I'm looking for some recommendations by the experts here.
I have a 13-inch MacBook Pro that I bought from the Apple refurbish store - it was the last one that could run Snow Leopard (which is why I bought that model), but when I received it, it had Lion installed.
Since I needed to run SL for a number of reasons, I went through the firewire exercise to install 10.6.8 and that Mac has been running fine for more than a year.
Today that Mac just quit and won't boot up anymore - I get the Apple logo and then the spinning wheel forever.
So I plugged in an external hard drive with a backup on it and booted from that.
The backup is about a month old - my idea was to repair the disk on the MBp and go from there.
Well, I ran disk utility a few times - no dice.
Comes back with a message that disk utility can't repair the disk.
If I just boot up holding down the option key - no external plugged in, I get the recovery disk with the option to reinstall Lion which isn't really what I want.
I suppose I could try that - it would at least tell me if the problem is with the OS itself or the data - but before I do that - the question.
Is there now any other way to re-install SL other than go through the target dirk mode?
I assume a 10.6.6 or later install disk was never created.
The oldest OS that MBp will install is 10.6.6 but there is no 10.6.6 install disk as far as I know
I have a 13-inch MacBook Pro that I bought from the Apple refurbish store - it was the last one that could run Snow Leopard (which is why I bought that model), but when I received it, it had Lion installed.
Since I needed to run SL for a number of reasons, I went through the firewire exercise to install 10.6.8 and that Mac has been running fine for more than a year.
Today that Mac just quit and won't boot up anymore - I get the Apple logo and then the spinning wheel forever.
So I plugged in an external hard drive with a backup on it and booted from that.
The backup is about a month old - my idea was to repair the disk on the MBp and go from there.
Well, I ran disk utility a few times - no dice.
Comes back with a message that disk utility can't repair the disk.
If I just boot up holding down the option key - no external plugged in, I get the recovery disk with the option to reinstall Lion which isn't really what I want.
I suppose I could try that - it would at least tell me if the problem is with the OS itself or the data - but before I do that - the question.
Is there now any other way to re-install SL other than go through the target dirk mode?
I assume a 10.6.6 or later install disk was never created.
The oldest OS that MBp will install is 10.6.6 but there is no 10.6.6 install disk as far as I know
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