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  1. gr8lakeruler85

    Macbook will not encrypt any webpage and webpages only showing text after os reinstall.

    First time posting in any forum ever. Excuse me if I'm posting in the wrong area. Here is where I am at.... Early 2008 Macbook running on snow was working fine before it sat in a garage for a couple years. The battery expanded so I replaced that. Would not turn on. Beeped 3 times 5 second...
  2. berynsw

    Erased partitions on my 2011 MacBook Air and can't reinstall OS X.. Help!

    A couple years ago I added a dual boot Ubuntu partition to my macbook. Recently I wanted to delete the Ubuntu partiton to make more room for OS X. In the process of trying to remove the partition I had several issues and ended up removed all of the partitions on the SSD using disk utility in...
  3. Karmalexia

    Can't download keep saying I need to OS X

    Hi , I had problems with my MacBook Pro 2010 continuously shutting off at startup after putting in my password it went to the apple where the bar was moving but always shut off before making the bar code even halfway . So I looked up on YouTube someone mentioned to delete macintosh and I did I...
  4. ttcg52

    Macbook Pro with OS X Lion doesn't reinstall — stuck on ~19 minutes.

    Okay, so I have this Macbook Pro which was given to me for repair, but I can't seem to find a solution to it. I am a Windows expert, but newbie to the Mac world. Here's the case. In the beginning when it was brought to me the problem was that it would be stuck at the "grey screen of death." I...
  5. F

    HELP! HD locked on reinstall!

    hi lovely peeps! So I'm stuck, I wanted to start my Mac from scratch with a fresh install of EI Capitan but now my hard drive is locked! Please see the attached images. https://www.dropbox.com/s/s023l3g3di72hhi/2016-01-17 13.00.51.jpg?dl=0 https://www.dropbox.com/s/fv3ffcyobuxp26j/2016-01-17...
  6. Golden.delicious

    Prohibitory Sign, Won't Reboot OS X - NOTHING works

    It's a recently refurbished MacBook Pro 15" from late 2011 I tried resetting the pram with shift+commmand+p+r while powering on. Same prohibitory sign. I tried command+r. Same. I tried command+shift+r for the online recovery. Nothing. I tried holding down shift while powering on to run safe...
  7. K

    I have a few questions regarding partition and internet recovery

    As you can see in this thread http://forums.macrumors.com/threads/what-to-do-when-i-deleted-os-x-and-now-i-only-have-windows-8-1.1920270/#post-21933398 I have completely deleted OS X Yosemite and only have Windows left. Now that I'm quite fed up with Windows and want to use my Macbook Air for...