Reinstalling OS X
hello,
to start, I'm not completely sure which model I have, it is a 13" white macbook that I bough July of 09. I am using 10.5.6. I was on firefox, doing nothing out of the ordinary, when my system froze and I got the color wheel. I restarted my computer only to find that it would reach the grey startup screen with the apple logo and the spinning wheel, and wouldn't get any farther. It would just stay at that screen while the computer slowly heated up. I looked it up to find that this was a pretty common problem with macbooks and I would probably just have to reinstall OS X. I put in the installation disk that came with the computer, and followed all the steps until where I was supposed to choose where I wanted to reinstall OS X. I would assume that I should be able to choose my hard drive, but instead there were no options. I went to disk utility and ran the repair on the hard drive, and it said that there was nothing wrong with it.
I couldn't find any help for this particular situation online, so at this point I am stuck. If someone could please help me out and tell me how to reinstall OS X or whatever it I need to do that would be amazing, because I am falling behind on a lot of schoolwork right now
Thanks,
Keith Griffin
to start, I'm not completely sure which model I have, it is a 13" white macbook that I bough July of 09. I am using 10.5.6. I was on firefox, doing nothing out of the ordinary, when my system froze and I got the color wheel. I restarted my computer only to find that it would reach the grey startup screen with the apple logo and the spinning wheel, and wouldn't get any farther. It would just stay at that screen while the computer slowly heated up. I looked it up to find that this was a pretty common problem with macbooks and I would probably just have to reinstall OS X. I put in the installation disk that came with the computer, and followed all the steps until where I was supposed to choose where I wanted to reinstall OS X. I would assume that I should be able to choose my hard drive, but instead there were no options. I went to disk utility and ran the repair on the hard drive, and it said that there was nothing wrong with it.
I couldn't find any help for this particular situation online, so at this point I am stuck. If someone could please help me out and tell me how to reinstall OS X or whatever it I need to do that would be amazing, because I am falling behind on a lot of schoolwork right now
Thanks,
Keith Griffin
Macbook (White), Mac OS X (10.5.6)