Install failed Mac OS X could not be installed on your computer

Hi,
I have a new SSD. I encountered an error twice and it says:
The installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
I have used the same SSD as an external drive and it worked fine.
When I went to disk utility the drive was visible and had one partition, the one I used to start up. I tried deleting the partition but it says disk could not unmount.
Could anyone please help me
Thanks

Clean Install of Snow Leopard
Be sure to make a backup first because the following procedure will erase
the drive and everything on it.
     1. Boot the computer using the Snow Leopard Installer Disc or the Disc 1 that came
         with your computer. Insert the disc into the optical drive and restart the computer.
         After the chime press and hold down the "C" key. Release the key when you see
         a small spinning gear appear below the dark gray Apple logo.
     2. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue
         button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
         After DU loads select the hard drive entry from the left side list (mfgr.'s ID and drive
         size.) Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. Set the number of
         partitions to one (1) from the Partitions drop down menu, click on Options button
         and select GUID, click on OK, then set the format type to MacOS Extended
         (Journaled, if supported), then click on the Apply button.
     3. When the formatting has completed quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed
         with the OS X installation and follow the directions included with the installer.
     4. When the installation has completed your computer will Restart into the Setup
         Assistant. Be sure you configure your initial admin account with the exact same
         username and password that you used on your old drive. After you finish Setup
         Assistant will complete the installation after which you will be running a fresh
         install of OS X. You can now begin the update process by opening Software
         Update and installing all recommended updates to bring your installation current.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.

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I wanted to delete everything and reinstall it.
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Hello guys and girls,
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Comment by: yugrotavele on 20080518 [04:36:56]
A nice GUI frontend for ffmpeg.
First Submitted: Sun, 18 May 2008 04:28:31 +0000
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winff 0.42-1 (Unsupported): GUI for ffmpeg
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- rpmextract (already installed)
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==> ----------------------------------------------
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resolving dependencies...
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Targets: gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-4
Total Download Size: 0.00 MB
Total Installed Size: 0.70 MB
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--2008-07-01 21:34:13-- http://winff.googlecode.com/files/winff-0.42-amd64.deb
Resolving winff.googlecode.com... 64.233.187.82
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HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1383594 (1.3M) [application/x-archive application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: `winff-0.42-amd64.deb'
100%[=============================================================================>] 1,383,594 191K/s in 7.4s
2008-07-01 21:34:21 (183 KB/s) - `winff-0.42-amd64.deb' saved [1383594/1383594]
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winff-0.42-amd64.deb ... Passed
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==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Starting build()...
x - debian-binary
x - control.tar.gz
x - data.tar.gz
./usr/
./usr/bin/
./usr/bin/winff
./usr/share/
./usr/share/doc/
./usr/share/doc/winff/
./usr/share/doc/winff/copyright
./usr/share/doc/winff/winff.pdf
./usr/share/doc/winff/README.txt
./usr/share/doc/winff/README-Icons.txt
./usr/share/doc/winff/README-Presets.txt
./usr/share/doc/winff/changelog
./usr/share/applications/
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./usr/share/winff/
./usr/share/winff/winff.png
./usr/share/winff/presets.xml
./usr/share/winff/languages/
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./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.nl.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.fr.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.pb.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.tr.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.de.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.zh.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.it.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.pt.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.pl.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.bg.po
./usr/share/winff/languages/winff.po
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-> Removing info/doc files...
-> Compressing man pages...
-> Stripping debugging symbols from binaries and libraries...
==> Creating package...
-> Generating .PKGINFO file...
-> Compressing package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
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==> Continue installing 'winff'? [Y/n]
==> [v]iew package contents [c]heck package with namcap
==> ----------------------------------------------
==>y
loading package data...
checking dependencies...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: winff: requires ffmpeg gtk gdk-pixbuf
==> WARNING: Your package is saved in /tmp/winff-0.42-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz
I tried doing it without changing the package name to winff-amd64, but same thing happens. What's going on?

Ahh man, and that's it! It works.
I'm just wondering now how can I contribute this PKGBUILD to AUR, but I can read that in the wiki too.
Thanks!

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Hello,
I have a portable 500gb HD and I use it to put music and other stuff.
Earlier, out of the blue, all of my music from iTunes disappeared, and I tried to put it back by dragging my folder "music" from the external HD to iTunes, but the message "Attempting to copy to the disk Macintosh HD failed. The disk could not be read or written to." appears and nothing happens. Only 40 albums (the same ones every time) go into iTunes before the message appear.
I tried restarting the computer and nothing happened.

This sounds more like a hardware issue, possibly a failing drive if you had mysteriously vanishing files and there are problems writing to your drive.. You could get better support on a forum for your Mac model or at lest one for your operating system version. Have you verified the disk with Disk Utility to see what it reports?

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