Ok, thats what I was thinking.... but I guess my problem is, what key do I hold on boot to select which drive to boot off of? Is it still C? I thought C was to boot from the CD/DVD drive.
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Ok, thats what I was thinking.... but I guess my problem is, what key do I hold on boot to select which drive to boot off of? Is it still C? I thought C was to boot from the CD/DVD drive.
Ok.. yea.... Option and Alt are the same key. I'll do that. Thanks everybody. Be back in a few with an update.
Hmmmm.... Shut down the computer. Held the Option/Alt key and hit the power button. Main screen comes on with a grey screen only. 2nd monitor is black.
No icons of any sort in the middle. No option for anything. Just grey screen. Ideas?
Edit: This is the same thing that happened when I tried to hold down the D key for the hardware test.
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There it goes. Took about 5 minutes to get there. Shows Macintosh HD, Main Drive, Recovery 10.8 and Mac OS X. I'm assuming it's Recovery 10.8 but that icon is of a HD not a USB drive. The only icon that isn't a hard drive is the Mac OS X but that appears to be a Firewire Drive icon (White and Yellow with the 3 prong icon on it)
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I chose Recover 10.8. See what that does.
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Hmm.... do I have to format the new HD BEFORE trying to install to it? Disk Utility isn't seeing it on the format drive section of the restore OSX. Should I boot to my main drive first, open disk utility and format it and THEN restart off the thumb drive?
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Odd. Just restarted to my main 10.8 drive and opened disk utility and it's not seeing the new HD either. Do I have to mess with any of the jumpers on the new HD before I put it in the computer?
No icons of any sort in the middle. No option for anything. Just grey screen. Ideas?
Edit: This is the same thing that happened when I tried to hold down the D key for the hardware test.
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There it goes. Took about 5 minutes to get there. Shows Macintosh HD, Main Drive, Recovery 10.8 and Mac OS X. I'm assuming it's Recovery 10.8 but that icon is of a HD not a USB drive. The only icon that isn't a hard drive is the Mac OS X but that appears to be a Firewire Drive icon (White and Yellow with the 3 prong icon on it)
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I chose Recover 10.8. See what that does.
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Hmm.... do I have to format the new HD BEFORE trying to install to it? Disk Utility isn't seeing it on the format drive section of the restore OSX. Should I boot to my main drive first, open disk utility and format it and THEN restart off the thumb drive?
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Odd. Just restarted to my main 10.8 drive and opened disk utility and it's not seeing the new HD either. Do I have to mess with any of the jumpers on the new HD before I put it in the computer?
NEVERMIND. I'm a retard. The sled wasn't in correctly. It wasn't lined up on the upper left so it was in kind of crooked. LOL. DURR
Hopefully. I'll probably run under this HD for a while and see if my weird issues continue. If they don't then I'll transfer everything to this HD and zero out the other one.
Ok. New questions.
I have the Adobe Creative Suite on the hard drive "Macintosh HD" which is the HD that came with this computer.
Now that I'm booting off this new HD, I tried to open InDesign and it said it was missing components and had to be reinstalled. Why would I have to reinstall it just to run it off another HD?
I have the Adobe Creative Suite on the hard drive "Macintosh HD" which is the HD that came with this computer.
Now that I'm booting off this new HD, I tried to open InDesign and it said it was missing components and had to be reinstalled. Why would I have to reinstall it just to run it off another HD?
I'm guessing ACS is looking for some files in your user/libary folders. You could search for any Adobe folders on your original HD and copy them over to the exact same płace on the new one, but it's probably easier just to reinstall. Or you could use the Migration Assistant to move ACS over to the new HD. Yeah, do that. It's best to keep your apps and user folder on the same drive.
I was trying to reinstall. I ended up calling Adobe Tech Support and doing a little key combo got a special code that I gave to the tech and she gave me a diff code to put in so that it was happy and it installed.
Option and Alt are the same on a Mac keyboard. At least this wireless one I am typing on.
I know but on a windows keyboard, the windows key is on the left side of the the Alt key, which on an Apple keyboard it would be the option key. When I was on a hackintosh using a windows keyboard I have to remap the two keys in order to function correctly. It means that natively your windows keyboard "windows" key will function as an Alt key and your Alt key will function as a command or apple key.