Can't boot Lion on my new WD7500BPVT HDD

Hello everybody,
I've recently purchased a new Western Digital WD7500BPVT HDD for my MacBook Pro 15" Mid 2009 with 8GB RAM to do a clean install of Lion.
I've created a bootable USB drive with Lion and it installs perfectly in around 15 minutes.
But the problem comes after the restart, at the first boot time, the apple logo screen shows the loading circle during hours and it never boots.
I've tested ir with the verbose mode and it keeps frozen after "Kernel is LP64" message.
I've tried to do the same clean installation with another old disk drive HITACHI 120GB and it works fine.
Probably the problem is in the HDD but every test says that it's OK and WD doesn't report any incopatibility.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks!

Of course it is possible. Just run down to the local PC store, buy a Snow leopard install disc for around 35 bucks, stick it in the drive, boot from the disc, open the disc utility, erase the disc and install Snow Leopard. Should only take an afternoon including going to the shop. Then, all your problems will go away.
You are not alone in going back to Snow Leopard. Too many users are follwing that route.

Similar Messages

  • Can't boot windows after creating new MS-DOS (FAT) partition

    I created a new MS-DOS (FAT) partition on Yosemite, and now I am unable to access my windows bootcamp partition.
    - I can attempt to boot into windows from Yosemite however after a long while, I am prompted with "no bootable device".
    - The option to boot windows from the startup manager is no longer visible.

    It still shows the bootcamp partition with windows.
    EDIT: Creating the new FAT partition did seem to create another partition which is visible when looking at the partition layout; the other partition is 1.04gb; format "Free Space". Apparently that's from bootcamp - hadn't noticed before.
    I took some screens to show what I mean ("WINDOWS EXT" is the new partition I created):
    - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23413810/Apple/new%20fat.png
    - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23413810/Apple/new%20fat%20details.png
    - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23413810/Apple/created%20alongside%20fat.png
    - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23413810/Apple/windows%20bootcamp.png
    - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/23413810/Apple/windows%20bootcamp%20details. png

  • How can I make lion learn a new word?

    I have an unusual name (well, they are my initials but everyone knows me by them). It is "bvz".
    OSX Lion knows this word  -->  Biz
    Every single $^*@#ing time I type in "bvz", Lion helpfully changes it to "biz".  I must type "bvz" a thousand  times a day into the computer, and a thousand #$%$@ing times it dutifully changes it to "biz".  This OS is like an idiot savant without any savant capabilities.
    My android phone learned my name after a single use.
    My goddam cat knows my name.
    How the **** do I get my $2000 iMac with a billion gigaherz of genius and trillions of memory bits to.  Learn. Three. Letters?
    Please tell me it isn't as complicated as this:
    http://applesliced.com/ask/how-do-i-edit-or-remove-words-from-the-user-dictionar y-in-os-x-lion

    Hi Cattus,  I've already done that but it doesn't seem to work in the main body of apple mail although it does work in the subject of a mail...very strange.  Could this be linked to complaints from my colleagues that my mail is arriving in different font sizes? help please???  Thank you, Simon.

  • Can I boot up a Tiger Disk IMage HDD using my Macbook Pro (with Leopard)

    Before my Ibook G4 crashed (tiger 10.4) I made a disk image using super duper. I purchased a Macbook Pro (leopard) and when I tried booting the disk Image I had made using superduper on a smart disk firewire drive, it would not recognize it.
    I held the option key when booting but only the Mac drive on the Macbook pro showed up. Is that a bug/flaw with leopard that you can't even boot an external HD disk image made using Tiger?
    I know the disk image is good because it boots on my G5 which has tiger installed.
    Thanks for a reply..
    Skip

    Allan Eckert and BCC99,
    Thanks for the responses. I REALLY appreciate it becuase I usually spend a lot of time spinning my wheels trying to make something work that doesn't.
    The reason I wanted to boot it was that my old IBOOK crashed and I wanted to boot up the old "clone" (not disk image - my poor choice of words) so that I could view some of my older emails that contained information that I wanted to view. I know I could do it on my G5 but I wasn't home and wanted to try my new Macbook.....
    Thanks again...
    Skip

