After Leopard install Mac OSX Setup Assistant is in a constant loop
I have a friend who I persuaded to switch to mac a few years ago and he recently installed Leopard without much success on his second mac (it was fine on his macbook pro 2.13ghz), a Power PC G5 1.8ghz - 1.25 gb ram. When I had a look at it it appears to be stuck in Mac OSX Setup Assistant mode - i.e. when you put the info in and the Screen says "enjoy your computer" or whatever it just comes back to the same Setup page. (What's weird is can't get to the end unless it has an internet signal - wireless at his place and ethernet at mine)
I'm guessing something went wrong during installation as when I restart with the Leopard disc in and hold "c" Leopard install launches but only shows drivers and some languages need to be installed. I copied all important files via target mode and it shows that the Computer is "10.5". I'm guessing the full installation was interrupted. There doesn't appear to be a way to do a complete re-install. I ran Tech-Tool and Disk Warrior to rebuild and verify permissions etc. No joy!
I'd like to do a full re-install of Leopard but I can't. As I have all important info backed up I guess I might have to completely wipe the disc and install Leopard on the blank disc - should this be okay as I've never done that before?
Any other suggestions appreciated.
If I press go back ...it just goes back to the Welcome screen.
I should mention that if I try and select anything that needs to be opened in a window from the Apple menu nothing opens up. For example if I choose System Preferences it will show System Preferences in the top menu but no window will open.
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Hello guys,
I've bought about 3 weeks ago an iPhone 3G. Since i have my iPhone i like to produce software for the iPhone with the developers kit from apple. But i have one problem. I have an Acer Aspire notebook with:
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i am beside myself again...(i just visited my local Genius bar this afternoon). Any help would be most appreciated! :o)
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blue skies,
ps. please feel free to email me at [email protected] if you think that would be better! :o)Hi,
...after getting back from school, my MacBook was STILL in the process of verifying and "supposedly" repairing... since i was gone for over 10 hours, i finally assumed the drive was either defective or just incompatible, and quit disk utility.
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enter the apple id that was for the PREVIOUS owner. Which I had no clue (it also wanted the password.) So now I am stuck.
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Thankyou, God Blessralph40,
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If any of the apps on your MacBook Pro had been purchased through the previous owner’s Apple ID, then note that you’ll need to purchase them yourself through your own Apple ID, since apps downloaded through the Mac App Store (including, but not limited to, Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks) are non-transferable. Any apps that were purchased through the Mac App Store using your own Apple ID will be redownloadable gratis by holding down an Option key when you select the Purchased tab.
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