Up grade to Snow leopard and ... nothing more?

Hello There,
I recently upgrade my MBP to Snow leopard.
It worked a few days, much better than before.
But one day as I wanted to start, it gonged and ... stay on the Apple with the wheel running for hours.
I found here (on the forum) that I could restart it with a "start/gong/shift" process and that it will be better.
I have done this and after several trials, it restarted.
I worked a day with it and at the end of the day, as written on the forum, I have done a "usual" restart.
And again the apple and the wheel.
And now, no more "without extension" start.
Only the wheel and the progression bar that desappears after few minuts.
I clearly can hear the HDD working until the bar desapears and after that only the fan's roaring...
Any idea to give live back to my MBP?
Thanking you in advance for any solution.
All best

Hello,
I ran all the steps with no result until restart with the installation disc.
I started the installation and crash.
Right now, the situation is :
-the mouse works foolishlee, only from left to right and with difficulties from the top to the bottom of the screen.
-the dialog box display this message : the installation of the Mac OS X is not completed. If it continues to give error messages, the historic of the installation can help to have a diagnostic. I am sorry this a poor translation.
-the historic : localhost unknown [80]: 2014-02-15 LCA[79;903] _CFGetHostUUIDString: unable to determine UUID for host. Error : 35
                    localhost OSInstaller[142] : Error parsing distribution script from data
                    localhost xmllint[148] : /bin/sh: /usr/bin/xmlint : No such file or directory
                    localhost unknown[149]: Lauching the Installer Crash Log Viewer
If the mouse work, the option displayed are :
shut down
restart
save historic
display historic
Help!!!
Thanking you in advance.
Best

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Howdy slowpoke43, and a warm welcome to the forums!
Please help! I am just faking it here based on a few message boards I've read. Will this actually work properly?
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1. Yes, absolutely... no CCC would be best in my experience/opinion.
2. Yes, the more he better... Free Space is no longer our Free Space, but OSX's.
3. Indeed, & if you have the correct version of DW, do that.
4. Yes, not long, A/C power is great.
How to format your disks...
http://www.kenstone.net/fcphomepage/partitioningtiger.html
(To Install OSX on an IntelMac the Drive it needs the GUID Partitioning scheme mentioned at the bottom.)
Thanks to Pondini, Formatting, Partitioning, Verifying, and Repairing Disks...
http://web.me.com/pondini/AppleTips/DU.html
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7. Absolutely, but Panic won't be needed with your great preparation & Bootable Backups!
8. Not quite sure I understand, but run SL for a few days before you do anything.
9. Yeah, but again with you doing everything right from the gitgo, I can't picture that happening.
10. Yes indeed, the hangup with yours is that it only holds 2GB of RAM... a pain in 10.5 & up IME.
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Of all the changes you mention three things that you consider abominations...
UI changes more in line with iOS. Sure, and this is bad because...?
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i do not have Snow leopard yet and the only version i have seen is an update disc you can buy from apple for about £25 is this ok to use or will i need a copy of the full version?
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All of this is based on honesty and ethics. The Leo disks are the same. The Leo disk in the upgrade does not look for evidence of Leo, at least not to install. You can erase and install with the Leo disk, or install on a virgin HDD that has never seen Mac OS X.
We create dualboot systems when we seed test Mac OS X all the time. SuperDuper will make Sandbox partition and install just Mac OS X and Apple apps. It leaves 3rd party apps, your data and user accounts and settings on your main Mac OS X installation. Then we lay the new version of Mac OS X over the Sandbox and boot into it. So we have the current Gold Master of Mac OS X and the new version that we are testing, and we can boot into either and they both share our data and accounts.
That may be more tricky when you are using different versions of Mac OS X, as opposed to different updates of the same version. For example, Leo and Snow Leo have different versions of many Mac apps. I do not know how they might handle your stored data if they handled the creation of music or photo libraries differently.
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When I check the Mavericks disk in the optical drive with disk utility after booting / running Snow Leopard on the primary disk I get som errors, see below ("disk utility Info"). So after all, I decided to erase the disk and install Mavericks new. But even erasing the disk is not possible when it is in the optical drive enclosure. I get this error message:
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Could not unmount disk"
When I put this disk into an external case connected via USB however, it starts and runds MAvericks without any Problem. Same happens when I put thie Mavericks disk into the internal primary hard disk place.
"disk utility Info" when verinfying the secondary drive in the oprical bay:
Verifying volume “Samsung SSD Daten”
Performing live verification.
Checking Journaled HFS Plus volume.
Checking extents overflow file.
Unused node is not erased (node = 40)
Checking catalog file.
Unused node is not erased (node = 30)
Checking multi-linked files.
Checking catalog hierarchy.
Checking extended attributes file.
Unused node is not erased (node = 8)
Checking volume bitmap.
Volume bitmap needs minor repair for orphaned blocks
Checking volume information.
The volume Samsung SSD Daten was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Click Repair Disk.
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1 TB WD external USB2.0 drive attached, using Time Machine on it.
OSX 10.6.2

Have you talked to Adobe about this issue? I have used Photoshop CS4 on Snow Leopard, and havn't seen any issues. However, the scrambled windows look like what Top Sites in Safari looked like before they (supposedly—I still get it occasionally) fixed it in 10.6.2.
Speaking of which, try re-installing the 10.6.2 combo update.
Also, try using the uninstallers to remove Photoshop (don't forget to deactivate first), and then re-install it.

Up grade to Snow leopard and ... nothing more?

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