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Holding Alt + D did the job.
Hardware Profile shows no mention of hard drive of any kind.
Result of hardware test is "No trouble found".
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The terms of Apple Care are spelled out here; http://images.apple.com/legal/applecare/docs/081811_APP_English_NA_v5.4.pdf
search for transfer
Start with one appointment. They may or may not help...
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Yes, I think that that's what I've been doing. The globe spins and there is a progress bar below the globe. But when it asks me to pick the drive to load the OS X Lion onto, it does not offer me any...
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From the utilities menu, choose Terminal
type the following (no quotes) and hit return "diskutil list"
post the output verbatim by typing it all don't worry about tabs and formatting just use...
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If the apple designers hadn't felt the need to be "cool", they could have made the bottom cover rectangular in shape, which would have made swapping the hard drive a piece of cake.
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Well, as expected that removes any doubt - It isn't recognizing your hard drive. And I'm inclined to think it is booting off a RAM disk.
You might have some recourse available with cowboom. ...
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Must spread rep around before giving it to jkee again...
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you are correct sir.
Good luck with cowboom or replacing the drives.
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Take a look at the following:
http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
Without a more detailed description of what's happening it's hard to help. Referencing...
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Take a picture of your computer screen and post it or search for tutorials and guide on the internet about using disk utility.
Do you plan on using Boot Camp to also boot some flavor of Microsoft...
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no dice on your image. just attach it here by clicking go advanced to bring up the full version of the editor and attach it by clicking the paper clip.
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Damn, I was naive enough to think that doing a rescue on a Mac would, well, for lack of a better term... rescue the Mac. And that it would be a piece of cake. :lol:
I will see if I have the...
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Becasue I am seeing 1.53GB of disk space, does that automatically mean that the system is talking to the HD (even if it's not showing more of it to me)? Or is there 1.5GB of ROM that contains the...
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There has to be something wrong with this, there is no way that a Mac, given it's reputation, shoud be this unintuitive...
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I don't really have any hands on experience with Lion Recovery myself, so there are certain parts of this where I'm guessing.
Did you hold 2 or three keys when you booted in to recovery and saw...
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Yes, I earlier verified visually that they all had a physical hard drive present.
I just removed the shiny perforated cover what has the round WI-FI antenna mounted to it on all of the 3 machines...
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Damn, all the options appear to be blocked (light gray). It won't let me partition, or erase.
On the left it shows a "disk0" and under that s "Mac OS X Base System".
for "disk0" it says:
Disc...
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Here is the result of diskutil list:
http://imgur.com/a/aiCff
http://imgur.com/a/8XvlG
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I fixed it, for some reason that site was uploading the 2 different images but kept repeatedly posting 2 copies of one of the two images instead of both images, so I had to create 2 separate albums....
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That result seems quite weird to me. Me thinks something is quite wrong. The only way I can attempt to rationalize that involves a pretty convoluted ram disk configuration created by lion internet...
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Thank you very much for the help!
When I do the same to the other 2, what specifically indicates that it's not recognizing the hard driive?
Is the RAM disk something that comes standerd? Or did I...
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Attached are the results of
diskutil list
diskutil info /dev/disk0
df
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Mac Mini OS X Lion remote rescue / recovery problem
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I forgot about this earlier, but you may be able to throw the computer into Apple Hardware Test by holding the D (some sources say command-d or option-d are necessary, if it comes down to it just try...
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This is where you connect to the LAN and then press Cntrl & R and it's supposed to reinstall OS X Lion, just in case it's not clear from my first post.
My first experience with a mac here.
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It says "select the disk where you want to install Mac OS X", but it's a blank white box, no drive is showing.
It's a mac mini from cowboom. They (or someone) wiped (but hopefully not swiped) the...
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Yeah, there's nothing on the left that has the name of a hard drive, like "1TB WDC..." on any of the 3 systems. However, the one I am trying to work on right now does have a physical drive in it....
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OK, command (windows key on a ms kb) + R automatically takes me to internet recovery (takes a few minutes for the progress bar to complete), which mens that EITHER the hard drive has failed or it did...
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As far as I can tell, there's nothing that I can click on except "Info", which is well above disk0.
So disk0 is a partition of the (500GB) HDD, right? (Meaning that the system is at least talking...
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I think I edited my last post a little after you loaded the page. Even if you can take a screenshot (command-shift-3 or 4 for different modes) you wouldn't be able to get to the resulting file to...
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NOOOOOOOO. There's no way the ROM/EFI would be that big.
Without a Hard Drive with a recovery partition, all you would get when you hold cmd-r would be a gray screen with a globe and progress bar...
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So is the 1.53GB part of the 500GB hard drive, or is it onboard ROM?
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Does the Mac Mini MC815LL/A have at least 1.53 GB of ROM to contain the Disk0 and the "Max OS X Base System" that I am seeing on the left or are they definitely a part of the 500GB hard drive?
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Here's the part that has me really confused.
The intent of the user who executes a specific recovery/restore keystroke sequence SHOULD be 101% crystal clear: The user wants to rescue/restore...
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These days, hardware repairs on most apple products are kind of a pain. They used to be much easier.
If it comes down to it, you'd be better off selling it on ebay than destroying it.
It...
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This may be a waste of time, but try rebooting one of the machines and holding command-option-r (in your case I believe alt-windows-r) or the equivalent keys to force it into internet recovery. This...
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Thanks for the help
There was a USB mouse and a USB ms ergonomic keyboard attached, nothing in the SD card slot.
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In that left hand column, there should be something above disk0 and "Mac OS X Base System" as neither of those is actually the physical disk, please click on that! A picture of your computer screen...
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Yep, it displays the screen in your first link. I select "Reinstall Mac OS X". Then it tells me to slect the drive I want to install it on and there is a white box in which it attempts to display the...
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I am not sure what you mean by a more detailed description? The computer is telling me to pick a drive onto which I want to install the OS and it is showing a rectangular light gray box from which...
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Select Disk Utility on the first screen. That will show you if you have a hard drive installed and how it's formatted / partitioned. I think we can assume you have a hard drive and that it just...
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