Install disc won't re-install Leopard on my Macbook

So, I recently upgraded my Hard Drive in my Macbook. After I upgraded, I thought it would be cool to have Windows XP on my Mac also. So I partition 20 gb of my Hard Drive off for XP. I ran boot camp to install XP and I kept getting an error. This left me with an empty partition of 20 gb on my Hard Drive. I read many posts on here and I decided that the best thing to do was to re-install Leopard completely and start over, fresh and clean. Well, I put my Leopard install disc into my dvd drive, and when the install starts up, I get an error message that says, "Mac OS X can not be installed on this drive." Also, the install disc will not eject, even before the install starts. My hard drive is completely blank right now, and I have no idea why my install disc won't work. What should I do?

Open Disk Utility again (from the installer DVD), click on the drive's name as described in the previous post, & click the blue "i" button to get the disk's info. Copy that to a reply in this thread so we can see it. Or just note the "Partition Map Scheme" info, which should say "GUID Partition Table."
If not, you did not succeed in repartitioning it, perhaps because you did not click the "Apply" button or something.
If so, make sure you are using the installer disk that came with the MacBook & not some other model-specific installer disk.
BTW, you can never eject the DVD if you have started up the MacBook from it, so that much is normal behavior. To eject the DVD, you must restart from some other boot volume.

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Installing Leopard on old macbook using the disk of a Macbook Pro

I want to install leopard on my old macbook using the disc i got by my Macbook Pro
specs of macbook wich i can't install leopard on:
Modelnaam: MacBook
Modelaanduiding: MacBook1,1
Processornaam: Intel Core Duo
Processorsnelheid: 2 GHz
Aantal processors: 1
Totaal aantal cores: 2
L2-cache (per processor): 2 MB
Geheugen: 1 GB
Bussnelheid: 667 MHz
Opstart-ROM-versie: MB11.0061.B03
SMC-versie: 1.4f12
Serienummer: 4H627A89VMM
Btw the format of hardisk in macbook is Journaled HFS+ and Tiger 10.4.11 installed
specs of macbook pro wich leopard installdisc i'm using to install leopard
Modelnaam: MacBook Pro
Modelaanduiding: MacBookPro3,1
Processornaam: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processorsnelheid: 2.2 GHz
Aantal processors: 1
Totaal aantal cores: 2
L2-cache: 4 MB
Geheugen: 2 GB
Bussnelheid: 800 MHz
Opstart-ROM-versie: MBP31.0070.B05
SMC-versie: 1.16f10
Serienummer: W88037KYX91
(on macbook pro leopard succesfully installed)
I don't see the problem and can't find it anywhere, hopefully you know it.
Thanks,
Niels
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Klapschaats,
Unfortunately, the installation media that comes with your Mac will only work with that particular machine. These installation discs are not the same as a retail copy of Leopard. The retail installation disc can be installed on any supported machine. The installation media that came with your Macbook Pro for example has data on it meant only for that machine. Think of it also as something like an "OEM" disc for Windows when you purchase a machine from Dell. That particular installation disc is licensed only for that machine and contains files specifically for that machine.

Cannot Install Leopard on my Macbook

Hi,
I recently bought a macbook off ebay due to my ibook dying and not being good enough to run leopard anyway (67MHz off!), eventually got it and I can't install leopard on it! This makes no sense to me as its a core 2 duo 2ghz 2gb ram, definately high enough spec! I put the Leopard Disc in (it's not the retail one but it says "For Mac Computers") and it boots to it, gets to the first screen asking to choose the language, so I pick English...then it has a think...then it says "Mac OS X cannot be installed on this computer". What's that about? I can install ubuntu on it easily, I can even put XP on it easily but it won't have leopard! Anyone got any ideas?

When you buy a Mac from an "official" reseller, it always comes with the system software on a DVD that will only work on that model of computer.
You appear to have a DVD designed to be used on a model of computer other than the MacBook you bought.
The retail version would work. I think you'll have to buy it.
However I do think that the person who sold you the MacBook should have included the system software disks with it.

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I've heard that if your Macbook is partitioned with windows, you will have problems when you try and install the new Leopard operating system. Is this true? Can I just simply place a leopard install disc into my computer and get the new operating system without worrying about anything?

tamtam10 wrote:
I've heard that if your Macbook is partitioned with windows, you will have problems when you try and install the new Leopard operating system. Is this true? Can I just simply place a leopard install disc into my computer and get the new operating system without worrying about anything?
It's nonsense. I installed Leopard on my partitioned and Boot Camped drive with no issues or problems.
Bob

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I have an Intel Macbook (2GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD) with OS 10.4.11 installed, and am trying to upgrade to 10.5 with a retail version of Leopard. However, when I attempt to boot from the install disc (which I can successfully do), I cannot install Leopard because of an error message that it "cannot be installed on this machine."
Any help/advice?

pixelinpink wrote:
I have an Intel Macbook (2GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB HD) with OS 10.4.11 installed, and am trying to upgrade to 10.5 with a retail version of Leopard. However, when I attempt to boot from the install disc (which I can successfully do), I cannot install Leopard because of an error message that it "cannot be installed on this machine."
Any help/advice?
Check out this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1940?viewlocale=en_US
Is the Leopard DVD a complete retail version (not an update)?
Is your MBP a very recent one? If you you need a very recent version of the install DVD.
Is your HD formatted/partitioned properly for Leopard (GUID, HFS+)?
You may need to backup your Tiger install (SuperDuper or CCC clone is perfect) and then do an erase and install of Leopard on a blank HD. You can always boot into Tiger (as I do) from the backup, and you can migrate from the Tiger BU to Leopard.

