Upgrading to OS X Mavericks from Snow Leopard

Hi, I am upgrading to Mavericks from Snow Leopard and after I downloaded the OS X from App Store, my MacBook Pro restarted automatically but unfortunately I am stuck in a grey screen with the apple icon in the middle and with the loading wheel turning underneath the apple. It's been so long as around 2 hours that I'm stuck in this screen. Can someone help me please??

kevbon83,
if Mavericks installed successfully, then it should have created a recovery partition on your internal drive. Are you able to hold down a Command key and the R key while booting, to see if it starts into the recovery partition? If that doesn’t work, then you’ll need to use the original model-specific grey installation DVDs that came in the box with your MacBook Pro. Put the disc marked “Mac OS X Install DVD” into your internal SuperDrive, and reboot while holding down the C key. You’ll then be able to run the DVD’s Disk Utility command to “verify” your internal drive.

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Upgrade to Office 2008 or 2011 by buying it from the Microsoft website.
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Anonymous UUID:       EB50AA11-2803-1B21-F027-853513903D23
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0xffffff80f72eb660 : 0xffffff7f887bba03
0xffffff80f72eb670 : 0xffffff7f88780cd0
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0xffffff80f72eb690 : 0xffffff7f88762b11
0xffffff80f72eb6d0 : 0xffffff7f88765085
0xffffff80f72eb700 : 0xffffff7f887b5b50
0xffffff80f72eb780 : 0xffffff7f8879dcc0
0xffffff80f72eb7e0 : 0xffffff7f8879e5ba
0xffffff80f72eb830 : 0xffffff7f8879eaa0
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I own a black Macbook Pro and am currently running Snow Leopard. I've maxed my RAM to 4 GB and processing to 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, but when I went to install Mavericks from this website, it said that it can't be installed on this computer. Does anyone know why? Is my computer too old?

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Model Identifier:          Macmini3,1
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Number of Processors:          1
Total Number of Cores:          2
L2 Cache:          3 MB
Memory:          4 GB
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Hi.
I am havng problem when I want to upgrade. I have got Snow Loepard 10.6.8, my mac is MacBook Pro 15. App Store says that Mavericks cannot be installed on my computer. I really don't know why is so.
Please give me feedback how to fix it.

I've checked that my MacBook is "MacBook Pro (15-inch or 17-inch, Mid/Late 2007 or later)". I also meet requiarements: "
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2 GB or more of memory
8 GB or more of available space"
I've got 11 gb free total on my disc. Mabe it is too low?

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