  • Can Time Machine restore to a new internal HDD?

    hi all, i've got a 1tb external drive that's exclusively used by Time Machine. the 1tb drive is connected to my 500gb mac mini. i've been running time machine for 6 months now daily, i just wanted to know if it was backing up everything on my 500gb drive or not. how can i check that it's working properly?
    also, does anyone know how i'd go about restoring my mac mini in case i had to replace the 500gb hdd? can time machine restore everything if i needed it to? if i bought a new HDD tomorrow for example, how could i get my system running back to where it was running today with all of the current settings and files etc?  is there any way for me to check that Time Machine will actually restore OS X, all my videos, music and my work should the HDD actually die?
    is there an apple link i can read?
    thanks for any help.

    To answer your question about replacing a hard drive and recovering what was on your old one ...
    Yes, Time Machine was designed for that. You may have one of two scenarios:
    (1) Your hard drive is replaced by the Apple Store or another Apple repair shop, in which case they usually restore it with the operating system you had before and configure it so it has a new system with no users set up; the first time it starts up it runs Setup Assistant. When Setup Assistant runs, you select the option to restore from a Time Machine backup. It will then automatically restore your entire hard drive to the newly installed one. Everything will be just as it was with the old drive. Exceptions: you MAY have to enter user keys for software like MS-Office and Adobe Photoshop. and you MAY have to reinstall your printers and scanners.
    (2) If the hard drive is replaced but no operating system or anything is put on it, you need to boot from your Install-OS-DVD and install a new operating system on the new drive. Then, on the first reboot, Setup Assistant runs and you can follow the instructions from (1) above.
    A good informational site about Time Machine is here: http://pondini.org/TM/Home.html
    How do you know that your Time Machine backup is a good one? You can peruse through all the backups by running Time Machine and manually inspect that the files in those key folders (photos, music etc.) are all there and have the right sizes. You can "test recover" selected folders to a scratch location just to check that it works. I suggest you obtain another external drive and use it to make a "clone" of your internal drive using SuperDuper or Carbon Copy Cloner. This is like a second backup, a failsafe in case, say, your Time Machine drive were to fail. This is not unheard of, since a power failure could cause both your internal drive and Time Machine drives to crash at the same time. The "clone" should be unplugged and stored separately to avoid this issue. You can update the clone, say once a week or once a month.

  • Can't install Lion on MacBook 2,4GHz HDD

    A friend of me has a problem with his MacBook: When he want's to install lion it says the volume he selected can't be used for installation of Lion.
    Has somebody an idea what he can do to fix this problem out? That would be very helpful
    (I'm sory for my bad english that's because I'm from Germany)

    go to www.apple.com/support/no-recovery. I have a boot camp partition.  I'm looking all over the internet and have found people are having problems installing Lion with boot camp partitioned. I don't want to earase my entire hard drive just to install it on my macbook. I have an iMac which installed and had no boot camp.

  • Is there any dependency between osx version and boot environment???? I can not boot my bootabe software on my macbook pro with osx 10.8!!!!

    even i can not boot lion 10.7.4 bootable dvd!!!!!
    what can i do??? the boot device will apear in boot menu but they do not boot

    Then, I imagine there's a problem with the DVD.
    http://www.macworld.com/article/1161069/make_a_bootable_lion_installer.html
    It would run a lot faster on another drive or pocket drive.

  • Can I load Lion from preloaded MacBook Air onto my MacBook?

    Can I install Lion from preloaded new MacBook Air onto my MacBook after I install Snow Leopard?

    That would be against the Software Licence Agreement. It may not work in as much as the Lion install on the MBA is machine specific. Pay the $29.

