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Ok well I have just kicked off the installation, straight forward and I made sure I selected a new install and not upgrade. sweeeet :D

Edit: Eish doesn't look good, the first install bombed out saying the disk is dirty trying cleaning it, if look at the disk right on the end it has this brown almost burnt looking area, fsk know what is is but could very well be the reason. Dunno where I will get new discs if these dont work :( Giving it another try.
 
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Grimspoon said:
Ok well I have just kicked off the installation, straight forward and I made sure I selected a new install and not upgrade. sweeeet :D

Edit: Eish doesn't look good, the first install bombed out saying the disk is dirty trying cleaning it, if look at the disk right on the end it has this brown almost burnt looking area, fsk know what is is but could very well be the reason. Dunno where I will get new discs if these dont work :( Giving it another try.
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Yeah osx tests the disc before installing, sometimes if you skip the test it will still install normally, so when it says "verifying disc" just choose skip to go ahead with the install, if the install fails you'll need to order new restore discs.

Also since this is a second hand mac you should run a diagnostic first, just boot your mac while holding "d" down with the install DVD in the drive.
 
Aqua_lung said:
Yeah osx tests the disc before installing, sometimes if you skip the test it will still install normally, so when it says "verifying disc" just choose skip to go ahead with the install, if the install fails you'll need to order new restore discs.

Also since this is a second hand mac you should run a diagnostic first, just boot your mac while holding "d" down with the install DVD in the drive.
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Verified twice now and both times it has bombed out :(

Don't reckon its worth skipping this if it can't verify the disks.

Where do I order new disks?

Thanks
 
Grimspoon said:
Verified twice now and both times it has bombed out :(

Don't reckon its worth skipping this if it can't verify the disks.

Where do I order new disks?

Thanks
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Why not do a minimal install(customize stage untick everything) and skip the verify stage though? it works for some and then when snow leopard arrives get that instead.

Not sure how to order restore discs, sorry.
 
Ok, thanks.

not really to keen to take the chance of skipping verify and end up with a Mac I can't use until I find restore discs.
 
Try this

Grimspoon said:
Edit: Eish doesn't look good, the first install bombed out saying the disk is dirty trying cleaning it, if look at the disk right on the end it has this brown almost burnt looking area, fsk know what is is but could very well be the reason. Dunno where I will get new discs if these dont work :( Giving it another try.
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You can sometimes clean up discs.

Take a bit of toothpaste dilute it and then with a clean cloth rub over the affected area -- sort of like polish it up a bit.

Sometimes you lucky and it clears and works

Otherwise try and recover as much info from the disk onto your HDD and then burn a new disc. ( Not sure if you can burn a Mac disk on a PC ??? )

You may find you are only missing a couple of files to complete the disk -- which I am sure you will be able to find :)

Anyway -- that is what I would try and do -- ( I am just an old cheapskate -- like Aqualung :D )

MW
 
lol thanks Midnight -- I will try what you have suggested.

I already tried to burn a new disc on windows, but when I pop it into my mac it cant understand the disc. So I need to burn it on the mac rather, but I cant seem to find any burining software lol :D
 
Grimspoon said:
I already tried to burn a new disc on windows, but when I pop it into my mac it cant understand the disc. So I need to burn it on the mac rather, but I cant seem to find any burining software lol :D
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It's called disc utility, you can create images, burn images, format hardrives etc, comes standard.
 
Grimspoon said:
I already tried to burn a new disc on windows, but when I pop it into my mac it cant understand the disc. So I need to burn it on the mac rather, but I cant seem to find any burining software lol :D
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To burn a disk right click in any folder or on the desktop and create a new burn folder. Place your files in there then burn it.

Im also not sure why your mac cant understand your windows burned disk, Ive never had tht problem before.
 
Johan_OSX said:
To burn a disk right click in any folder or on the desktop and create a new burn folder. Place your files in there then burn it.

Im also not sure why your mac cant understand your windows burned disk, Ive never had tht problem before.
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Thanks Johan!
 
This is pretty weird but I am trying to empty the recyle bin and it takes forever.....There is a hell of a lot of stuff in there but surely it shouldnt take this long. It says Items to delete: 63,601 and it ticks down 1 at a time verrrry slowly. Lol this could take DAYS!
 
Grimspoon said:
This is pretty weird but I am trying to empty the recyle bin and it takes forever.....There is a hell of a lot of stuff in there but surely it shouldnt take this long. It says Items to delete: 63,601 and it ticks down 1 at a time verrrry slowly. Lol this could take DAYS!
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You didnt inadvertently click on "secure empty trash" did you?
 
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