Usb Boot Macbook

Hey guys here I am AGAIN!!! My 2007 c2d macbook wont boot from usb, Ive read ALL intel mac should be able to boot from usb, but mine doesn't... Any clue why? BTW I'm trying to install Lion

Hatchet92882 said:

BTW I'm trying to install Lion

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If you're trying to install Lion from a bootable USB installer…maybe something went wrong with the creation of the installer.

- Nick

I'm having to do it with a windows 7 machine

Hatchet92882 said:

I'm having to do it with a windows 7 machine

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Are you saying you had to make the Lion USB installer on a Windows machine?

- Nick

yea I got a lion image and put it on a usb using transmac, I dont have any sort of access to a mac

If this is for a non Mac, (Hackintosh) this thread is closed. And I suspect it is if you don't have access to a Mac and are using TransMac (a favorite of hackers) to try to make a Lion bootable USB flash drive.

No I have a real Mac. I just need to put lion back on it, I acidently deleted it. I can take a pic to prove it

Hatchet92882 said:

...I dont have any sort of access to a mac

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I you have a 2007 MacBook (as mentioned in post #1)…you do have access to a Mac. I'm going to assume that it is operational (since you didn't say otherwise)…so it must have OS 10.5 or 10.6 installed on it.

Since at least 10.6.6 is needed to access, purchase, and download apps from the Mac App Store…then you should have no problem downloading the Lion installer onto your 2007 MacBook.

Once this is done…just launch the Lion installer (on the 2007 MacBook)…and everything should be good!

- Nick

Hatchet92882 said:

No I have a real Mac. I just need to put lion back on it, I acidently deleted it

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If Lion was originally installed on it…then you just need to boot into the Lion recovery partition (command + r)…and reinstall Lion onto the main HD partition.

- Nick

I dont know if it had Lion in it orginally, it was given to me with it on it. since im a noob on macs i screwed it up and deleted it, I was able to get windows running on it, on it now. There is no more recovery partition on it, I tried and it did nothing

pigoo3 said:

I you have a 2007 MacBook (as mentioned in post #1)…you do have access to a Mac. I'm going to assume that it is operational (since you didn't say otherwise)…so it must have OS 10.5 or 10.6 installed on it.


- Nick

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I dont have another mac other than this one, the 2007 macbook, the one I'm trying to get lion installed.

Hatchet92882 said:

I dont have another mac other than this one, the 2007 macbook, the one I'm trying to get lion installed.

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Then here's the solution:

- Purchase yourself a copy of 10.6 Snow Leopard for $19.99:

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.)

- Install 10.6.
- Update to the latest version of 10.6 (using Software Update via the Apple menu).
- Download 10.7 Lion onto your 2007 MacBook.
- Install 10.7.

Good to go!

- Nick

pigoo3 said:

Then here's the solution:

- Purchase yourself a copy of 10.6 Snow Leopard for $19.99:

Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.)

- Install 10.6.
- Update to the latest version of 10.6 (using Software Update via the Apple menu).
- Download 10.7 Lion onto your 2007 MacBook.
- Install 10.7.

Good to go!

- Nick

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I already have a copy of Snow Leopard, but my drive is screwed. I promiss I'm not making it up

Hatchet92882 said:

I already have a copy of Snow Leopard, but my drive is screwed. I promiss I'm not making it up

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You should have mentioned that earlier.

Two more suggestions:

1. Go to your local Apple Store (I know that there's one in Louisville)...and see if they can help you get 10.7 installed onto your MacBook.

2. Purchase a $50 external USB optical drive from OWC...so you can use your Snow Leopard disk to install OS 10.6.

OWC VLU2SD24XS External 24X DVD DL USB 2.0... in stock at OWC

- Nick

What happens next?