  • Can't boot from cd or dvd

    i have a imac with isight 20 inch, when startup i get a grey screen with a folder that blinks with a question mark and the two faces symbol, when i leave it like this for a minut, fan starts blowing at full speed.
    i run leopard with all the updates untill januari 7 2009
    I have a iomega timemachine disk from this imac
    i can not boot from a cd that came with this imac neither from the leopard dvd
    how can i find out what is wrong? why can i not boot from cd (all threads i read say you should do this but it just won't go) i noticed my dvd drive often rejected cd's lately but after several trys i would eventually....
    can i boot from a timemachine set up hdd from this broken imac to find out what hardware failed ?

    If your hard drive fails, Time Machine cannot boot your computer. A bootable clone, which is an exact copy of your system and its contents, can be used to boot your machine, or, if you install a new drive, to reverse clone (or make the new drive exactly like to old one).
    Time Machine can restore your system to the state it was in on any given day, but you must have a working hard drive with the OS installed on it. I use both TM and a clone that I automatically make with SuperDuper!, so that if I want to restore a file, I can use TM, if I want to exactly duplicate my HDD, I use my SD! clone and am up and running with an exact copy of my machine before the hard drive died.
    You will be able to restore from TM once you have initialized the new drive and put an OS on it.

  • Putting Mt Lion on a new HD

    Getting a new HD for my MBP. 
    Seems like most people clone the current drive then swap.
    I would kind of like to start fresh and not bring any extra stuff on to the new drive.
    I don't have a bunch of software.  I would just need to export my iphoto and itunes libraries.  Nothing else would be a big deal.
    Is it possible to put the new drive in an external enclosure, format it, and then put Mt Lion on it?  I'd have to purchase Mt Lion.
    Any suggestions would be appreciated.
    Thanks
    TL

    Hello tsl90,
    Thank you for providing the details regarding installing Mountain Lion on a new hard drive for your MacBook Pro.  You can install Mountain Lion on your new hard drive while using it as an external drive.
    I recommend following the steps in the section titled "Installing OS X on an external storage device" in this article:
    OS X: About OS X Recovery
    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
    Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
    Best,
    Sheila M.

  • Why Isight is missing?, how to fix boot camp on 2008 iMAC using windows 8.1? can't redownload Lion.

    Basically I'm troubleshooting, I have been having problems with my webcam ever since I installed a new hard drive, it seem's to be turned on due to the light above so I'm sure what else to do about it because both Windows/Mac OS aren't picking it up.
    At first I thought there be some 'drivers' from the boot camp files that I could manually install, like I did with the other devices but that didn't seem to work for the camera. Also I hear Windows would be fine using either Boot Camp 4,5 to download the appropriate files but each time I try anything I get something about 'unsupported hardware' because before I could install Boot Camp 3 fine but before I was running under 32bit Windows because I hadn't realised at the time that the Mac was using 64bit so it seems like it has something to do with the conversion from 32 to 64 bit but that wouldn't make much sense the Mac OS as far as I'm aware was always 64bit.
    And I noticed if I try to be download via the Mac side for the boot camp files then I get 'The Windows support software is not available' but to be fair I have never had any luck in the past with getting those files off the mac side ever.
    So in short 2 problems Webcam, Boot Camp need to work but are currently having issues.
    Also I can't redownload 'Lion' since it's been saying 'item not available', which is rather frustrating since I originally paid for it, I'm forced to stick to Snow Leopard, I'm baffled to why I can't redownload from my history like I do with Xbox or Steam.

    Couldn't edit the question so thought add that the Imac camera light is turned on while using Windows, the Mac OS so it should be connected but it isn't.

  • How can I get Lion to recognize my boot camp partition.

