Drag To Disk

Here's how you'll reinstall Lion without a disc

Firstly, Lion isn’t really there. The recovery partition only contains a very limited base system that lets you use Safari to get help online, use Disk Utility, or do perform re-install. If you opt to do a re-install, Lion warns you that your Mac’s serial number will be sent to Apple. If you click OK, Lion then attempts to connect to Apple and download all 4+ GB of Lion from Apple’s servers. Yes, you read that right.

This creates multiple problems. First, if you don’t have a very fast Internet connection available, you’re basically screwed. Second, this marks the first time Apple is doing device activations on Macs. Apple is now presumably tracking who has Lion on their Apple account, and denying you access if you haven’t paid for it on that account. Thirdly, if your hard drive actually fails, so will your recovery partition, leaving you stranded.

The good news is there is a workaround, and a fairly easy one at that. When you purchase Lion, it places an “Install Lion” icon in your dock. Just right click that icon and choose “Show in Finder.” From there, right click the icon and choose “Show Package Contents.” Inside the installation package you’ll find an “InstallESD.dmg” disk image. Just drag that disk image into the sidebar of Disk Utility, and insert a USB flash drive or hard drive. Then, partition the drive (one partition is fine, but you must partition to get access to the advanced options) using the GUID partition table. Finally, choose the “Restore” tab, dragging your “InstallESD.dmg” from the sidebar to the “Source” box, and the flash drive partition to the “Destination” box. Then click “Restore.” This will create a bootable Lion installer in about 10-15 minutes, which will contain all of Lion, not just that wimpy “Recovery” mode, from which you can perform a complete install. This lets you install Lion without even connecting to the Internet, or checking with Apple first, because the disk image was restored from a pre-downloaded copy of Lion already purchased and authorized on the Mac App Store. If you don’t have or want to use a flash drive or USB hard drive, this procedure also works with a blank DVD. Just skip the GUID partitioning bit and you’ll be good to go.

How do i get my pictures off of a dvd disc? - The Asker

About five years ago I had a friend of mine put all of the pictures I had on Wal-Mart discs onto a disc not knowing that it was a DVD disc. I now have over 1000 pictures on this disc and it plays as a slide show with no music.. I am wanting to know if there is anyway that I can get these pictures off of this disc because this is the only copy of these pictures that I have. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You didn’t indicate that you were playing the slide show on a computer,or through a stand-alone DVD player.

In either case, you can copy these pictures from the DVD to a computer hard drive, either your computer or a friend’s computer. After copying the pictures to a computer hard drive, they can be copied to CD’s (DVD’s) without the slide show application.

You can then (using a computer) do whatever you wish such as print or archive on any media you desire to use.

To copy these pictures from the DVD (assuming you have a DVD drive and computer), stop the slide show when playing on the computer, if your drive has autorun. Click the drive icon on the MY COMPUTER screen. This will display all the pictures on the DVD. Click EDIT on the menu bar and select SELECT ALL. Next (still in the EDIT mode) click COPY. After the pictures are copied (this may take several minutes), save them to any folder you choose. You may have to create a new folder.

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