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Yakuza

Yakuza

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Hey guys

So here's the thing. I have an iMac i5, and there was this Apple program for replacing faulty (or possible faulty) HDD.

I went to a official representative and they have replaced it. They installed Lion with one of their copies and with the installations steps they had to define a name and password for. When they gave me they said if the computer asked for some sort of password, and they gave me the password, and they told me if i wanted to change the name, and i did.

But the there are certain programs/parts that appear the name that they gave.

The thing is i want to make a clean install and install my copy, i have SL cd but every time i reboot and press c, nothing happens. When i reboot and press ALT i choose the cd and the iMac just freezes. With the os x running if i click (with cd on it) the "Install Mac OS X" it appears the message

"You can't use this version of the application Instal Mac OS X with this version of Mac OS X. - you have install mac os x 23.1."

I am now downloading Lion from my app store, to try a clean install.

Anyway, does anyone knows what that message means? i have done it in the passed and now i can't.

Take you in advanced
 
Yakuza said:
Hey guys

So here's the thing. I have an iMac i5, and there was this Apple program for replacing faulty (or possible faulty) HDD.

I went to a official representative and they have replaced it. They installed Lion with one of their copies and with the installations steps they had to define a name and password for. When they gave me they said if the computer asked for some sort of password, and they gave me the password, and they told me if i wanted to change the name, and i did.

But the there are certain programs/parts that appear the name that they gave.

The thing is i want to make a clean install and install my copy, i have SL cd but every time i reboot and press c, nothing happens. When i reboot and press ALT i choose the cd and the iMac just freezes. With the os x running if i click (with cd on it) the "Install Mac OS X" it appears the message

"You can't use this version of the application Instal Mac OS X with this version of Mac OS X. - you have install mac os x 23.1."

I am now downloading Lion from my app store, to try a clean install.

Anyway, does anyone knows what that message means? i have done it in the passed and now i can't.

Take you in advanced
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What model iMac do you have, without it we can just guess.

If it is a newer one you probably can't install Snow Leopard, maybe you can but needs a minimum SL version, so tell us the iMacs model number, serial is also sufficient.
 
If you're trying to install Snow Leopard on the Mac that is in your signature you'll not be able too.

The mac in your sig is too new for Snow Leopard, that version of OSX does not have the device drivers required for the newer machines.

If you want to reinstall OSX on a newer mac reboot the machine and hold the cmd-r key to get into the recovery partition. From there you can erase the drive from Disk Utility and then reinstall the OS.
 
maflynn said:
If you're trying to install Snow Leopard on the Mac that is in your signature you'll not be able too.

The mac in your sig is too new for Snow Leopard, that version of OSX does not have the device drivers required for the newer machines.

If you want to reinstall OSX on a newer mac reboot the machine and hold the cmd-r key to get into the recovery partition. From there you can erase the drive from Disk Utility and then reinstall the OS.
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how can that be if i had SL installed in this iMac, it's from early/mid 2010.

I had SL and upgraded to Lion.

Is it because in this HDD the only OS installed was Lion?
 
maflynn said:
If you're trying to install Snow Leopard on the Mac that is in your signature you'll not be able too.

The mac in your sig is too new for Snow Leopard, that version of OSX does not have the device drivers required for the newer machines.

If you want to reinstall OSX on a newer mac reboot the machine and hold the cmd-r key to get into the recovery partition. From there you can erase the drive from Disk Utility and then reinstall the OS.
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There is only a hint of an i5 iMac, they came out in 2009 and 2010 and 2011, all capable of running Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard. The 2012 iMacs are the first not able to run Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.
Yakuza said:
how can that be if i had SL installed in this iMac, it's from early/mid 2010.

I had SL and upgraded to Lion.

Is it because in this HDD the only OS installed was Lion?
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I guess you use the grey Restore DVDs that came with your iMac?
 
Yakuza said:
how can that be if i had SL installed in this iMac, it's from early/mid 2010.

I had SL and upgraded to Lion.

Is it because in this HDD the only OS installed was Lion?
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Both are minimum 10.6.3 so if you have a disk with 10.6.0-10.6.2 it won't work, see screenshot
 

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justperry said:
Both are minimum 10.6.3 so if you have a disk with 10.6.0-10.6.2 it won't work, see screenshot
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Since it is a special built of 10.6.3, no Upgrade DVD will work, as they all came with 10.6.3 only. An Upgrade DVD with 10.6.4 should work, but I haven't come around one yet.
 
hi all,

i've been busy, and haven't received the notifications.

I found out why i was getting that message, the disks i was using weren't the original disks lolol

I found the original disks, but haven't installed it yet

Thanks
 
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