Tried to upgrade to lion from SL and computer crashed
Mac Book 2.4 , 4ig ram Running 10.6.8 Tried to load lion in and crashed now it won't recognize Snow Leapard disc to reformat the drive. I've tried to upgrade in the past same thing always causes total melt down. Got it to load went to disc utility's tried to repair to no avail. Now I'm with this issue. I did backup everything so If I can get it to read the disc I'll just start from scratch. Should of left it alone:(
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Mac Book 2.4 , 4ig ram Running 10.6.8 Tried to load lion in and crashed now it won't recognize Snow Leapard disc to reformat the drive. I've tried to upgrade in the past same thing always causes total melt down. Got it to load went to disc utility's tried to repair to no avail. Now I'm with this issue. I did backup everything so If I can get it to read the disc I'll just start from scratch. Should of left it alone:(
Don't think it would have mattered. Sounds like a bad hardware problem. Quite possibly a crashed hard drive. It was probably trying to tell you that during your other total melt downs. May even be your logic board. Get it to an Apple Repairer pronto, hopefully you are still under warranty or Applecare.
Cheers
Pete
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