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Blue Screen and Snow Leopard: Safe Mode works, but Install Discs do not
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<blockquote data-quote="falsedichotomy" data-source="post: 1176926" data-attributes="member: 189835"><p>Success! Got the clean install to work. After letting the Leopard disc sit at the gear screen for about 25 minutes, it finally switched over to the Mac OS X install screen and I was able to use disk utility to erase my drive and reinstall Leopard. It turns out that my discs weren't actually wasn't frozen at the gear screen after all; they were for some reason just moving incredibly, incredibly slow. I am so excited right now, I don't even care that I just wasted my whole day, or about the hours it's going to take me to transfer all my important docs and applications and re-customize my laptop.</p><p></p><p>Quick question: what do you guys think the chances are that the move to Snow Leopard was what caused my HD to go haywire? I'm thinking about just sticking with Leopard for the time being, as I've never had a major problem like that until I made the switch.</p><p></p><p>Thanks again for your help and suggestions!: <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="falsedichotomy, post: 1176926, member: 189835"] Success! Got the clean install to work. After letting the Leopard disc sit at the gear screen for about 25 minutes, it finally switched over to the Mac OS X install screen and I was able to use disk utility to erase my drive and reinstall Leopard. It turns out that my discs weren't actually wasn't frozen at the gear screen after all; they were for some reason just moving incredibly, incredibly slow. I am so excited right now, I don't even care that I just wasted my whole day, or about the hours it's going to take me to transfer all my important docs and applications and re-customize my laptop. Quick question: what do you guys think the chances are that the move to Snow Leopard was what caused my HD to go haywire? I'm thinking about just sticking with Leopard for the time being, as I've never had a major problem like that until I made the switch. Thanks again for your help and suggestions!: :D [/QUOTE]
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