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Hello Community,
I just recently decided to upgrade my IMac OS running 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard. There were a few considerations that motivated this upgrade, mainly the need to run a 64bit version of Windows 7 through Bootcamp in the secondary partition in order to take advantage of the just upgraded 4GB of RAM.
So I went to the Apple Store on saturday morning, bought a DVD with SNL and set out to have a smooth update session.
I wasn't intending to do a fresh install even if I have all my data backed up through TimeMachine; so I followed the screen instructions from Leopard hoping for a quick upgrade, unfortunately after a restart and a grey screen lapse a message showed saying that the install couldn't be completed.
I carried out a few tests to determine the source of the failure as the scripted log was unreadable in plain english and didn't seem to throw any clues to the cause of the error.
I did a disk verification through DiskUtility which didn't find any errors on my HD; I also thought it could be related to the recently installed RAM so I carried out an extensive Apple Hardware Test using the original installation disk which took nearly 90 minutes and that also didn't show any errors.
At this point I thought I would try a fresh install by rebooting from the DVD but that operation was also unsuccessful.
I have read a few threads which point either to a faulty DVD (unlikely as I bought it brand new) or a problem with my optical drive.
Has anybody experienced something similar? I am on an Intel IMac Mid 2007 with Leopard 10.5.8.
I just recently decided to upgrade my IMac OS running 10.5.8 to Snow Leopard. There were a few considerations that motivated this upgrade, mainly the need to run a 64bit version of Windows 7 through Bootcamp in the secondary partition in order to take advantage of the just upgraded 4GB of RAM.
So I went to the Apple Store on saturday morning, bought a DVD with SNL and set out to have a smooth update session.
I wasn't intending to do a fresh install even if I have all my data backed up through TimeMachine; so I followed the screen instructions from Leopard hoping for a quick upgrade, unfortunately after a restart and a grey screen lapse a message showed saying that the install couldn't be completed.
I carried out a few tests to determine the source of the failure as the scripted log was unreadable in plain english and didn't seem to throw any clues to the cause of the error.
I did a disk verification through DiskUtility which didn't find any errors on my HD; I also thought it could be related to the recently installed RAM so I carried out an extensive Apple Hardware Test using the original installation disk which took nearly 90 minutes and that also didn't show any errors.
At this point I thought I would try a fresh install by rebooting from the DVD but that operation was also unsuccessful.
I have read a few threads which point either to a faulty DVD (unlikely as I bought it brand new) or a problem with my optical drive.
Has anybody experienced something similar? I am on an Intel IMac Mid 2007 with Leopard 10.5.8.