    Yesterday morning I found my mac suffered from a b-tree failure and was unable to access OS X 10.6. I ended up booting into my Boot camp partition of Windows XP and backed it up then reinstalled Snow leopard. Then I upgraded to Lion, saw it fail due to a partitioning issue, created a 2gb partition called Mac HD 2 (by shrinking mac hd), saw i could install but not full install. So I created another partition and installed Lion successfully. Got into Lion and shrunk my 2x 2GB partitions into one 4GB partition. My Windows XP hard drive boot camp partition was still on my desktop. I can access all the files but I can not boot into it. When I hold down the option key there is only Mac HD or Recovery partition.
    Is there any way to get the boot camp partition to work?
    I did notice that when I was looking through the settings I could choose which HD was the default boot option. Mac hd with 10.7 and a folder called Windows XP were both available.

    We also cannot get Robohelp to recognize our FrameMaker installation. 
    We are using Robohelp 9  and Framemaker 11.
    We are in the process of moving all of our Robohelp content to Framemaker, but our project team still needs CHM files for the next release or so.  So we figured we could move our content to Frame 11, then import the Frame content into Robohelp when we needed to generate the CHM files.
    The process works great when we use RH 10 and Frame 11, but we get the following error when we use RH 9:
    "This operation cannot be completed without FrameMaker.  Install FrameMaker and try again."
    I have uninstalled and reinstalled Frame 11 and RH 9, but am still getting the same error.  Buying a set of new Robohelp 10 licenses probably isn't an option.
    Any other suggestions?
    Thanks,
    Sue

  • Can I boot my new MacBook Pro running ML from SL on an external drive

    I have a new MBP with Mountain Lion.  I want to put Snow Leopard, I have the full install DVD, on an external drive.  Can I boot from that drive so I can run a few old applications that won't run in Mountain Lion?

    As per Mende1's suggestion: install your Snow Leopard (with Rosetta) into Parallels and run your PowerPC applications (which ones are they?):
                                  [click on image to enlarge]
    Full Snow Leopard installation instructions here

  • Can you dual boot lion with an older verion of Mac OS?

    Can you dual boot Lion Os with and Older version of Mac Os (Snow Leopard?) So one can rum Power PC apps until they are upgraded?

    You can dual boot if your machine originally came with an older OS version. No Mac can boot from an older version than the one it came with - notable exceptions are if the machine was built right around the time of the new OS release; in that case, it would depend on the machine and OS builds - it may or may not be possible.
    So the important question here is: did yours come with Lion preinstalled? The answer is most likely: No. Or Snow Leopard? The answer would be: Yes.

  • I can't boot any latest gen imacs off a mountain lion USB bootable drive

    So I have created a mountain lion USB boot drive because I work on a number of imacs, but for the latest generation it doesn't seem to work.
    I create it in the normal way, downloading the app through itunes then using http://liondiskmaker.com/ to create the usb boot drive.
    When I try to boot from it: http://i.imgur.com/IUDlv.jpg
    I get this icon on the screen: http://i.imgur.com/DNc8U.jpg
    The weird thing is that I have used this exact bootable usb stick to upgrade many, many older imacs to mountain lion. I don't want to have to redownload the entire 5gb or so every time I need to install mountain lion on a new imac. I've tried this with both the 21.5" and the 27" varieties and both have the same issue. What is causing this?
    I also need to boot from it directly rather then doing an in-OS upgrade in the odd times I'm working with an imac at a place that doesn't have a decent internet connection (6 gigs of downloading isn't available to everybody in Australia)
    Someone has mentioned that it may be due to new imacs not allowing older installation media, but I have downloaded the latest version as of 3 days ago and it does the same thing.

    It has nothing to do with Lion Disk Maker. That is only used to Create a Boot USB thumb drive, or DVD, of the Lion/Mt Lion install files. It does not add anything to either the DVD or thumb drive you create with it.
    The problem lies with the Special build Apple creates for every new Mac that comes out that has different hardware then the previously released models.
    Eventually they will come out with a new updated build, like 10.8.3, that will contain all the drivers for every Mac computer ML can be installed on, Older and the newest. Until that happens there is only one way to get a version that will boot on the newest systems. And that is to use either the Recovery HD or the Online Internet Recovery system ON one of those New Mac's. Those newer Mac's are the only one that can access the Special Build needed for the new systems.

Maybe you are looking for