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Is my snow leopard disc bad, or is it the Drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="blank" data-source="post: 994856" data-attributes="member: 142908"><p>I just got my macbook pro off ebay. It was sealed and had everything in it, hasnt been touched.</p><p></p><p>its a a 13" macbook pro, and i did a search for info based on the serial and it said it was built in november 2009.</p><p></p><p>Anyways i was messing with the partitions. I wanted my windows 7 boot camp partition to be bigger. im new to macs so i dont know if there was an easier way to do this (now i believe disk utility will do it? i dunno).</p><p></p><p>anyways i used a ubuntu live cd, and it actually couldnt do it, but after doing that, i kept getting a no operating system error. I could boot up os x by using the alt key though.</p><p></p><p>But the disk utility would no longer work. it kept saying it lost connection to the drive.</p><p></p><p>So i decided to just wipe the entire hard drive, and do everything over from scratch. But when i put my os x disc in the drive (the one that came with the macbook) it just makes a clunk and thunk sound. The disc isnt scratched, and works fine any other time. i mean i load it up in windows and it pops up, etc.</p><p></p><p>but i cant get it to work in the macbook's drive while booting up. i dunno.</p><p>i was able to hook my hp external dvd drive and boot that way.</p><p></p><p>I have no problems with any other disc on the macbook, besides this one.</p><p></p><p>I know sometimes a disc can be kinda corrupt and only some players can read them if you're lucky. </p><p></p><p>but i dont know. Is there a way to test the optical drive in the macbook? Or away to test the disk?</p><p></p><p>Im going to try to get another os x disc and see if it works. doesnt make any sense to me.</p><p></p><p>does anyone have any ideas?</p><p></p><p>btw, i have OS X installing right now from my external drive, and it is making some weird noises (trying to read it, the fast buzz sound, but seems to be installing. i hope it goes through.... its kinda letting me know that its the actual disc <img src="/mac_images/images/smilies/Straight-Faced.png" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":|" title="Straight Faced :|" data-shortname=":|" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="blank, post: 994856, member: 142908"] I just got my macbook pro off ebay. It was sealed and had everything in it, hasnt been touched. its a a 13" macbook pro, and i did a search for info based on the serial and it said it was built in november 2009. Anyways i was messing with the partitions. I wanted my windows 7 boot camp partition to be bigger. im new to macs so i dont know if there was an easier way to do this (now i believe disk utility will do it? i dunno). anyways i used a ubuntu live cd, and it actually couldnt do it, but after doing that, i kept getting a no operating system error. I could boot up os x by using the alt key though. But the disk utility would no longer work. it kept saying it lost connection to the drive. So i decided to just wipe the entire hard drive, and do everything over from scratch. But when i put my os x disc in the drive (the one that came with the macbook) it just makes a clunk and thunk sound. The disc isnt scratched, and works fine any other time. i mean i load it up in windows and it pops up, etc. but i cant get it to work in the macbook's drive while booting up. i dunno. i was able to hook my hp external dvd drive and boot that way. I have no problems with any other disc on the macbook, besides this one. I know sometimes a disc can be kinda corrupt and only some players can read them if you're lucky. but i dont know. Is there a way to test the optical drive in the macbook? Or away to test the disk? Im going to try to get another os x disc and see if it works. doesnt make any sense to me. does anyone have any ideas? btw, i have OS X installing right now from my external drive, and it is making some weird noises (trying to read it, the fast buzz sound, but seems to be installing. i hope it goes through.... its kinda letting me know that its the actual disc :| [/QUOTE]
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