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Snow Leopard cannot install

MacBook Pro intel with plenty of memory

New install disc for Snow Leopard from 10.5

After a period of time, screen became very dark and I had to use a bight light to see desktop to finish installation. Then message came up that installation failed "Cannot install OSX on this computer"

I restarted several times but the same thing happens. Ran disc utility to check HD. At this point I would like to just bail out of the upgrade but the CD is still in and everytime I restart it goes to the install screen and I can't cancel or eject the CD.

Thanks for any suggestions.

1.83 GHz Intel Core Duo

Posted on Dec 27, 2009 9:32 AM

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Posted on Dec 27, 2009 9:37 AM

Hold down the mouse button while restarting and it should spit out the disk.

Is it a retail copy of Snow Leopard?
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Dec 27, 2009 9:39 AM in response to myelo12

myelo12 wrote:
MacBook Pro intel with plenty of memory

how much is plenty? please fill in your profile.
New install disc for Snow Leopard from 10.5

After a period of time, screen became very dark and I had to use a bight light to see desktop to finish installation. Then message came up that installation failed "Cannot install OSX on this computer"

I restarted several times but the same thing happens. Ran disc utility to check HD.

what did you run? repair disk or repair permissions? and what are the results?
At this point I would like to just bail out of the upgrade but the CD is still in and everytime I restart it goes to the install screen and I can't cancel or eject the CD.

if you can run disk utility you should also be able to choose the startup disk from the Utilities menu. then just quit the installer using command+q and restart. btw, do you have a backup?
Thanks for any suggestions.

Dec 27, 2009 9:49 AM in response to V.K.

V.K. Thanks for the reply.

I can't remember how much memory but the computer store guy said it would be fine. (My profile is for the desktop I'm using).

I ran both disc repair and permission and everything seemed OK. Sorry I don't remember the exact wording.

I have the files backup at work (I'm at home).

Snow Leopard cannot install

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