This is a strange one for me. It's my 24" Aluminum iMac 7,1 (late 2007 I think) 4gb RAM (Crucial memory).
It starts with my HDD beachballing like crazy and not being able to do anything, so I just restore from Time Machine. Fixed, for about 3 days then back to the beachballs and delays.
So I try and determine if the HDD is dying or not and Target Mode my iMac onto my iBook and my iMac internal loads and is acting perfectly normal. So now I know the HDD is working fine and I just erase the drive and go to reinstall 10.6 from disk, no go, gets about 30% done and then says "Failed to install: could not install certain components". So I try my 10.5 Factory disks and same thing happens.
Anyway, so I just went ahead and installed 10.6 onto one of my externals just to get the thing running and everything seems fine with this. So I am not able to say its a particular hardware issue.
I am really open to suggestion on how to get 10.6, or even 10.5, loaded back onto my internal HDD. I have run the hardware diagnostics from my Factory disks and it had no problems.
Help!
It starts with my HDD beachballing like crazy and not being able to do anything, so I just restore from Time Machine. Fixed, for about 3 days then back to the beachballs and delays.
So I try and determine if the HDD is dying or not and Target Mode my iMac onto my iBook and my iMac internal loads and is acting perfectly normal. So now I know the HDD is working fine and I just erase the drive and go to reinstall 10.6 from disk, no go, gets about 30% done and then says "Failed to install: could not install certain components". So I try my 10.5 Factory disks and same thing happens.
Anyway, so I just went ahead and installed 10.6 onto one of my externals just to get the thing running and everything seems fine with this. So I am not able to say its a particular hardware issue.
I am really open to suggestion on how to get 10.6, or even 10.5, loaded back onto my internal HDD. I have run the hardware diagnostics from my Factory disks and it had no problems.
Help!