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<blockquote data-quote="Ayatori" data-source="post: 483440" data-attributes="member: 37938"><p>Hi everybody,</p><p>i got a macbook whose dvd unit fried a while ago. I had an external burner that worked better anyway so i just stuck to it and never had any problems with it - until now, that is, when i formated the whole hard drive to reinstall everything. When installing macosX, it worked fine until it got to the applications DVD and then it got stuck (the console gave me a "Cannot instantiate this or that application"- tried with other sets of install disks with the same problem) Finally managed to get macosX installed by checking off all the additional apps, but now when i try to install windows it gets pretty stuck during the reboot until it shows me a picture of a folder with a question mark in the middle of a gray screen. </p><p>Whats going on?are mac laptops not suited for working with an external drive in those situations?or should i try with a different drive?</p><p>could i even use another macbooks dvd drive externally?that doesnt sound possible to me...but it would be easier for me to access another macbook than another drive!</p><p>thanks a bunch to anyone listening,</p><p>Mario C</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ayatori, post: 483440, member: 37938"] Hi everybody, i got a macbook whose dvd unit fried a while ago. I had an external burner that worked better anyway so i just stuck to it and never had any problems with it - until now, that is, when i formated the whole hard drive to reinstall everything. When installing macosX, it worked fine until it got to the applications DVD and then it got stuck (the console gave me a "Cannot instantiate this or that application"- tried with other sets of install disks with the same problem) Finally managed to get macosX installed by checking off all the additional apps, but now when i try to install windows it gets pretty stuck during the reboot until it shows me a picture of a folder with a question mark in the middle of a gray screen. Whats going on?are mac laptops not suited for working with an external drive in those situations?or should i try with a different drive? could i even use another macbooks dvd drive externally?that doesnt sound possible to me...but it would be easier for me to access another macbook than another drive! thanks a bunch to anyone listening, Mario C [/QUOTE]
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