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Erased Hard Drive: Cannot Reinstall OSX!!!

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Saladsamurai

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Dec 8, 2009
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I have never had this problem before: I deleted Bootcamp partition. Repaired my hard disk and then erased my hard drive. Now I am trying to reinstall Snow Leopard and after the install starts it says: 35 minutes remaining" for about 5 minutes. Then it goes to a screen that says:

"Install Failed: Mac OSX could not be installed on your computer. The Installer could not copy the necessary support files. Click Restart to restart your computer and try installing again."

I tried restarting and installing and I get the exact same situation. I am not sure what is going on here. This MBP is less than 6 months old and this is the 1st time I have tried a reinstall on this particular machine.

Any ideas on this?
 
Intell said:
The hard drive could be failing. Why do you want to reinstall?
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What does this mean? Why would my HD be failing if the computer is brand new. I mean, it is possible, but it's given me no reason to believe that it is failing.
 
Saladsamurai said:
What does this mean? Why would my HD be failing if the computer is brand new. I mean, it is possible, but it's given me no reason to believe that it is failing.
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Hard drives can fail as soon as they are turned on for the first time, after a week of little use, after three years, or ten years. Another thing to check is your installing DVD. Is it scratched or dirty?
 
Intell said:
Hard drives can fail as soon as they are turned on for the first time, after a week of little use, after three years, or ten years. Another thing to check is your installing DVD. Is it scratched or dirty?
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Disk looks good to me. Is there a way to move the Installer from the disk to an external hard drive? I have been looking around and seeing some threads about corrupt disks. I am not sure if this would help, but I would like to try it.

OK. SO I burned a disk image to my external HDD, but now I cant figure out how to install from it?
 
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Intell said:
Hard drives can fail as soon as they are turned on for the first time, after a week of little use, after three years, or ten years. Another thing to check is your installing DVD. Is it scratched or dirty?
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Looks like you nailed it! It's officially the hard drive. Being fixed as we speak.
 
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