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cannot restore my mac with lion

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sleimac

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Aug 11, 2011
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i want my mac to have a fresh start again and i cannot start the mac lion restore ultility when i press the command-R key during mac start up. i have tried numerous times, however it always leads me to the login screen. does anyone how to fix this problem or another way to restore my mac? thx.

mac spec:
osx lion 10.7
2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
4GB 1067 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB
 
sleimac said:
i want my mac to have a fresh start again and i cannot start the mac lion restore ultility when i press the command-R key during mac start up. i have tried numerous times, however it always leads me to the login screen. does anyone how to fix this problem or another way to restore my mac? thx.

mac spec:
osx lion 10.7
2.4 GHz Intel Core i5
4GB 1067 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 330M 256 MB
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Try holding down the Option key (keep it held down) at a restart until you are given a choice of which partition to boot to. Choose the Recovery HD.

-Kevin
 
still nothing. i tried the opt key, opt-R key, control-R key, and cmd-R key, still leads me to the login screen
 
sleimac said:
still nothing. i tried the opt key, opt-R key, control-R key, and cmd-R key, still leads me to the login screen
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Once logged in....open Terminal and type:

diskutil list

Copy/paste the results here. Trying to see whether you have a Recovery HD partition or not.

Assuming you installed Lion over Snow Leopard?

-Kevin
 
i did install lion over snow leopard and here is the terminal reading:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *320.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 319.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
 
sleimac said:
i did install lion over snow leopard and here is the terminal reading:
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *320.1 GB disk0
1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 319.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
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Well....the Recovery HD is there.

So when you reboot.....the second the screen goes black....do you press and hold the option key? And keep it held until a screen pops up with boot choices?

Beyond that....sorry, I don't have any other ideas. Hopefully someone can chime in.

-Kevin
 
no i press down the keys when the apple logo first appears during the start up sequence
 
wow, that was very dumb of me. thanks a lot for your patience and help
 
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