MacBook Pro - The world’s greenest lineup of notebooks. Forgot Mac Password? How to Reset Your Mac Password (with or without CD) - OS X Daily So you forgot your Mac password… uh oh. Don’t worry, it happens and you aren’t out of luck. You’ll need to reset the forgotten password and there’s several ways to do this, we’ll focus on the three best methods; the first is dirt simple and will utilize the Apple ID (yes, the same on you use for iTunes and App Store purchases), the second method is a hack of sorts and does not require a Mac OS X recovery drive or CD and is guaranteed to be effective, and the third trick is fairly simple but it requires either a Mac OS X DVD, boot disk, or Recovery mode partition to use. Resetting Lost Mac Passwords with Apple ID This is the best approach for Mac users running new versions of OS X (Yosemite, Mavericks, Mountain Lion, and Lion) because it’s extremely fast and simple. That was easy, right? Reset Mac Password – without a CD or Boot Drive Stage 1) Boot into Single User Mode and remove a setup file fsck -fy Next, you must mount the root drive as writeable so that changes will save: mount -uw /
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Install Mac OS X Snow Leopard on a PC using VMware Many computer shoppers choose to buy a Mac not only to use OS X, but Windows as well. That is one strong advantage that Macs have in the Mac vs PC war. Apple computers are capable of running Windows, either through Bootcamp or virtual machines. So, why aren’t Windows PC’s capable of running OS X? Well, Windows PC’s are capable of running OS X. *In order for this to work, your computer must have a processor that supports virtualization. But, don’t expect to not get errors if you are using an older Pentium 4 machine. Because we will be installing OS X on top of Windows through a virtual machine, the first step is to get some virtual machine software. If you do not feel like purchasing Workstation 7 at this time, you can get a limited trial here. Upon download, go ahead and install Workstation 7 onto your computer. One thing to note, when it asks your if you want to do a custom install or a typical install, choose typical install. Time to start installing Snow Leopard. Select File > Open.
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