OS X :: Unable To Install Snow Leopard / Contents Of This Disk Can't Be Changed

Aug 28, 2009

I was upgrading from Tiger to Snow Leopard (I asked a worker in the Apple store and he assured me it was okay to do so) and about 15 minutes into the installation I got a message saying "Unable to install. Please retry". Then when I retried it says "The contents of this disk can't be changed. Mac OS X couldn't be installed on this disk."

I have a black MBP and it is Intel based and I fit the system requirements

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OS X :: Contents Of This Disk Can't Be Changed Mac Couldn't Be Installed On This Disk

Oct 4, 2009

I tried to install Snow Leopard.

I got the error, "The contents of this disk can't be changed. Mac OS X couldn't be installed on this disk."

I restarted, to boot from the startup disk, not the CD.

And now it just goes to the grey screen and shuts off.

Pressing "C" or "Opt - Command - P - R" or holding down the Power button for a while and then restarting, or trying "Command - V"..... none of it works.

The machine just goes to the grey screen, the wheel spins, and it turns off.

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Apr 2, 2012

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I am having a lot of trouble trying to boot from my install DVD. First of all I purchased a new HDD which came with Lion pre-installed on it. This worked fine, except when I tried to restore my latest time machine back up it used up 200GB of my disk space but nothing is restored? No doucments or music anywhere, photos, nothing. There is no change at all except half my storage has disappeared. I had posted another question on here and the reply said to use setup assistant, which I could not locate in Lion? I then tried to install Snow Leopard back over Lion but it would not let me. I tried to boot to the install disk but it just hung at the apple screen again.

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I want to do a Bootcamp install of Windows, either XP or 7.  I have two original WinXP Pro SP2 installation disks (retail, not OEM) and one set of original Win7 Ultimate installation disks, again retail. 

I did a clean install of Snow Leopard after reformatting (erasing) the hard disk, and ran software update.  Then I ran Boot Camp Assistant and created a bootcamp partition.  When I insert an installation disk and click on Start..., after a moment it ejects the disk.  Over and over.  I repeated this many times, with all of the install disks, and the results were the same.   

Except once, and only once, it actually started installing WinXP.  Per the instructions I had WinXP format the bootcamp partition, but the install hung near the end where it was trying to save settings.  Apparently this is a common scenario that some people think is related to having a USB keyboard and mouse connected, but it still hung for me even if I connected a wired keyboard and mouse.  

Lots of reports of similar problems on the web, and I tried a number of suggestions I found here and elsewhere, including:Attached an external DVD drive.  The install DVD doesn't get ejected, but I still get the folder/question mark and failure to reboot for all the installation DVDs.  I suspect that my model MBP doesn't handle booting from external optical drives very well, if at all.  Make copies of the install DVDs.  Although the copies seem to work the same as the originals on my iMac, they produce the same results using both internal and external optical drives.Made a number of different bootable USB sticks, but never found a way to have the required guid partition table at the same time as the Windows boot image, so they weren't bootable on my MacBook Pro.Installed rEFIt and tried using that to boot from USB (still not recognized as a bootable device) and from internal and external drives containing the original or copied installation DVDs. Still get the folder/question mark icon. 

Generally after clicking on Start Installation the system won't boot from the internal drive, but sometimes holding Option works; other times it just refuses to boot until I've tried it multiple times or booted from the Snow Leopard install disk and adjusted the boot record. 

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