I am currently trying to load Snow Leopard onto my laptop, I have the 10.4.11 system, but the process is stuck on 41 minutes remaing and has been for about half an hour, so nothing is budging! Please help, I am too scared to stop it as the guy in the shop said "whatever you do just let it run its course!" Thank you, Kate
MacBook, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
Are you sure your Mac meets Snow Leopard minimum requirements?
Mac OS X v10.6 Snow Leopard - Technical Specifications
I hope you backed up your important files before you started.
as the guy in the shop
An Apple store?
Yes, everything backed up thankfully! And I contacted Apple support plus our local comp. shop who all reassured me I was good to go! HELP!
Did you run Disk Utility first to make sure the startup disk didn't need repairing first?
OK, this is all way beyond me, I clearly dont have enough understanding to be doing what I am doing! I think I will just stop the process and check disk space etc, then start again. Otherwise I am at a loss, thank you x
Right or control click the MacintoshHD icon. Click Get Info. In the Get Info window you will see Capacity and Available. Make sure you have a minimum of 15% free disk space.
You can reinstall Tiger v10.4 from your Mac install disc if necessary.
You're welcome 🙂
Abort the installation and try to restart the computer. If it's OK, then do the following:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Tiger Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
If the drive and permissions are now OK try reinstalling Snow Leopard. However, because you have a backup I would boot from the Snow Leopard DVD, erase the hard drive then install Snow Leopard. Once it starts up in the Setup Assistant you will have the option to restore from a backup or other hard drive. Select that option and follow instructions on migrating your Home folder and applications.
This will save a lot of time over trying to upgrade again.
Going to give it a whirl, thank you so much, fingers crossed!
🙂
It has all gone horribly wrong, I didnt think it would be straight forward. I can not eject the disk and so it goes straight to the first stages of loading which of course I dont want, so will have to be computorless and hope the guy in the local shop can work it out for me tomorrow.
Boot from your bootable backup drive - restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager appears. Select the icon for your external drive then click on the downward pointing arrow button.
After the computer starts up do the following:
Drive Preparation
1. Open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.
2. After DU loads select your internal hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
3. Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed.
Leave DU open and do the following:
Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility
Destination means the internal drive. Source means the external drive.
This will restore your old system so you can continue using the computer.
An alternative to the above is that after formatting the internal drive restart from the Snow Leopard DVD and install Snow Leopard on the freshly formatted internal drive. You can then restore your Home folder and other applications through the Setup Assistant which will provide an option to restore your files from another Mac or hard drive.
I am currently trying to load Snow Leopard onto my system and it is frozen
