Install disk failure

This may be a common error, but I'm trying install PE9 on a Mac OS X (version 10.6.5), and as soon as I start to install the disk pops out and I keep getting this error about their being a problem with the language pack. How do I get around this?
WARNING: Payload cannot be installed due to dependent operation failure
WARNING: Payload cannot be installed due to dependent operation failure
WARNING: Payload cannot be installed due to dependent operation failure
WARNING: Payload cannot be installed due to dependent operation failure
WARNING: Payload cannot be installed due to dependent operation failure
ERROR: Custom Action for payload {81B0CE07-2DA2-4c59-BA46-BC81E0656491} Common returned error. Failing this payload.
ERROR: Custom Action for payload {2B3B0E84-7724-48ed-BEA4-15F5ED8FBAD7} Presets returned error. Failing this payload.
ERROR: Custom Action for payload {A29C9F23-87F1-4651-ADF7-2CB7CC7F79B0} HD returned error. Failing this payload.
ERROR: Custom Action for payload {78C17FAA-2368-4505-BED6-C6F56F923AE0} SD returned error. Failing this payload.
ERROR: Custom Action for payload {A85C9905-3D8E-41FF-A031-15DB7EFFA6E5} PreMacContentInstaller returned error. Failing this payload.
ERROR: The following payload errors were found during install:
ERROR: - PreMacContentInstaller_LangPacken_US: Install failed
ERROR: - Presets: Failed due to Language Pack installation failure
ERROR: - HD_LangPackHDOther: Install failed
ERROR: - Common_LangPackCommonOther: Install failed
ERROR: - SD: Failed due to Language Pack installation failure
ERROR: - Common: Failed due to Language Pack installation failure
ERROR: - Presets_LangPackPresetsOther: Install failed
ERROR: - SD_LangPackSDOther: Install failed
ERROR: - HD: Failed due to Language Pack installation failure
ERROR: - PreMacContentInstaller: Failed due to Language Pack installation failure

What language is your OS? What language of PrE are you trying to install? It seems that most of the faulting modules are regarding languange.
Also, are you certain that you are installing the program (first), and not the Functional Content?
Good luck,
Hunt

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Satellite L650-07U (PSK1EC-07U00Q)
This site is for US computers. I doubt you'll get your questions for that Canadian model answered here.
There appear to be two recovery partitions. Maybe one for 32- and one for 64-bit Windows. Or maybe one is for English and the other for French.
Your User's Manual isn't much help either. You probably need to ask Toshiba tech support in Canada.
About all I have to offer is this: Be wary of drives with advanced-format technology. See my message about that.
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Brother, Sound74, I thought I was the only one pulling the hair out of my chest one by one the past two days. Your situation is very similar to mine, and I'm just as clueless as you are. I started getting kernel panic screens, then nothing on boot, until finally I brought it to the local genius bar. They ran all the usual software/hardware tests, updated Tiger to 10.4.11, recommended I buy Leopard and do an erase-install. My computer, of course, was working absolutely fine by this point. I bought Leopard, came home, backed everything up, then tried to install the new OS. Like in your case, it just up and quit half-way through. Screen went black and a "No DVI Signal" message came on my display (it does this when I turn it on without first turning on the computer).
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Back up all data immediately as your boot drive may be failing.
If you have more than one user account, these instructions must be carried out as an administrator.
Triple-click anywhere in the line below on this page to select it:
syslog -k Sender kernel -k Message CSeq "I/O error" | tail | open -f -a TextEdit
Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C).
Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:
☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)
☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.
☞ Open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the icon grid.
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V).
The command may take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear.
A TextEdit window will open with the output of the command.
Normally the window will be empty. If you get output like this:
kernel[0] <Debug>: disk0s2: I/O error
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Hi. I purchased my laptop 16 months ago and this is the third time I have had hard Disk Failure. The first two times were in the first year and I received a new harddrive after sending it in to Depot for repair. Here we are the Third time and now Im outta warranty and apparently outta luck. Here are my many questions, first of all I didnt have the opportunity to back anything up, so if I were to replace the Hdd on my own, does that mean I would also have to purchase a new Vista package? Also, I have a Western Digital External harddrive that Im not using.....would that be of any assistance to me in trying to recover anything from the laptop?
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I am very disappointed that I continue to have hardware problems with factory installed HP components.