Install Leopard on a Macbook with Windows

I recently purchased a used 2007 Macbook and it came with only one partition and Windows XP installed. I am new to the Mac world and unfamiliar with BootCamp.
How would I go about partitioning and installing Leopard on this machine without killing the XP install?
Thanks.

Bummer. I was hoping BootCamp came with some sort of partition manager. So is the recommended course of action to fdisk into separate partitions then install Leopard and reinstall Windows?

Installed Leopard and now MacBook can not run on battery

I installed Leopard and now if it is disconnected from the power it will shut down immediately. It worked fine before.. How do I fix?

You might try to reset the SMC (System Management Controller) and/or PRAM (Parameter Random Access Memory). Mac OS X: What's stored in PRAM?

Installing Leopard on New Macbook

I recently purchased the new Macbooks that came with Snow Leopard, but because they are going in a school enviroment and our software compatibility issues, I need to install leopard on them. I can get the device to boot and show me the retail install cd, but when I click the cd for install it freezes.
I suspect that the device is booting possibly in 64-bit mode and know I can hold down 32 to get it to boot in to 32-bit mode, but when I do that it wont then let me hold down the option key to access Boot Manager.
Any ideas or insight would be greatly appreciated...
Background:
We recently purchased 25 of the new Macbook for distribution in a school enviroment. When the devices arrived I attempted to do a NetRestore from our Snow Leopard Server with the Leopard image that works on the older macbook models, but when it comes to this model (no firewire edition, suck) it gets a kernal panic error. So I was going to do a manual configuration on a single one of these devices and then use the image utility to create a new image, I could hopefully NetRestore with.

So,
Etresoft was correct.
After some troubleshooting and a call to AppleCare, some discoveries were made that were challenging. I was forced to install Snow Leopard and check the compatibility of our Education software to see if it would run without a problem and it did (thank God).
The next obsticle was creating the .nbi of the image off the "New Macbook" that no longer supported "Target Disk", with some discussion on the phone with the Apple Rep we both concluded this would only be possible if I were to install Snow Leopard on an external drive and then install the Snow Leopard Server Admin Tools and boot to that. Once that installation was complete, I was able to boot from the external and use the Image tility to get the new image off the device and moved over to our Snow Leopard Server.

External disc won't mount in Leopard, but will in Snow Leopard

I have a 5-yr-old G5 networked to a new iMac. I have had a 1-TB external HD attached via Firewire 400 to the G5 for about a year. Yesterday it didn't show up on the G5 desktop. I went to this forum, searched under "disc won't mount", got some ideas, ran DiskWarrior and Disk Utility...but nothing worked. They all said the disc was fine, directories rebuilt, etc., but it wouldn't mount. This AM it occurred to me that I had the correct cable, so I tried plugging it into the iMac instead. It worked. The data is safe, the disc shows up, everything seems to be OK, but it won't mount to the G5. Why would that happen, and how can I mount it to the G5? And how likely is the disc to remain accessible?

May I hop onto your thread as I have a similar problem.
I have a 5 year old G5 PMac with 10.5 onto which I have daisy chained two UltraMax 1TB firewire 800 drives. For the last 5 years I have been able, even with out sharing enabled, to connect to the G5 from a G4 Graphite with 10.4, a G4 Powerbook with 10.5 and now a MbP with 10.6.
After completing the login dialogue in the past from any other mac it would give me a list of the G5, it's Hard disk, user directories and the two Firewire Drives. On selecting them the drive would mount onto the desktop as a network drive. This went well until monday when it became temperamental in the morning and after a few restarts and one successful mount it has not shown up since. If I come to the G5 via the Go > Connect to Server I get a dialogue "Could Not connect to the server because the name or password are incorrect". If I try to connect via the network icon in the side window of the finder window I get a network dialogue log in, I get a list of folders and drives but then when selecting the FH drive get an error message which relates to the alias to the G5 Server requiring deleting or fixing.
Originally it just connected without any messing but now unless i make the firewire drive a shared drive the process on the other macs cannot see the firewire drive. NOTE - After having made the internal boot HD of the G5 shared, I can now see and mount this drive from the other macs but not the external drive.
This is causing me to pull my hair out, I have run disk utility, powered down unconnected and reconnected everything .The HD's appear to be working ok from the G5.
I urgently need to connect the FW drive to my G4 to do some work but it also needs to be connected to the G5, has anyone got a clue why I cant get G4 (or any other mac) to mount G5's external FW drive

