someone please help.
i tried downloading lion today from the app store and it took 3 attempts and 5 hours to do it.
then when i finally did download it the install failed, and i was left in a continuous loop of a grey install screen, and a error screen with my only option being to restart.
so i tried putting in the OSX snow leopard disc and going in to disc utilities and repairing the disc, but now i have no idea how to get out of the snow leopard disc utility boot disc. and now i am told that i cannot boot from 'macintosh hd,' when i try to install snow leopard.
so i cant install leopard, and lion in stuck and i cannot boot to my mac.
edit.. so now i force restarted and held ALT and got the option to boot (?) from mac HD now leopard disc and something else, which i think is the lion installer, so i clicked it and now im left at a grey screen with INSTALLING on it and a bar with no status or anything.
what have i done now??
what do i do??
i am a total newbie to macs, and have no idea where to start with this.
i dont even know how to eject the osx snow leopard disc.
anyone??
i tried downloading lion today from the app store and it took 3 attempts and 5 hours to do it.
then when i finally did download it the install failed, and i was left in a continuous loop of a grey install screen, and a error screen with my only option being to restart.
so i tried putting in the OSX snow leopard disc and going in to disc utilities and repairing the disc, but now i have no idea how to get out of the snow leopard disc utility boot disc. and now i am told that i cannot boot from 'macintosh hd,' when i try to install snow leopard.
so i cant install leopard, and lion in stuck and i cannot boot to my mac.
edit.. so now i force restarted and held ALT and got the option to boot (?) from mac HD now leopard disc and something else, which i think is the lion installer, so i clicked it and now im left at a grey screen with INSTALLING on it and a bar with no status or anything.
what have i done now??
what do i do??
i am a total newbie to macs, and have no idea where to start with this.
i dont even know how to eject the osx snow leopard disc.
anyone??
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