Continuation on Spinning Beach Ball of Death!

[bedouin]

Well, finally I called OWC tech support to see what they could do about the drive.

At this point I could not even get the drive to boot.

So the guy emailed me instructions and the next day the drive booted and none of it worked.

I called back and based on the age of the iMac and the highest operating system it can use - time to nuke and pave.

Tried it and failed multiple times. Can't even partition, input output error.

Now they are sending me a new drive.

No more Carbon Clone. I will just install 10.5 (I have the DVD) and then upgade to 10.7. And copy over only the data I need.

Any other tips?

TIA

Matthew

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No more Carbon Clone. I will just install 10.5 (I have the DVD) and then upgade to 10.7.

What recipe for disaster. Just install 10.7 fresh. I am not sure if Apple still sells 10.7, if they do, you need 10.6.x to use App Store to buy 10.7

Or perhaps you can find a 10.7 Bootable USB stick. Apple sold those at some point, or you could make your own.

DO NOT BOTHER WITH 10.5 if your goal is to go to 10.7

or if you decided that 10.6 is good enough, just buy the DVD directly from Apple ($20).

either way I see no reason to install 10.5

[bedouin]

All I have is 10.5.4 as an install DVD.

So no way to updade 10.5 thru the App Stor to get to 10.7?

[bedouin]

I just found 10.7 for $19.99 at the Apple Store online.

Guess I should buy it??

Nothing downloadable??

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bedouin wrote:
I just found 10.7 for $19.99 at the Apple Store online.

Guess I should buy it??

Nothing downloadable??

is this what you found? you need 10.6.6. You cannot use 10.5 to download 10.7, as 10.5 does not have an App store.

http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion

What do you receive: An email with a content code for the Mac App Store.

System Requirements
An Intel Core 2 Duo, i3, Core i5, Core i7 or Xeon processor

Mac OS X Snow Leopard v10.6.6 or later (v10.6.8 recommended)
7 GB free hard drive space
2 GB RAM

[Onamuji]

You need to buy a physical DVD of Mac OS X 10.6 and install it to get the App Store app to upgrade to 10.7 or higher.

$20 from Apple.

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Onamuji wrote:
You need to buy a physical DVD of Mac OS X 10.6 and install it to get the App Store app to upgrade to 10.7 or higher.

$20 from Apple.

this. after you're done downloading the 10.7, make a bootable USB (google is your friend) and then you no longer need the 10.6 DVD, you could sell it. Or if you have a friend with 10.6, use their machine do download 10.7; you can buy the 10.7 from the link you posted above, just use your friend;s machine to make a new account, and download 10.7 for yourself, make bootable USB and go home. with the $20 you saved but some beer and pizza for your friend, LOL. at least you save one install.

[bedouin]

Ok, the iMac I am on now is running Yosemite.

So I download 10.7 on this Mac, then google on how to make a bootable USB boot disk and then copy that to a usb drive and take it over to my old white iMac and install it!

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bedouin wrote:
Ok, the iMac I am on now is running Yosemite.

So I download 10.7 on this Mac, then google on how to make a bootable USB boot disk and then copy that to a usb drive and take it over to my old white iMac and install it!

Sounds like a good plan, only I am not sure if App Store allows you to download an older OS, I hope it lets you do that. Good luck!

[bedouin]

Well if this iMac running Yosemite can't download then I guess I can use the old white iMac, boot from the old external 250GB hdd, download Lion (which I have ordered - looks like it will be an email with a code to download it) find an old flash drive figure out how to make a bootable copy and then thake the old iMac apart (yet again) install the new drive, put it all back together and install Lion.

Or, if this iMac allows me to download it I wonder if I can then just pop the new 1GB drive into the external HDD case and then install the downloaded Lion right to that new drive??

Hmmmm