Installing Leopard on a MacBook Pro

Hey guy, Vinny again. Im also thinking about getting Leopard for my MacBook Pro. My book is pretty new and i just want to be sure everything will setup ok and i wont screw anything up. Here are my system stats:
Processor:Intel Core 2 Duo- 2.4 GHz
Memory: 2 GB
Hard Drive: about 120 Gigs left
If you need any other info let me know and ill pull it up. --Thanks again, Vinny

Hi Vinny.
As they always say, "Prevention is better than cure" and in this case, regardless of how new and how little stuffs (apps, your own work, photo, music, etc etc) or how much lots of stuffs are on your computer, back them up. Use an external FW drive to clone your entire system (using SuperDuper) so should anything happens after the Leopard upgrade, you have something to fall back on immediately.
(Note: When formatting your ext drive as bootable, made possible by SuperDuper's clone, be sure to format your ext drive in GUID partition - http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/apple/leopard-disk-utility-format-issue-screws-with-t ime-machine-but-theres-an-easy-fix-316573.php)
When you finish cloning/backing up your current drive, go ahead and make the Leopard leap; Then you can also copy files from this back up drive to your new system.
If you can, you can invest in another drive for use with Time Machine in 10.5 SuperDuper is currently not yet fully compatible with Leopard.
Cheers

Can't install Leopard on SR Macbook 2.2

I've got a late 2007 2.2 GHz MacBook that I can't get Leopard installed onto. I tried the retail disc but got the error "cannot be installed on this computer". I don't have the original discs so I went online and bought a set (10.5.2) from the latest MacBooks and they won't install either. I figured since the retail v. was released before the MacBook it wouldn't work, but the new set is from a later model. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.

Because the MacBook had one more release after your 2.2 with the Penryn processors. Every nonretail install disc is system specific. Release dates on all Intel Macs for system specific discs are here:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303315
Yes, you have to call the original owner for the discs.
Retail install discs will only work on older Macs than the discs themselves.
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Install leopard on new macbook pro

Im thinking of getting a new macbook and want to see if I can run Leopard (not Snow Leopard) on it through partition so I can boot either Lion or leopard I want to use quicken 2007 and a few other apps which are not supported by lion I need very little disk space and I DONT want to install windows. I have a powerpc g4 and its going to be obselete in a few months and Im already seeing it happen like on facebook. I cant even watch videos now that I post there.New Flash update not compatable for non intel machines. Want to buy me a christmas present with my bonus
Thanks Perry

Perry Mullhaupt1 wrote:
Im thinking of getting a new macbook and want to see if I can run Leopard
No. definitely not on a brand new mac.

Need to install leopard on my macbook and superdrive is faulty

I recently upgraded my hard disk from 120 gb to 320 gb. After installing the new hard drive, tried to boot the machine using the original leopard disk. But the problem is that superdrive keeps ejecting the installation disk.
How can I install the operating system on the new 320 gb hard disk when the internal superdrive does not seem to be working.
Can you please suggest a solution?
Thanks in Advance

if I get an external dvd drive, will macbook recognize it via USB?
Also, can you please explain 'copying DVD to the MB'. What does MB stands for and how do I copy the leopard disk to MB.
I am sorry this is the first time that I have tried changing the hard drive in my mac and do not not know much about it.
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Why would hard disc crash after installing Leopard?

Shortly after installing Leopard on my Macbook, my hard drive crashed. I replaced the hard drive but the installation would not then complete because of an input/ output error (according to the log). The DVD installation disc is OK according to First Aid and there are no marks on the surface of the disc. The DVD drive appears to read other discs OK according toe First Aid.
Why would the hard drive crash and why will Leopard not install?

You could also check the connections to the new HD. Even if the connectors appear to be fully inserted, check for physical problems such as impacted pins, (ones that are bent or pushed back into the connector body) which won't make full contact. Check also for signs of sharp bending in the connector ribbon which may indicate a damaged or broken core.

Mac Mail application won't open since installing Leopard

Hi Folks,
This is my first post - I have usually been able to locate the help I need just by searching through the discussions, but haven't found anything on this issue (hope I didn't miss it). Since installing Leopard on my MacBook (2 GHz, Intel Core 2 Duo, 80 GB HD) I cannot open the email app. (Mac Mail). The error message I get is: "+you cannot use the application "mail" with this version of Mac OS X+". Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks!

If you had the Mail Application stored in any other directory (folder) than the root Applications Folder, you will get this error message because Leopard installs a new Mail Application in the Applications folder.
Delete your old Mail Application from its current locations, and from the dock, and run the newly installed Mail Application in the Applications Folder and you should be fine.
This is also true for several other Applications that are installed new in Leopard. I don't know them all, but you will when you run them and get the same error message.
Good luck. Hope this fixes your problem.

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