Failed restore

OK. So here's the deal. I have a 13" MBP (running Lion that came installed)that i use for schoolwork. So when the computer got cluttered i decided to install windows too (on a partion, so i had windows side for fun and play, but mac side for school and such) so the first thing i find out i have to do is partion the harddrive. For that i need to format. Would be horrible, but yay. Mac had this awesome feature called time machine or somethin. So i make a backup and make sure it sais its backed up and all. Now i go for format/partion. No biggie. Start Mac holding C with the CD that came with my mac. And bam. I partioned, formated and all that. So now i just go into utilities and restore from backup. But oh noes. Now things start to go wrong.
THe partion is too small for the backup. So i go into utilities and undo my partioning. Now the HDD is back to normal. So i go to restore again and this time it works. By now im thinking i'll go into finder and remove useless crap when its done so that it fits. But NO. At arounf 6-7 percent (and 8-9 retries) it still dont work. Just said unexpected error or something. So now im really ****** off. I go and install completely new (use migration assistant later) but NO. Turns out the CD has Snow Leopard on it and I cant migrate Newer versions of OS X. So by now i am basically ripping my hair off and cursing in every language i know (thought tjis would be easy). Now in Snow Leopard i figure. This must be an old version of Snow Leopard. Should try to update. So i Update and all goes well until the Mac does it's usual post-update install reboot. So it just boots up with a blue screen. All i see is Blue. Yay. Going to try safemode tomorrow (holdig shift).
Tl;DR: Macbook pro goes postal after reinstall/restore attempt.

ZibbeZabbe wrote:
OK. So here's the deal. I have a 13" MBP (running Lion that came installed)that i use for schoolwork. So when the computer got cluttered i decided to install windows too (on a partion, so i had windows side for fun and play, but mac side for school and such) so the first thing i find out i have to do is partion the harddrive. For that i need to format. Would be horrible, but yay. Mac had this awesome feature called time machine or somethin. So i make a backup and make sure it sais its backed up and all. Now i go for format/partion. No biggie. Start Mac holding C with the CD that came with my mac. And bam. I partioned, formated and all that. So now i just go into utilities and restore from backup. But oh noes. Now things start to go wrong.
THe partion is too small for the backup. So i go into utilities and undo my partioning. Now the HDD is back to normal. So i go to restore again and this time it works. By now im thinking i'll go into finder and remove useless crap when its done so that it fits. But NO. At arounf 6-7 percent (and 8-9 retries) it still dont work. Just said unexpected error or something. So now im really ****** off. I go and install completely new (use migration assistant later) but NO. Turns out the CD has Snow Leopard on it and I cant migrate Newer versions of OS X. So by now i am basically ripping my hair off and cursing in every language i know (thought tjis would be easy). Now in Snow Leopard i figure. This must be an old version of Snow Leopard. Should try to update. So i Update and all goes well until the Mac does it's usual post-update install reboot. So it just boots up with a blue screen. All i see is Blue. Yay. Going to try safemode tomorrow (holdig shift).
Tl;DR: Macbook pro goes postal after reinstall/restore attempt.
I have no idea where you got your instructions from. Backup now and completely wipe your disk. Repartition as you want then reinstall Snow Leopard, update to at least 10.6.6 and then download and install Lion. Then migrate your other files and try Bootcamp to install Windows.
Search the forums here for the proper instructions on doing this. What you currently have is a system in a horrible mess.
Good Luck
Pete

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