Snow Leopard problems

Got my disc, popped it into the drive of my air and followed all the instructions. After installation I was asked to restart. When it does, all you get is my desktop image and the colourful spinning wheel which just turns for an eternity.

Any suggestions on what I can do would be most helpful. S Leopard was meant to make things faster not make life worse.

Kieron

Did you backup prior to the installation?

I installed yesterday afternoon, no problems, and yea things are quite speedy - impressed =-)

backing up

yes I did, using the time machine. If I need to re-install from it, what's the best way of doing so?

Kieron

I had exactly the same thing. Customer Support had me do a hard reboot while simultaneously holding down the "C" key. Worked on my MBP.

Only one minor problem with mine. Cannot get my printer to work. Runs me in circles - web site for HP tells me the drivers are included in Snow Leopard but when trying to install them it says they "are not available."

PapaNoHair said:

Only one minor problem with mine. Cannot get my printer to work. Runs me in circles - web site for HP tells me the drivers are included in Snow Leopard but when trying to install them it says they "are not available."

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What model HP printer is this? I will check into it for you.

what did they exactly ask you to do

jrichard012 said:

I had exactly the same thing. Customer Support had me do a hard reboot while simultaneously holding down the "C" key. Worked on my MBP.

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was this after you had installed the software?

Do I just press the power and c button?

Thanks Kieron

kieronm said:

was this after you had installed the software?

Do I just press the power and c button?

Thanks Kieron

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The SL disk was already in the optical drive. I did the hard boot while holding down the C key and it went ahead and did the installation. The install took about 45 minutes.

**Editted** Had a problem with multiple programs showing a visual distortion behind the windows when not being the active window.. After finishing system updates and rebooting (which is now amazingly fast) problem vanished