mac book format
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hello there i've got a Mac-book and i want to "format" it but i don't know how...any ideas????
Let's be perfectly clear...what are you trying to format?
Assuming you mean the hard drive...can you tell us why you need/want to format your hard drive? Just so we don't head down an unnecessary path...in case we can fix things in an alternative manner.
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i've got this problem with my mac-book: when i use my mac-book it's free space is getting smaller and smaller.
for example i have about 20Gb free hard disk space an it randomly starts and gettin smaller so there are many time i have few Kb free space, my mac-book cannot work properly, the truth is that it doesn't work so i have to delete files.
i had posted feew months ago my problem but i took no effective solutions so i think that it is better to format my mac-book...
for example i have about 20Gb free hard disk space an it randomly starts and gettin smaller so there are many time i have few Kb free space, my mac-book cannot work properly, the truth is that it doesn't work so i have to delete files.
i had posted feew months ago my problem but i took no effective solutions so i think that it is better to format my mac-book...
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Yeah...I do vaguely seem to remember this problem. If you want to reformat your MacBook's hard drive...you need a Mac OS install disk to boot the computer from.
If you don't have a Mac OS install disk...then you need one. If you do have one...let us know...and we can explain further.
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I can't see any possible reason that your MacBook is using up 20gb of space just because you are "using" it. Surely you must be downloading something/ installing something/ updating alot of things?
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the problem is that the files i'm downloading are automatically saved in my external hard drive, but when i don't have any internet connections this problem still exists.
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Yupp...you definitely need a disk to boot from to do an internal hard drive reformat.
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