Macbook Osx Leopard Firmware 3.1 1gig RAM
Went there Rob.
On the first tries it seemed to me to be permissions but was not
Folder with question mark was on screen. -> could not find system
file. Tried Disk utility did find disk but could not mount it to
reinstall or anything else.
Went for the reformat.
Cannot see hard drive in that machine switched it to another same:
presume corruption at root on the drive???? first time I have seen this.
Now deciding to wipe drive clean and reinstall from firmware up
tom
On 21/08/2008, at 11:22 PM, Robert Howells wrote:
On 21/08/2008, at 9:22 PM, tom samson wrote:
I have a Macbook it did have leopard on then on restart a question
mark.
tried to reinstall with disk utility to zero drive -after many
attempts. Cannot get to load because a nice little box comes up
saying OSX cannot be loaded on this machine.
Started with alt down lock came up reinsert password for
Openfirmware no luck run techtool then diskwarrior then drive
genius all perfect still cannot load system on
Can I reinstate everything from my passwords up down sideways to
have a chance of loading system on. HELP
tom samson
Not even the system discs work as of now
Tom ,
After reading your story I am not sure what you actually have done !
You do not say what your system version is , or what version the
system disks are !
If I start at your beginning .... you had a question mark instead
of the System loading.
For that situation I would have inserted the system disk and after
it had loaded
look for Disk utilities under a drop down menu ...WITHOUT ...
running the installer .
Then run Repair permissions :
Normally that should have been enough to get you back up running.
Assuming you have not messed things up by running Techtool ,
and have not tried to reformat your hard drive ,
running Repair permissions may still be all that is needed to get
it working ,
but
your story tends to say you may have done something else .
As to actually reinstalling , you cannot reinstal when there is an
existing later version system on the Hard drive
unless you select the option Archive and Instal .
Also, if you have done a firmware upgrade , your original system
disks just possibly may not instal at all .
It just depends .
Which model Macbook is it
Bob
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