MacBook Air will not boot up, please help!!

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MacBook Air will not boot up, please help!!

I have been searching for questions throughout the discussion boards for a week now and every answer to those similar questions, I have tried!! I bought a used MacBook Air that had Mac OS X 10.6.8 on it. It did not have a recovery partition so I could wipe it clean, so I made one on a flash drive and finally figured out how to wipe the HD clean and I installed Mac OS X 10.7 on it. Now, when I try to boot it up, it chimes, goes to the Apple logo, and just shows the spinning wheel. I've left it like that all night 1 night, hoping it will boot up by morning. No such luck...

I have literally tried EVERYTHING I have looked up...Reset PRAM, SMC, Recovered & reinstalled Mac OS X, and Tried to boot in safe mode (still the same result). I really hope someone can help me, please?

MacBook Air, Mac OS X (10.7)

Posted on Oct 19, 2015 11:41 PM

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OGELTHORPE

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Oct 20, 2015 3:52 AM in response to kadkins6

How do you know your Lion USB installer is not corrupt. I suggest reinstalling the original OSX and start from there. Upgrade it to 10.6.8 and then purchase Lion OSX from the online store and then install it.

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Oct 20, 2015 3:56 AM in response to OGELTHORPE

How do I get it back to 10.6.8?

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OGELTHORPE

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Oct 20, 2015 4:05 AM in response to kadkins6

You have no identified the exact MBA that you have.

If the original OSX was Leopard, install Leopard. Then install Snow leopard using the Snow Leopard retail disk available from the Apple online store. Then run the Snow Leopard combo update which will get the MBA to 10 6 8.

If the original OSX was Snow Leopard, reinstall it and then run the Snow Leopard combo update.

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Oct 20, 2015 3:10 PM in response to OGELTHORPE

I Am not sure of the exact kind because I purchased it used...All I know is that it had Snow Leopard installed at the time of purchase. there a way to download the snow leopard disk so I can use it on a flash drive?

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