Macbook Pro won't boot up

I can't get my mbp on lion 10.7.4 to boot up.

I went into Disk Utility from the startup sequence and erased and journaled my startup disk. And then by pressing Comand+R the screen goes into a spinning globe instead of allowing me to bootup from my timemachine backups.And i've tried to boot from an os x disc but a screen with a big X appears saying 'Installing' but after a coiple of minutes an error appears saying something like 'The installation could not be completed. Try reinstalling again'.

Can anyone help me?

Time Machine backups are not bootable. You need to reinstall Lion before you can use your Time Machine backup to restore from. And, if you're using an OS X disk to boot with and your machine came preinstalled with Lion, it's not going to work.

Reinstall Lion first (download from the App store), and then restore from your Time Machine backup.

chscag said:

Time Machine backups are not bootable. You need to reinstall Lion before you can use your Time Machine backup to restore from. And, if you're using an OS X disk to boot with and your machine came preinstalled with Lion, it's not going to work.

Reinstall Lion first (download from the App store), and then restore from your Time Machine backup.

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Hi,

Sorry I meant I can't get past the startup screen and am unable to get to the screen with menu choices, (timemachine, get lion from internet, disk utility etc). Is there anyway I could use a lion disk because I think my machine came preinstalled with Lion? .Would I be able to install with a disc from the startup?

okizen said:

Hi,

Sorry I meant I can't get past the startup screen and am unable to get to the screen with menu choices, (timemachine, get lion from internet, disk utility etc). Is there anyway I could use a lion disk because I think my machine came preinstalled with Lion? .Would I be able to install with a disc from the startup?

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If you're machine comes with Lion preinstalled you did not get a Lion disk , as there is no Lion disk .
But you do have a recovery disk .
To use the recovery mode start the Mac while you press the option key .
Than you can reinstall Lion over the internet .
That may take a long time .
Or just buy Lion from the app store .