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Tried to upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard, now Macbook no longer boots.
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<blockquote data-quote="MRL" data-source="post: 1445364" data-attributes="member: 271791"><p>My Macbook has been working just fine, maybe a little slower than when brand new but nothing too drastic. "I should upgrade to Mountain Lion," I says to myself. Why? Heck if I know. So since you can no longer download the OS from Apple I first buy the disc from Amazon.com to upgrade to Snow Leopard. After it works for a while to install I get a notification saying it can't be written to the disc. It suggests I restart, so I do. At that point it says right from the start that it can't be written to the disc and asks how I would like to boot the system. I choose to boot from the OS (as opposed to the cd with Snow Leopard). Just a few seconds later it shuts down and will not boot. If I press the power button it will try to start, the screen will light up and I get the Wall-E sound and then it shuts off. Great looking paper weight and conversation piece but I would rather it work properly again. Thoughts? <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="MRL, post: 1445364, member: 271791"] My Macbook has been working just fine, maybe a little slower than when brand new but nothing too drastic. "I should upgrade to Mountain Lion," I says to myself. Why? Heck if I know. So since you can no longer download the OS from Apple I first buy the disc from Amazon.com to upgrade to Snow Leopard. After it works for a while to install I get a notification saying it can't be written to the disc. It suggests I restart, so I do. At that point it says right from the start that it can't be written to the disc and asks how I would like to boot the system. I choose to boot from the OS (as opposed to the cd with Snow Leopard). Just a few seconds later it shuts down and will not boot. If I press the power button it will try to start, the screen will light up and I get the Wall-E sound and then it shuts off. Great looking paper weight and conversation piece but I would rather it work properly again. Thoughts? :D [/QUOTE]
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