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#HOW TO RESET PASSWORD ON MACBOOK PRO SNOW LEOPARD MAC OS#
#HOW TO RESET PASSWORD ON MACBOOK PRO SNOW LEOPARD PDF#
#HOW TO RESET PASSWORD ON MACBOOK PRO SNOW LEOPARD INSTALL#
#HOW TO RESET PASSWORD ON MACBOOK PRO SNOW LEOPARD MAC#

You can check progress in the FileVault section of Security & Privacy preferences.

#HOW TO RESET PASSWORD ON MACBOOK PRO SNOW LEOPARD MAC#

Encryption happens in the background as you use your Mac, and only while your Mac is awake and plugged in to AC power.Keep the letters and numbers of the key somewhere safe-other than on your encrypted startup disk.

When you don’t want to use iCloud FileVault recovery, you can create a local recovery key.

Choose answers that you’re sure to remember.

If you’re using OS X Mavericks, you can choose to store a FileVault recovery key with Apple by providing the questions and answers to three security questions.

When you’re using OS X Yosemite or later, you can choose to use your iCloud account to unlock your disk and reset your password.

Whenever you forget your password you can easily choose how you want to be able to unlock your disk and then reset your password Moreover, user accounts that you add after turning on FileVault are enabled automatically. Consider that, for each user, click the Enable User button and enter the user’s password. In case any other users have accounts on your Mac, maybe you see a message that each user must type in their password before they will be able to unlock the disk.

Click , then enter an administrator name and password.

Select Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Security & Privacy.

Hope this has enlightened you and given you a path of direction.You should consider that FileVault full-disk encryption (FileVault 2) uses XTS-AES-128 encryption with a 256-bit key in order to stop unauthorized access to the information on your startup disk.įileVault 2 is accessible in OS X Lion or later. When FileVault is turned on, your Mac always needs that you log in with your account password. Follow these steps as bellow:

#HOW TO RESET PASSWORD ON MACBOOK PRO SNOW LEOPARD INSTALL#

Your working computer with Snow Leopard disc would be the master and the other computer with new hard drive would be where you want to install the OS.

If this don't work, then remove the RAM chip again and try install without the RAM chip or insert a different RAM chip with larger memory.Īlternatively, you can use another working computer and hook the two up via firewire and install using target disk mode. Sometimes this computer acts stupid when trying to install software, so remove the RAM chip and re-insert firmly and try again. This takes a while depending on hard drive size, so go read you a book or go grocery shopping. Then select the erase button to format the new hard drive. Then select security options and zero out data.

#HOW TO RESET PASSWORD ON MACBOOK PRO SNOW LEOPARD MAC OS#

Power on and insert your Snow Leopard disc, restart and press option key, select the Snow Leopard disc and press enter, go into disk utilities and format the new hard drive as Mac OS Extended Journaled, and name it Macintosh HD or whatever you want. You must always format a new hard drive for Mac.

#HOW TO RESET PASSWORD ON MACBOOK PRO SNOW LEOPARD PDF#

i was careful, on reassembly, but only thought i have is could i have disconnected the optical drive accidentally, do not believe so, may reopen and check, but thought i would see if i am "missing something" you may be aware of.?Īppreciate the advice, used your PDF instructions from the website, they are great, made it simple to complete process. I did not format the seagate drive, it is as removed from box, optical drive was installing from install cd fine earlier today. įired up hitting options key, accepts my firmware password,but when i click with mouse after entering firmware password all i get is grey screen with mouse cursor(able to move cursor), but it does not display the iMac install disk that is inserted in superdrive and just stops, remains in this state. Issues with original hdd,tried to wipe&reload, still showed more space used than size of drive! and then it locked me out of root,system,library, and app folders entirely, stating i did not have privilege to see files,ĭecided to replace hard drive,wiped the original internal drive-thought i mite use for an external time machine drive in external enclosure,i upgraded from seagate 1TB to Seagate 2TB internal hdd, also added additional RAM -2 more 4GB strips(total 16GB-4x4GB).