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I want to repurpose some old laptops and build some Raspberry pi3 projects. Each project may require better performance while others less. The goal being to create a lab for testing, and learning as well as dedicated units for specific tasks, including some fun stuff. So I thought I would take...

McHenryB: I think he's using a mac though he said: " I have installed macosx, or am at least trying too, only to find I am unable to move the mouse from within the vmware workstation window." This leads me to believe he's on a Mac.

You should definitely repair the disk first. I would use DiskWarrior.

It could be compromised and for most of us discussing pirated software is a 'no go'. We don't support that since it's so inexpensive to buy the retail CD and even if it weren't inexpensive people should pay for software. So if your questions have been answered can you mark it as solved and...

Great. Glad to hear it worked out. So do you want to close this issue to clear out the message queue?

Is snitty even a word? There's a retail version of Mac OS X. Check with Frys or Apple. Blinking folder means no blessed system can be found or hard drive failure. Get another Mac (let's call this Mac 2) and boot the non-working mac (Mac 1) by holding the "T" key to put it in Firewire mode. Then...

Download Soundflower and route your audio accordingly. Or... Buy a mixer. They are cheap now.

Did you install the VMware Tools? https://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/new_guest_tools_ws.html

Have you tried Google Hangouts?

That's an I/O error code. Launch Disk Utility and repair the external drive. How is the external drive formatted? What are you transferring and how are you transferring? Why are you checking the box to ignore permissions on the drive?

Test it and see. You can't boot from a drive in the optical bay (according to some sources), however I moved my boot drive to the optical bay and installed an SSD in the drive bay. I don't boot from the spinning drive but I use it as a full-time connected TimeMachine drive. Works very well. My...

What could be the issue? The firewire ports are fried, the firewire cable could be bad or the firewire port on your Mac is toast. Hold the option key and click on the apple menu and select "System Information" look under the USB section when plugged in via USB then switch the cable and look...