, but avoid usb2.0.  It's too slow.

     

    Give these guys a call.  I bought this drive.

    http://eshop.macsales.com/item/Other%20World%20Computing/ME3QH7T1.0/?utm_source= google&utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_campaign=googlebase&gclid=CN_LpIuj-skCFYEfH wod3JwH7w

     

    Carbon Copy Cloner will copy your startup drive to an external  firewire drive.  You can boot from the external drive to verify that you have a good clone. When you upgrade your existing startup drive, you can at any time boot from your external drive and go back to your existing system.

    http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html

     

    SuperDuper is the wildly acclaimed program that makes recovery painless, because it makes creating a fully bootable backup painless. Its incredibly clear, friendly interface is understandable, easy to use, and SuperDuper's built-in scheduler makes it trivial to back up automatically. And it runs beautifully on both Intel and Power PC Macs!

     

    I suggest you look into recover mode, once you have your important files backed up at a minimum.

     

    command + r and see what options are available to restore your system.

    poweroff machine.  press command + r wait until your in recover mode. release command + r

     

    no longer have disk utility which i think i need in order to reset my mac  completely

    command + r has a copy of disk utility for your use [ I think ]

     

    R

  • by John Galt,

    John Galt John Galt Dec 26, 2015 11:42 AM in response to Ghostmarek
    Level 8 (48,595 points)
    Mac OS X
    Dec 26, 2015 11:42 AM in response to Ghostmarek

    It is not possible to delete Disk Utility through normal means. How did you manage to do that?