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Ah, I thought you said you could safe-boot.

If you can completely boot up with the Snow Leopard DVD, then it may indeed be your internal HD going bad. After booting from the CD, you should be able to go up to the Utilities menu and run Disk Utility to check things out in a little more detail.

To get the DVD back out if things go sideways, you can either reboot and hold the eject key (or press it repeatedly, as I usually end up doing), or hold the mouse button down (if that old floppy trick still works?). Last resort: Use the paper clip hole trick after powering back down. Basically, there are a few ways to safely get the disc out. No worries.

G

On 15 Sep 2011, at 1:39 PM, Ron Dragotta wrote:

> Hi Glenn, how you doing? Right now when I try to boot up this is what I get:
>
> - the normal tone
>
> - can hear and feel 'something' working
>
> - just a black screen, nothing else
>
> Can always load my SL install DVD in there on start up but will never be
> able to get it out, I'm pretty sure of that. And if something is being read,
> there is no display.
>
> When I do a hard shut down, all you here is feeble sound when it powers off.
> Also no power light when it's powered on, but I know it's on. Like I said
> can feel it and faintly here something trying to work.
>
> At this point I'm guess this thing is KIA. Will probably have to replace the
> hard drive. Good thing I'm backed up to a good extent. Basically photos and
> music. Quicken is on a flash drive all by itself and can just be downloaded
> again, everything else is basically 'in the clouds'.
>
> Maybe an omen. Maybe MacBook Air time.
>
> Any other input appreciated...this was my first Mac, expected more but the
> problem was not doing a clean install of Lion, my fault there. Did not load
> Lion on my wife's MacBook, so have that and also a 3-year old Tosh I can use
> as a band aid.
>
> Thanks...
>
> Ron
>
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:16 PM, Glenn Gutierrez <yah@glenngutierrez.com>wrote:
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>> **
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>>
>> On 15 Sep 2011, at 11:47 AM, Ron wrote:
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>>> - I was able to boot up in safe mode and also re-install mode. When in
>> reinstall mode I tried to do a disc repair, but it came back saying "keys
>> out of order. Then "disc can not be repaired". I tried to reinstall Lion but
>> got no further than "disk locked."
>>
>> That points to your Lion install, unfortunately. There is no official DVD
>> installer for Lion, only a way to dig in and grab a restoration disc image.
>> I have no idea if that would be useful for a fresh Lion install or not. The
>> disc itself may even be corrupt (probably not, but it's possible).
>>
>> It's also possible that Lion was working fine, but something else in your
>> system from pre-Lion didn't so much like the Lion. Completely clean installs
>> are usually recommended right now, from what I've seen. As a pro-audio guy,
>> I can't upgrade yet because too many 3rd party things don't play nice with
>> the king of the jungle.
>>
>> Have you tried booting from your Snow Leopard disc, then seeing if you can
>> get anywhere from there?
>>
>> G
>>
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