Showing posts with label repair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label repair. Show all posts
Monday, October 19, 2015
How to Load a Mini DVD Into a MacBook Pro
Shop for external mini-DVD drives through online computer-component retailers like New Egg or Tiger Direct, and compare their prices with those of office-supply and computer-repair shops like OfficeMax and Staples.
Purchase a mini-DVD drive that uses either a USB or Firewire connector cable, as the MacBook Pro has two of each of these types of slots on its side.
Connect the external mini-DVD drive to your MacBook Pro and install any extra software that came with it. Insert the mini-DVD into the external drive, then access the files on the mini-DVD as you normally would.
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015
How to Maintain a Mac (6 Steps)
Run maintenance scripts to maintain your Mac. These are built into your OS and will run automatically if you leave your system on all the time. If you shut your system down every day, remember to run the appropriate Mac maintenance scripts on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
Check your hard drive periodically. This can be done from your Disk Utility on your hard drive, or you can boot up from your install CD and run the Disk Utility from there. You will need it anyway should the utility need to repair your hard drive.
Back up your files. You can back up as often as you feel you need to--some people back up daily. In the event of a hard drive crash, you will have a separate copy of all your files. Most users do this with an external hard drive.
Repair permissions to maintain your computer. You really only need to do this after you install any new software or before you clone your hard drive. The Mac was designed to be low maintenance.
Reinstall when necessary. If you are running OS X 10.2 or higher, use the feature called 'Archive and Install.' It will move your system files into a 'Previous System' folder and reinstall your OS. Do this only when you have tried other measures and only after you back up any files you want to keep.
Create a backup of your hard drive on an external Firewire drive.
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