my 20" intel imac is taking an estimated 29 hours for a clean install of leopard...
whats your guess?
wanna die
dan
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wanna die
dan
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the 29 hour leopard install....WTF!?
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Clean as in a wiped hard drive? doesn't sound right at all, I would have restarted the sucker after the first hour if there was no progress and started again. 
250 gig hdd 60% full started acting up
slow read and writes and apps
hickups while playing music in itunes
let alone me intensive apps
mostly spinning wheel and clow click responses
i suspected hdd failure after i looked for mem hogs and cpu drains in activity monitor
so a reinstall was attempted
and here we are
slow read and writes and apps
hickups while playing music in itunes
let alone me intensive apps
mostly spinning wheel and clow click responses
i suspected hdd failure after i looked for mem hogs and cpu drains in activity monitor
so a reinstall was attempted
and here we are
sory i had a huge post written and my browser crashed
it went into all the trouble shooting attempts to find out why my imac was starting to slow so considerably,,
at first i thought the drive was too full
even though there was 30% free so i freed up some space
than i thouhgt a ram or cpu hog
neither
than permissions or os corruption
so thats where the reinstall comes in
and now this
there was no hdd noise at all so thats got me kinda stumped
what might i be over looking?
hdd controller
bad ram <both stickes showed in about this mac>?
???
it went into all the trouble shooting attempts to find out why my imac was starting to slow so considerably,,
at first i thought the drive was too full
even though there was 30% free so i freed up some space
than i thouhgt a ram or cpu hog
neither
than permissions or os corruption
so thats where the reinstall comes in
and now this
there was no hdd noise at all so thats got me kinda stumped
what might i be over looking?
hdd controller
bad ram <both stickes showed in about this mac>?
???
My friend has this kind of problem before. She upgraded - notice the word upgraded - from Tiger to Leopard and apparently there were some conflicts with certain files. I run the maintenance program like Onyx and run the automated maintenance procedure...
BUT... Since you have put the DVD in and probably have wiped out your HD, you should concentrate in reinstalling Leopard... Did you do Erase and Install or Archive and Install? I suggest that you do Erase and Install (Warning: This will wipe the whole data in your HD, make sure you have backup before proceeding)..
i backed up and erased and install
i tried onyX to fix permissions and tried a few other things in the app but nothing sped up the operation of the imac
i tried onyX to fix permissions and tried a few other things in the app but nothing sped up the operation of the imac
so the install finally finished kinda, it froze when trying to restore from a time machine back up so I held the power button and it booted up as if it was the first time with the typical leopard movie intro and owner regestration
It seems to be acting as it was previous to the reformat !
sluggish disc reads abd general operation
I went to disc utility and it took forever to gather disc information!
Is this typical hd failure symptoms
what else could be the cause?
What else?
Please add any thoughts your help will be awesome!
It seems to be acting as it was previous to the reformat !
sluggish disc reads abd general operation
I went to disc utility and it took forever to gather disc information!
Is this typical hd failure symptoms
what else could be the cause?
What else?
Please add any thoughts your help will be awesome!