Your model did not come with restore DVDs. What you want to do is this:
I had that Clean Drive notice pop up this morning and thought it was weird malware, thanks for the heads up that it came w/ Parallels - just installed for the first time last week. I couldn't find the developer site, but page 30 of the Parallels User Guide gives more info (although not a ton) about the types of files Clean Drive deletes: http. Double-click This PC. It’s the computer icon on your desktop. If you don’t see this icon, press ⊞ Win+E to open the File Explorer, then double-click This PC in the left sidebar. Note: This Mac DVD drive not working solution is only available on Mac OS X Lion. If you are a Snow Leopard and below user, please look for other ways. Q: My CD/DVD Drive on my iMac keeps ejecting every CD/DVD when I put a CD/DVD in the drive. It sounds like it tries to read the disc, buy fails finally.
Install Lion Through Yosemiteon a New HDD/SDD
- Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the Command-Option-R keys until a globe appears. Wait patiently - 5-15 minutes - until the Utility Menu appears.
- Select Disk Utility from the Utility Menu and click on the Continue button.
- After Disk Utility loads select the drive (usually, this is the out-dented entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the side list. Click on the Erase tab in Disk Utility’s main window. A drop-down panel will appear.
- Set the partition scheme to GUID then click. Set the Format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the OK button and wait for the process to finish. Quit Disk Utility and return to the Utility Menu.
- Select Install OS X from the Utility Menu and click on the Continue button.
This should restore the version of OS X that came with the computer pre-installed. From here you can download and install Sierra: How to get macOS Sierra - Apple Support.
FWIW never allow free space on the drive drop below about 20% of the drive's capacity. If you get down to that point then you will need to free up space:
How to Free Up Space on The Hard Drive
- You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
- Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
- Also, see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
- Free up storage space on your Mac.
- See Where did my Disk Space go?.
- Be sure to Empty the Trash to recover the space.
- Replace the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
- Use OmniDiskSweeper or GrandPerspective to search your drive for large files and where they are located.
Free Cd Drive Cleaner
Aug 17, 2017 10:39 PM