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Mid 2009 macbook pro with leopard which over the years has been upgraded to lion. Hard drive failure and changed drive, restored from time machine backup but cannot reboot from it and thus have lost all upgrades. Have to reboot from leopard dvd and have now lost all upgrades. How do i get back lion?
MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)
Hello,
Boot from the 10.6 Install Disc, reinstall, update to 10.6.8, then download Lion again if you didn't save the 10.7 Installer app before installing, which conviently trashes itself after instlalling. 😟
I dont have 10.6 Install Disk, my Mac came with 10.5.8. I have another Mac with 10.6 install disk that i have tried but i get a messaga saying "Cannot install Snow Leopard on this Computer".
How did you upgrade to Lion?
Do you have a copy of the Lion Install App?
Back in the day you could download upgrades from apple.....now you need snow leopard to have app store and you cannot download snow leopard upgrade any more from apple online...
no lion install app...
this is annoying
Agreed, I think it's a terrible way to do it as far as the user goes, but how did you get 10.6 or 10.7 on it in the first place?
I think you need a 10.6 Disc... & might stick to 10.6. 😉
It's been pulled from the online store & Apple Stores, so you have to call Apple to buy it, last I heard.
Call Apple Sales...in the US: 1-800-MY-APPLE.
You could actually purchase the upgrade from 10.5.8 to 10.6 online for download....
Jeb, do you have a link for that?
Unfortunately not. I have read that you have to buy physical disk from apple to upgrade.
Thanks Jeb, as I thought. 🙂
after having updated leopard to lion i had to restore and cannot boot lion
