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Help! Cannot install Snow Leopard on refurbed MacBook Pro
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<blockquote data-quote="thedollarstore" data-source="post: 1422048" data-attributes="member: 259676"><p>Hello everyone. I think I have the problem solved, and wanted to give you guys the information too, in case you come across this again. I used canned air on the optical drive and still no results. Then I looked through Apple's support site and learned about retail versions of SL versus a restore disk, and I found out about build numbers. Since the retail version of Snow Leopard is a different build than the build that was pre-installed when this MBP was new, this could explain the reason as to why I have not been successful so far. From what I saw, the mid-2010 models seem to have this issue come up more frequently than other models. I just ordered the original install disk with the correct build number and will attempt when it comes in. I will let you guys know what I find. I would welcome any feedback on this. Here the site was looking at; the first shows builds for the hardware, the second shows the builds for the different types of software</p><p></p><p><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1159#MacBook_Pro" target="_blank">Mac OS X versions (builds) for computers</a></p><p>(My MBP is the 11th entry listed under MacBook Pro, about halfway down the page.)</p><p></p><p><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1633#retail" target="_blank">Finding your Mac OS X version and build information</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="thedollarstore, post: 1422048, member: 259676"] Hello everyone. I think I have the problem solved, and wanted to give you guys the information too, in case you come across this again. I used canned air on the optical drive and still no results. Then I looked through Apple's support site and learned about retail versions of SL versus a restore disk, and I found out about build numbers. Since the retail version of Snow Leopard is a different build than the build that was pre-installed when this MBP was new, this could explain the reason as to why I have not been successful so far. From what I saw, the mid-2010 models seem to have this issue come up more frequently than other models. I just ordered the original install disk with the correct build number and will attempt when it comes in. I will let you guys know what I find. I would welcome any feedback on this. Here the site was looking at; the first shows builds for the hardware, the second shows the builds for the different types of software [url=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1159#MacBook_Pro]Mac OS X versions (builds) for computers[/url] (My MBP is the 11th entry listed under MacBook Pro, about halfway down the page.) [url=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1633#retail]Finding your Mac OS X version and build information[/url] [/QUOTE]
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