Comments on: Snow Leopard installation goes badly!

By: VicXander

VicXander — Wed, 12 May 2010 03:20:00 +0000

Same problem with you.. Try cloning the retail disc and burn it in dual layer 8.5 GB DVD. I use imgBurn in windows to clone the disc and save it as .iso file, After that I burn it using the same program to DVD+R dual layer disc. Then I insert it to my macbook and press c. It works.

By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:47:10 +0000

Tried to install SL at least 10 times on my IMAC before reading this thread. It came with 2 GB of RAM. About 6 months ago, I bought 4 GB to upgrade but would never work with both of the new memory chips so I had to install one along with one of the the original 1 GB chips.(making for a total of 3 GB on board) Tried and tried to install the SL time and time again. It would look like it was going to install for about 45 minutes then restart. But checking About this Mac it would only show 10.5.8. I tried taking out the NEW RAM chip and installing with only the one original 1 RAM chip. When I restarted with the install disc in the IMAC it booted up and started to install right away. The install took as a new operating system install. After that I shut it down and reinstalled the 2 GB RAM chip and everythng works like a charm.

Thanks for the tip everyone. Try it-it works.

By: MR. MONGOSLADE

MR. MONGOSLADE — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 13:56:54 +0000

Don’t feel bad people, I’m in Iraq, I have a late OCT unibody macbook. I finally got SL to install after about 100 tries with two different family pack discs that both worked in my friends macbooks, by taking my new hard drive and my old 2,1 macbook and installing the OS on the new hard drive, then installed back in the unibody, updated with time machine, everything is good. But a hell of a journey thgough

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 06:19:17 +0000

I have been trying to get my iMac to take the snow leopard upgrade on and off for months. This thread finally nailed it! Thanks a ton!!
I had upgraded my 2.8Ghz mid 2008 iMac from the factory 2x1GB to some new Crucial 2x2GB and I put the 2x1GB into my mac-mini. The mac-mini took the SL upgrade no problem. After swapping the memory back form the mac-mini. Upgrade finally took…

Swapped the memory back, downloaded and installed all post updates. All is good so far…

Tried to install iLife 09, now I’m getting errors with it, and it won’t insall.

THIS IS RIDICULOUS, what is so different about the factory memory? OR is it the fact that it is more than what came with the machine from the factory? This is too trivial to truly matter, just absurd.

Did anyone have similar issues trying to install iLife 09?

By: new SL user

new SL user — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:49:27 +0000

I followed IKat’s method, using an external DVD drive to install Snow Leopard on my 2.0 core 2 duo macbook pro — it worked.

After repeated attempts to install Snow Leopard using my laptop’s drive, I went to this site. I wasn’t willing to drive back to my hometown to find my original ram. Disk utility also returned no errors on the dvd. Lucky for me, my roommate bought a new external DVD RW, so I gave IKat’s suggestion a try.

This is my experience.

By: Tony Flanders

Tony Flanders — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 02:10:36 +0000

I have tried seven times to install Snow Leopard in my iMac. I’ve unplugged all appendages, I’ve repaired the destination disk; I’ve assumed I missed a running application and exited all applications; nothing works, Ironically, I just bought a Mac Book Air with Snow Leopard and it runs like a hot damn. I think it’s the Install Disk. I’ll have to make a trip to Mac Store but at this point I’m wondering if its worth the time. I was happy with my iMac before they told me this was better.
I am disappointed in Apple though.

By: Lee

Lee — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:06:05 +0000

As I said, I switched from my upgrade RAM, back to my mac- RAM.. then, SL installed perfectly.!!!

BUT, then i tried switching back to my “Corsair DDR2-5300: 2x2gb”.. and SL started fuckin’ up! the whole system just slowed down, and one could not tell that I had 4GB ram installed…

SO, i had to switch back to my mac-ram (2x1gb)… it works perfectly.. although.. It sucks havin’ 4 gb of ram, and not being able to use it…

Anyone got a clue why it’s like this?

By: Brittany

Brittany — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 05:13:45 +0000

It must be a bad batch of disks. I am having the same problem and mine is (B09 000125), also made in Singapore

By: mike

mike — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:19:06 +0000

I’ve heard there are some wildlife groups trying to get Apple to do more stuff with the actual S.L.’s lol. I don’t know- people are saying it’s good PR for Apple- they should jump on that.

By: Michael Craig

Michael Craig — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:26:10 +0000

Thanks for the help guys. I reinstalled the original RAM (2gig) that came with my 2.16 MBP and Snow Leopard installed perfectly. BTW the upgraded RAM was from Other World Computing.
-Very frustrating process until I found this site!