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I have waited for 2 hours, and nothing happened. The computer just stays at the grey screen with the Apple logo. So starting the computer while holding down the C key it sounds like the computer tries to boot from the DVD drive, but after a while it stops spinning. None of the DVD's are the one that came with the computer originally since I apparently lost them (which have never happened before.), but similar discs from other MacBook Pro's (from around the same time).
#Mac os x install disc instructions pro#
I have tries two different Snow Leopard DVD's + a MacBook Pro installer disc (and I have tested the DVD's on another computer as well, the DVD's are fine). It's a MacBook Pro from June 2006 (pre-thunderbolt). If the install stops with an error, be sure to note that error, with the exact text that you see, and any icon (including icon color) in that error message.
#Mac os x install disc instructions update#
If that completes OK, run Software Update until your Mac is fully updated. Continue with the Install.īecause of your other symptoms, the reinstall could take an hour or more. If, in fact, you have upgraded to Snow Leopard, you can do the same reinstall - it automatically reinstalls by default with a similar result. Be sure to check the sub-option for saving your files and settings.
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Then, click the Options button, and choose the option to Archive & Install. You said it's running the original Leopard (OS X 10.5.x), so choose your hard drive. If it takes 20-30 minutes to get to the installer screens, that's OK, this time. I still suspect that your hard drive has problems, but another good step, I think:īoot to your restore DVD - yes, while holding the C. You can verify what your hard drive is now, by booting to the OS X restore DVD, and opening Disk Utility - check the info area at the bottom of the Disk Utility window. Is your hard drive still partitioned as GUID, and MacOS Extended, or have you (by mistake) "repaired" the boot blocks with the Window disk that you have? There just won't be enough space.ĭo you have more than one partition, with any other operating system installed now? And, if it's that full, you won't be able to reinstall OS X.
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Is it possible that your hard drive is close to completely full? A nearly full hard drive WILL cause some of the symptoms that you report.
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Since other CD's are booting up perfectly fine, I was thinking of installing Ubuntu Linux and maybe then trying to reinstall Mac OSX using the original CD?Īny help? Please!!!!!!!!!!!! and thank you in advance. It freezes up and I have to wait like 10 to 20 minutes to take out the CD because it won't come out.īefore I take it to Apple (#!££$"£# piece of crap) I would like to see if there's anything else I can do? I then tried booting from the install disc and it just won't boot. I then tried booting up (holding C) from a Windows Live CD, and it booted up perfectly fine, did a disk check, all was stated as working. I used the applications CD where you have to hold D, this booted up, I checked the system and everything was completely fine. I tried booting in safe mode, it takes ages to boot up and when it does, it freezes on the login screen. I tried running the install disc that originally came with the iMac but it does not want to boot. Rebooted the mac, and the same thing happens all over again. While it unfroze, I managed to use a tool called Yasu to clean it up, I also checked the hard drive (1TB one) and everything was said to be in normal conditon. the problem is that it keeps freezing every now and then. After like 10/20 +- minutes it unfreezes and the computer is usable. When the power button is pressed once, the screen turns off, when the power button is pressed again, screen comes back on with everything already loaded, you can see the dock, and startup programs but everything is completely frozen, I can move the mouse but apart from that it's all dead (even the keyboard). After a while the background shows up but nothing on screen and it sits there frozen. When it is powered on it stays on the apple screen for like 10+/- minutes. It is now completely unworkable, it originally has the Mac OSX Leopard system and I cannot at all use it. It was working perfectly fine up until January 2011 where it started lagging, it became very slow and eventually it kept freezing. Somewhere in 2009/2010, I can't really remember now I bought the 21inch iMac.
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