Saturday, August 14, 2010

How to Reinstall a Macbook Air

The Samsung 80GB 1.8" HD just went wrong. And the Air is getting slower and slower. She cannot take it anymore. It bothers. (especially a Friday night when you were trying to take a pre-sleep =P )

Here I take it over. First off, I checked the permission and repair some of them. It wasn't enough. After checked the disk, our nightmare came at the mid of the midnight Friday the 13th.
"It cant be repaired. Please insert the Mac OSX Installation Disc and restart your Macbook Air."
I know there's a remote disc function on OSX. What I did not realize was I can not directly connect to the remote disc after the "restart". Even I geekly pressed Option while startup, all I saw was the original harddrive rather than a remote installation disc.

Google, my dearest buddy tells me that he just found a post from Maciverse that I will need a Remote Install to finish the job. So I went to Apps, Utilities, Remote Install Mac OS X and click continue and continue. If you've done all the things right. You will be able to see the following screen.



The worst case scenario would be "your disk is damaged and cannot be repaired. please contact the Genius Bar near you" 

Well... Maybe it's time to get an upgrade!

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