Moo Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Our school laptops have firmware on them that blocks a lot of stuff. Even reinstalling OSX doesn't work. Are there any _software_ reformatters for mac that could do this? If it was a windows I oculd use partition magic, but it doesnt seem to be for mac. Any help? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nico Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 You could try to use a knoppix live cd if it's possible. If you can, use 'cfdisk' to make a new partition. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jool Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 First of all read the agreement you signed carefully. You don't want to go to federal pound you in the ass prison for gaining unlawful access to computer resources now do you? After you've made sure you're legal or comfortable with the possible alternative we can move on. I'm don't know if you mean actual firmware or the operating system when you say firmware. I guess you mean the OS and I really think a proper reinstall should wipe everything, with proper I mean telling it to remove the partition and create a new one and not just installing over an old one. If you really really need a partitioning tool I would recommend GParted, don't know if it runs on every mac yet but it's worth a try if you don't want to bother with the horrible command line tools. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
golfing22 Posted October 26, 2006 Share Posted October 26, 2006 Maybe there is a filter on the Internet that he is trying to use, that would explain why he can't just reinstall OSX. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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