{"id":294,"date":"2014-03-29T05:43:58","date_gmt":"2014-03-29T05:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?page_id=294"},"modified":"2015-08-01T05:00:43","modified_gmt":"2015-08-01T05:00:43","slug":"mac-startup-key-combinations","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/?page_id=294","title":{"rendered":"Mac Startup key combinations"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6>How to choose the startup volume<\/h6>\n<p>Follow these steps:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Turn on, or restart, your Mac.<\/li>\n<li>Immediately press and hold the Option key. After a few seconds, the Startup Manager should appear. The Startup Manager scans for available volumes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Press C during startup<br \/>\nStart up from a bootable <strong>C<\/strong>D, DVD, or USB thumb drive (such as OS X install media).<\/p>\n<p>Press D during startup<br \/>\nStart up in <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT1509\">Apple Hardware Test<\/a> (AHT).<\/p>\n<p>Press Option-Command-P-R until you hear startup sound a second time.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT1379\">Reset NVRAM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Press Option during startup<br \/>\nStart up in <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT1310\">Startup Manager<\/a>, where you can select an OS X volume or network volume to start from.<\/p>\n<p>Press Eject, F12, or hold the mouse or trackpad button<br \/>\nEjects any removable media, such as an optical disc.<\/p>\n<p>Press N during startup<br \/>\nAttempt to start up from a compatible network server (<strong>N<\/strong>etBoot).<\/p>\n<p>Press T during startup<br \/>\nStart up in <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT1661\"><strong>T<\/strong>arget Disk Mode<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Press Shift during startup<br \/>\nStart up in <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT1564\">Safe Boot<\/a> mode and temporarily disable login items.<\/p>\n<p>Press Command-V during startup<br \/>\nStart up in <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT1492\"><strong>V<\/strong>erbose<\/a> mode.<\/p>\n<p>Press Command-S during startup<br \/>\nStart up in <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT1492\"><strong>S<\/strong>ingle-User<\/a> mode.<\/p>\n<p>Press Option-N during startup<br \/>\nStart from a <strong>N<\/strong>etBoot server using the default boot image.<\/p>\n<p>Press Command-R during startup<\/p>\n<p>Start from the OS X <a href=\"http:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/HT4718\"><strong>R<\/strong>ecovery System<\/a><sup>1<\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to choose the startup volume Follow these steps: Turn on, or restart, your Mac. Immediately press and hold the Option key. After a few seconds, the Startup Manager should appear. The Startup Manager scans for available volumes. Press C during startup Start up from a bootable CD, DVD, or USB thumb drive (such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-294","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":538,"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/294\/revisions\/538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.itcrumbs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}