Snow Leopard installation freezes at 25 minutes remaining

Hello,
I am trying to upgrade my software from Tiger to Snow Leopard on my 13 inch MacBook currently operating with Mac OSX 10.4.11. I put the installation CD into the computer, and began the installation process. However, at 25 minutes remaining, the installation froze and the little color wheel kept spinning on my screen. The installation disk in the disk drive kept making a sound like it was trying to continue with the process, but then the noise would die down, and then it would get louder, and die down (and repeat) for three hours. I turned my computer off last night, and am not sure how to move forward today. What should I expect when I turn it back on? What should I do to I install this new software successfully? Any assistance is greatly appreciated. Thank you!

When I select Disk Utility from the menu, will there be an option to select Repair Disk?
After choosing Language then click the Utilities Menu - Disk Utility - Click your internal HD on the left - Select *First Aid* tab and then you will see Repair Disk.
What does this process do?
It will repair the disk if it can be repaired. This may take several passes, so run Repair Disk several times. If the disk cannot be repaired it will continue to get error messages, at that point you will need to replace the internal HD.
Should the Snow Leopard disk remain in my MB while I run the Repair Disk process?
Yes!
If so, how can I start the installation process - do I need to hit a specific key or command?
After Repair Disk has successfully repaired the internal HD quit Disk Utility and continue with the installation per the on-screen instructions.
BTW I sure hope you backed up your internal HD prior to doing the upgrade, if not you have lost all of your data, settings and applications!
I don't know if this has an impact on the problem, but I did not erase or unistall anything on my hard drive before starting the SL installation process.
That's fine

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5GB of available disk space
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Five ways to eject a stuck CD or DVD from the optical drive
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2. Press the Eject button on your keyboard.
3. Click on the Eject button in the menubar.
4. Press COMMAND-E.
5. If none of the above work try this: Open the Terminal application in your Utilities folder. At the prompt enter or paste the following:
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Boot the computer into Single-user Mode. At the prompt enter the same command as used above. To restart the computer enter "reboot" at the prompt without quotes.
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Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. 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 your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
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Disclaimer: Apple does not necessarily endorse any suggestions, solutions, or third-party software products that may be mentioned in the topic below. Apple encourages you to first seek a solution at Apple Support. The following links are provided as is, with no guarantee of the effectiveness or reliability of the information. Apple does not guarantee that these links will be maintained or functional at any given time. Use the information below at your own discretion.
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General Information
• Snow Leopard will only run on a Mac with an Intel processor. It will not run on any Mac with a PowerPC processor. PowerPC-based Macs include all PowerMac G3s, PowerMac G4s and PowerMac G5s, iMac G3s, iMac G4s, iMac G5s, all PowerBooks, all iBooks, and all eMacs. There is no workaround or hack that will get around this issue and get Snow Leopard to install and run on a PowerPC-based Mac.
• An Apple web page with the major enhancements and refinements in Snow Leopard can be found here:
http://www.apple.com/macosx/refinements/enhancements-refinements.html
• An article with a useful summary about Snow Leopard and 64-bit computing can be found here:
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20090826074252596
Tips
• IMPORTANT: As with any upgrade, you need to confirm compatibility of all your applications and drivers with Snow Leopard before you upgrade. Some major items of note:
Snow Leopard only ships with Java 1.6, so any applications built with Java must include support for 1.6 or the application will fail. Applications that currently use Java and are reported not to work include (but are by no means limited to) SPSS, ClamXav and Cyberduck.
Snow Leopard has severely restricted or in many cases eliminated the use of Input Managers, so applications that depended on those will fail. Logitech's mouse drivers appear to fall into this category.
Many applications that are or include menu bar components will fail if they depend on Unsanity's Menu Extra Enabler or the open-source Menu Cracker.
Apple has a list of software officially stated to be incompatible with Snow Leopard here:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3258
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Mine Late 2009 Mac Book Air 13.3/2.13GHZ/2GB/128SSD. Came with Snow Leopard. But I migrated to the latest OS as they become available and was running
on Maveric until few days back
Form two weeks ago mine started to have lock up screen... Initially while I was on Safari three weeks ago.
Forced quit the screen but would not boot. On every attempt a single bleep at regular intervel. Tried all suggested Safe start, Command D , ect with no luck.
Left it for a day and pressed the start button the computer worked for until yesterday.
Yesterday on my attempt to install the latest updates from apple for the iWork & OS update for RAW files..Safari,the screen developed lock up.
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I have tried thie few times and no further progress possible..
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Regards

No,Mine was not shipped with USB OSX. I had two disks came with this computer.
I placed my order for the Mac BookAir in the second week of August 2009-The period when the OS Snow Leopard is to be released. My computer was dispatched in the 2nd Week of Sept 2009 and I was lucky the the Snow Leapoard was installed with 2 diskets in the box.
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1. When closing the lid or pressing the power button the computer freezes, the fans start spinning fast it stays like that until it drains the battery. This happens every time.
2. Start-up times are very long, like 3 or 4 minutes. This also happens every time.
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Message was edited by: johnnydanger

Ahhh yes, I did. That's what I get for reading the boards so late!
I'd still try another SL disc if at all possible.
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ok lets see if i can type this without my computer freezing.
SO. to begin, i have a iMac 10.6.8 which also has snow leopard. I have recently downloaded many things, that ended up not working so i deleted them. I dont know if thats whats been slowing it down (the downloads still being installed but deleted from trash?) but lately my computer has been very glitchy. I dont have apple care or whatever, so i cant call.
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i dont know what else to do. is there something i can download to clean up un-used apps. or unistall items?
i just want to play my games and have my iMac run smoothley. if anyone can help thatd be awsome.
skype me: castrojake
i just want someone who has had this happen, and fixed to help me out.
its an iMac 20 inch Mid 2007
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In the Memory tab, are there a lot of Pageouts?

Snow Leopard installation freezes at 25 minutes remaining

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