Since your computer is still under warranty, your best bet is to contact HP Customer Support and start the troubleshooting / repair process.
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Hard disk failure HP G7000 laptop

Hi,
I'm getting hard disk failure on a HP G7000 laptop. The machine boots fine from DVD drive using a Linux boot disk.
Vista installed on machine.
No recovery disk was created when machine was first bought and any disks provided with the machine when bought can't be found.
The Vista licence tag is on the base of the machine so I have a licence key for Vista.
1. What type of hard drive do I buy as replacement? SATA 2.5 inch?
2. Can I use any Microsoft Vista install disk and type in the licence key on the base of the machine?
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Hi,
The failure ID will either be a Smart or Disk Self Test failure - both would indicate that your Hard Drive is failing and will need to be replaced.
If your notebook is still under warranty, contact HP and arrange to have the drive replaced. Or incase your unit OOW you can purchase a New Hard drive.
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HARD DISK FAILURE IS IMMINENT

Product Name: HP Pavilion p6390d
OS: Windows 7 32 - bit
Error Message: Hard Disk Failure is Imminent
Things I did before having this error:
I reformatted my computer to erase an error from my program (specifically: solidworks) since it has conflicts regarding on 2 versions i installed and 1 of which has lost some of its files and i dont know how it got lost and so i resorted to reformatting.
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Derek, welcome to the forum.
The hard drive has S.M.A.R.T. technology. This tests your hard drive for possible failure. In your case, it appears that your drive is ready to fail. I suggest buying a new drive.
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This may be a dumb question. I've just moved over from Windows. My 27in iMac came pre-installed with Lion and no install disks. In the event of a drive failure how would I re-install the operation system? In windows with a fresh drive I would have to load up Windows, then reload my backup software and then load up my backup. I'm backing up with Time Machine to an external drive but can that restore direct to a clean drive? Am I missing something, surely I should have been given an OS-X install disk?

Hello:
This article explains, in detail, all about Lion recovery - a new feature built into OS X 10.7:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718
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Since you indicate you just moved over from the "dark side" (welcome ), you may not have heard that there are NO viruses that affect a Mac running OS X - none. A/V software is unnecessary. At a minimum, A/V software on a Mac wastes resources and frequently causes serious harm to software.
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Somehow, the hard disk in my MBA has been corrupted, or something. First symptom I noticed - when booting up, I get stuck on that blank blue screen for, oh, 5 minutes or so, before flashing back to the grey Apple logo screen, then finally getting to the desktop. I tried repairing permissions via Disk Utility; it spun for 10 minutes without doing anything, so I stopped the process. The "Repair Disk" function in Disk Utility was not available for some reason, so I tried "Verify Disk." This failed. I forget the exact wording of the error message, but it said, in essence, that the disk was corrupted and I should run Disk Utility from the system install disk.
Here it gets interesting. I have an MBA SuperDrive, so I first tried booting from there. I'd forgotten about holding down "c" I just held Option, selected the disk, and tried to boot from it. I got a grey screen with the grey Apple logo and a spinning gear; then the Apple logo was replaced by a grey circle with a diagonal line through it (like, from a "no smoking" sign or something) and a spinning gear... this persisted for another 10 minutes or so without going anywhere, so I forced a shutdown.
Thinking the problem might be the SuperDrive, I tried to do the same procedure via Remote Disk (from an iBook G4 running 10.5.5). I followed the instructions, connected the MBA to my wireless network, it found the remote disk, tried to boot from it - but I got the same behavior. Grey Apple screen giving way to grey circle with a diagonal line through it, and an endlessly spinning gear underneath.
What in the world is going on here?
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You seem to have a lot of problems, the last being a kernel panic. This is often attributed to a hardware failure including the possibility of defective RAM.
They are not easy to track down but here are some suggestions to assist you.
What is a Kernel panic?
Resolving Kernel Panic's by Dr Smoke
However, try once again to boot from the install DVD and perform Repair Disk, otherwise, start on the troubleshooting.

