By accident I inserted the Installation disk for the Mac OS X software even though it is already installed into my laptop. I tried ejecting the disk but the eject button would not do anything. I also attempted to hold down the track button while restarting my computer which did eject the disk but resulted in a bunch of small symbols flashing in the middle of my screen so I inserted the disk again. I really don't want to risk losing any of my files by re-installing the Mac OS software so I don't know how to quit the installation process.
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My Mac OS X Installer disk wont eject
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Just to clarify, are you in the installation program or are you simply in regular OS X?
Either way, just having the disc in the drive won't automatically run the installer. (as long as you haven't input your admin password you're nowhere close to overwriting your current install).
Either way, just having the disc in the drive won't automatically run the installer. (as long as you haven't input your admin password you're nowhere close to overwriting your current install).
If you search the forums, you may find what you're looking for, such as this thread or one of these.
No. Just hold Command-Option-P-R down while you reboot, until you hear the 2nd chime. You won't lose any data.
As the laptop restarted and started to reboot I held down the keys to reset the PRAM but the laptop continued to go right to the installation process again. Where I was greeted with the Screen that says Mac OS X and then lists many languages.
Well, you COULD restart it, but if you leave it off, you'll probably have fewer problems with it!
I ended up just installing the program over again which pretty much refreshed my computer except that I was able to recover all of my work. However, I have run into another problem. While I was organizing my work into folders or while I was updating my laptop my garageband files were deleted. I don't know how or why this happened but they are not in the trash and I would like to know if there is any way to get them back. Thanks for all the help.
What are you talking about??
Hi. There is no reaason to do a PRAM just to get out of the installation. From the choose language screen, click to go to next screen. It's not obvious, but there are menus on the upper left of your screen. Under Mac OSX Installer, just quit out. Then restart to get back to your desktop, as it was before.
That's it!
Hi. There is no reaason to do a PRAM just to get out of the installation. From the choose language screen, click to go to next screen. It's not obvious, but there are menus on the upper left of your screen. Under Mac OSX Installer, just quit out. Then restart to get back to your desktop, as it was before.
That's it!