Installed Leopard but Hard drive is still Tiger
I had to wipe my drive on my 2006 MacBook Pro. I reinstalled Leopard but now the hard drive says it's Tiger. What happened? How do I fix?
mcrosby wrote:
Ok, Apple Support told me to reinstall OS X. They told me I would loose all my settings as I was going to set the machine back to the original factory setting of the base OS X installation disk. It was recommended that I back up all my files on the external hard drive, which I did.
This is a good start at understanding what you did, but it would be clearer if you said exactly what you did to "set the machine back to the original factory setting." IOW, which install option did you choose, what disk did you use (a gray system-specific disk or black retail disk & the version of the OS it installs), if you used Disk Utility run from the installer disk to erase or partition the drive before the installation, & if you installed only the Apple software or if you installed anything (at all) from a third party (non-Apple) vendor at any point in the process. Did you use Software Update to update the OS to 10.5.6? Did you reenter the user & network settings by manually typing them or with a migration assistant or something like that?
Was your backup made with Time Machine or in some other way?
Earlier in this topic you mentioned other problems besides connectivity. Do you still have them as well? When you did have them, were you also experiencing the connectivity problem?
Basically, there are two possibilities: the issue is software or hardware related. It is unlikely that the 10.5.6 update itself is the problem; if it were, the problem would not be present when you first installed the OS (however you did it) before updating the OS to 10.5.6. Thus, we must be certain that you first installed some 'factory fresh' version of Leopard less than 10.5.6 & did in fact still see the connectivity problem before doing anything else.
Again, let me emphasize the importance of your telling us exactly what you did, not what Apple said to do or any interpretation of what it was similar or equivalent to.
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