Wrong support on hard disk failure?

My iMac had been getting progressively slower (applications would lock up with the spinning wheel for minutes at a time before letting me do anything).
After one such lockup, I hard booted and the iMac didn't come back - just stuck at a grey screen with the spinning wheel.
I rang Apple Support and on a long support call was taken through various checks before the conclusion of hard disk problem was diagnosed. We tried to repair using the disk utility, but that was unsuccessful and given that I had a time machine backup, the advice was to reformat, reload Snow Leopard, re-download and upgrade to Lion and the use Time Machine to restore.
All fine (and I am back up and running now) - but one element of the support advice didn't ring true to me and I ignored it! So I'm asking for opinions on whether I was right to do so.
I was told to use a Time Machine backup from before the slow behaviour started, as by restoring I could restore the disk problem in the files loaded back from the Time Machine backup. This made no sense to me. I had a hard disk failure - sure - and Disk Utility confirmed this. By reformatting the hard disk, I've eliminated the hard disk issue (albeit that having failed once I guess I may get other bad sectors/failures in the future). The files on Time Machine - in whatever state they are in, are just files. By copying them back onto the disk, I can't damage the disk - I may just end up with damaged files. If some of those files were operating system files, then I could end up with problems - but as the operating system was cleanly installed - not from Time Machine - then even this shouldn't be an issue.
Seems to me the only issue I may have is with my own files - restored from TM - if they happened to be on a bad part of the disk and were damaged.
Do you agree? Or am I missing something about being able to create bad areas on a disk by copying bad files?

To add to this - given that I've had no replies, given with perhaps others have faced similar issues without a solutions.
My problem has recurred - the disk failure repeated - again unable to repair the harddisk and having to reformat, reinstall Lion and restore from Time Machine again.
Two points here:
I continue to believe the support information I was given was wrong - and will be talking support again to test this. My harddisk post reformat was fine (disk utility showed no problems), and post restoring from Time Machine the harddisk again was fine. But after a week, the disk has failed again. I don't believe that restoring files can cause this, but think I must have a bad harddisk and that the real answer is to replace the harddisk
I was told (on the original support call) not to use the latest backup - as that might bring back corrupted files that could recreate the disk problem. I ignored this as above as I felt the support was wrong - it making no sense to me that on a good disk, copying bad files could corrupt the disk. However, when you use the migration assistant you do not get an opportunity to choose the date you are copying data from - so there seems to be no way of doing what the support team told me to do - by default I get the very latest backup. Am I missing something?

Hard disk failure but now I have no boot cd

Hi,
I had a hard disk failure, I have swapped out the hard disk but now have no boot DVD and of course I have lost the recovery partition.
I have tried to make a boot memory stick from my mac mini but when trying to re install it just says there is an error while checking eligibility.
help, I don't know what to do next
Thank you

Boot the MBP OPTION+COMMAND+R and you should see a display with a revolving globe. This will connect you to the Apple servers and allow you to install the original OSX that came with your MBP. You will need a solid Internet connection.
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Hard disk failure and warranty

I bought my Macbook in September '07, without the extended Apple Care warranty. My hard disk recently failed--after the computer shut itself off while attempting to wake from sleep while the DVD player was open and paused. (This particular sequence had happened before, without the subsequent hard disk failure.) Now I boot from my firewire backup, and disk utility and even the OSX install disk cannot find the internal drive. Instead I just hear this sound like a limping bird from that corner of the case.
At any rate, since my computer as a whole is outside the 1-yr warranty by now, I wanted to ask--can individual parts carry their own warranty, as well? Because this Macbook is still only lightly used, and it seems silly to suffer such a fate so soon.

Early hard drive failures tend to be random in nature. Of course older hard drives tend to suffer exponentially higher failure rates as the parts wear. I've had little used hard drives crash after less than 6 months. It just happens.
Unfortunately for you, the warranty isn't based on amount of use, but time from the date of purchase. Still - the cost of aftermarket replacement drives is so low that you could probably just purchase a new one at an almost nominal cost. You could by an equivalent replacement for about $60. You've already got the backup, so cloning it back to the new drive should be something you already know how to do.

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