So my friend upgraded his iMac from leopard to snow leopard and it became insanely slow. Basically you couldn't do anything on it. So I decided to just do a clean install of lion instead. I erased the hard drive, and booted from the cd. Everything looked good except it is taking forever. I started it last night around 10:30pm, and it is just now on the install part. It isn't frozen because the progress bar does change. It said it had 15min at 11am and now(730) it says 6 min. left. What in the world is going on with this thing? Should I just let it continue to do its thing? Thanks for any help you can provide.
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Lion install problem?
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So 24 hours later it finally completed the install and everything. I ran the permissions, and verify disk. It moved a little faster when I finished that but once I rebooted it is now slow again. I tried some new memory I had and that didn't help. So could this be a harddrive issue? i thought for sure it was the snow leopard install since all this started right after that. How do I know if it is hd issue? Thanks
I can't remember what year it is. White Imac 2.2GHZ core duo, now has 4gb of memory (orginally came with 2GB, 120GB hd or 160. That is all I remember off the top of my head. If you need exact specs i can get those later tonight.
Hmm, it should run Lion, albeit not that quickly, it is an older Mac. 4GB is okay, 8 would be better, but it's not a deal breaker...The HDD @ 160GB isn't going far, but should install fine. How is it progressing now?
Thats what I thought. He is only using about 15gb of the space anyways. Like I said earlier all this started with the upgrade to snow leopard. I have read where others were having slow machines just doing the upgrade so I thought the clean install would fix the issues. So frustrating. Once you click on something you have to wait from 45 sec to 2min for something to open. It isn't specific to one or two programs either.
It could be symptomatic of a bad HDD too...I guess you have nothing to lose by trying really...You could run diagnostics on the drive to see, but it's a little old...Hard to be more specific I'm afraid.
I don't mind replacing the HD I just want to be sure it will fix it if I spend the money on it. How do you run diagnostics on the HD? Will a problem always show up if there really is one? Thanks for your help
