ok so I'm feeling a little bit dumb because of this...
I have a MacBook Pro Intel Core [something something] ( I got it in 2006)
I wanted to get my hands on Adobe CS5, and to run it I had to finally upgrade to OS X 10.6. I researched downloading the torrents for it and found it was pretty reliable. In trying to install once I downloaded the .dmg successfully, i ran disk utility, tried to burn to a disk but couldn't, so went to the restore tab in disk utility, and tried to run the dmg through that as the source (whether I blew that file up or not I could care less...it was worth a try). BUT then still in trying install the dmg I found somewhere where the instructions said after running through restore in disk utility, open your system preferences > go to Startup or Startup Disk > then run it. In the Startup preferences, the folder for OS X10.6 showed up next to my OS X10.4, so I selected it, and hit apply or whatever. THAT'S WHEN my trash wouldn't finish emptying, I couldn't go back into my Apple Preferences, etc. I was able to open my About This Mac under the Apple drop down, and it read that it was running 10.6. So after trying a handful of things I held down my power down to turn off my computer, thinking I would turn it back on, but when I press the power button there is no loading animated gif, and there is a brief question mark that pops up where the apple is, and after a bit there is a screen wipe of a darker gray color, and a text pops up and reads something like "You need to restart your computer. Please hold down the power button until it turns off, wait a bit then press the power back on" All I get is that repeating process.
Before all of this I backed all my stuff up, so I can care less if I have to wipe the hard drive clean. I just don't know how to do that! How can I get my Mac going again?!?!
Please!
Any help is appreciated!
-kevin
I have a MacBook Pro Intel Core [something something] ( I got it in 2006)
I wanted to get my hands on Adobe CS5, and to run it I had to finally upgrade to OS X 10.6. I researched downloading the torrents for it and found it was pretty reliable. In trying to install once I downloaded the .dmg successfully, i ran disk utility, tried to burn to a disk but couldn't, so went to the restore tab in disk utility, and tried to run the dmg through that as the source (whether I blew that file up or not I could care less...it was worth a try). BUT then still in trying install the dmg I found somewhere where the instructions said after running through restore in disk utility, open your system preferences > go to Startup or Startup Disk > then run it. In the Startup preferences, the folder for OS X10.6 showed up next to my OS X10.4, so I selected it, and hit apply or whatever. THAT'S WHEN my trash wouldn't finish emptying, I couldn't go back into my Apple Preferences, etc. I was able to open my About This Mac under the Apple drop down, and it read that it was running 10.6. So after trying a handful of things I held down my power down to turn off my computer, thinking I would turn it back on, but when I press the power button there is no loading animated gif, and there is a brief question mark that pops up where the apple is, and after a bit there is a screen wipe of a darker gray color, and a text pops up and reads something like "You need to restart your computer. Please hold down the power button until it turns off, wait a bit then press the power back on" All I get is that repeating process.
Before all of this I backed all my stuff up, so I can care less if I have to wipe the hard drive clean. I just don't know how to do that! How can I get my Mac going again?!?!
Please!Any help is appreciated!
-kevin
