Install Gets Stuck
OK... I've been struggling with this all day...
I'm trying to reinstall Tiger over a mess I made on my hard drive. When I do, it goes great, but right at the end, about 2 minutes out from finish, it gets stuck. I did a hard shut down and rebooted. It again asked for the 2nd install disc, then proceeds to repeat itself, getting stuck right at the end. I managed to reboot from the 1st install disc to try another reinstall, deselecting all the second disc apps so that it won't even ask for it, but it asks for it again and gets stuck in the same place.
So, I rebooted again from the 1st disc and ran disk utility. I then ran the Repair Permissions function, as well as the Repair Disk function, both said my Mac volume checked out fine. But when I tried to restart after that, it again asks for the 2nd install disc.
Basically, the installation is stuck in the installation stage that requires the 2nd disc, but then it just proceeds to get stuck at the same spot. And I've walked away for hours at a time and it's still in the same exact spot.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Intel MacBook Pro
Have you tried reformatting the drive?
Extended Hard Drive Preparation
1. Boot from your OS X Installer Disk. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Installer menu (Utilities menu for Tiger.)
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the number of partitions from the dropdown menu (use 1 partition unless you wish to make more.) Click on the Options button and be sure to select the GUID partition map then click on the OK buton. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the volume(s) mount on the Desktop.
4. Select the volume you just created (this is the sub-entry under the drive entry) from the left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
5. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, check the button for Zero Data and click on OK to return to the Erase window.
6. Click on the Erase button. The format process will take 30 minutes to an hour or more depending upon the drive size.
If this doesn't help then perhaps you have defective installer discs. Try making copies of them and using the copies to install. You will need to have an optical drive that can write dual-layered DVDs (Core 2 Duo MBP, for example) and a couple of dual-layer blank DVDs.
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