I have an Apple official 10.7 USB installer memory stick you’re welcome to borrow (given that you’ve purchased it on the App Store). You can use it to wipe the internal drive and install 10.7 from scratch.
Regards Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 22 Nov 2016, at 17:27, Ben Rubinstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm trying to set up a MacBook 4,1 as a replacement for a dead MacBook 7,1: > originally trying to take the internal drive from the dead laptop and move it > directly into the replacement. > > However, installing a new version of MacOS on the drive ran into the sand, so > I took Sam's advice, and bought a new drive; installed Snow Leopard from a > DVD, migrating user accounts etc from the old drive - all worked fine. I ran > System update twice until it said everything was updated that could be. Now > it was on 10.6.8, and had all the data from dead laptop, happy as could be. > > Then I attempted to update from Snow Leopard (10.6) to Lion (10.7). I logged > into the App Store on the machine - I've bought 10.7 before so it offers it > for download again. When I run the "Install Mac OS X Lion" app it runs, says > it is complete, restarts the machine... and then shows the 'no entry' sign > and shuts down. Now the machine is unbootable. > > I can boot off the Snow Leopard DVD and repair the install, it's back to > 10.6. Run the "Install Mac OS X Lion" app again, same issue. > > So I have three drives > drive A, 160GB, has 10.7.5, was original internal drive > drive B, 250GB, no longer has working System, came from dead laptop > drive C, 320GB, has 10.6.8, currently internal drive > > I can still boot the machine from drive A, mounted externally. (Just for fun, > I tried booting from drive A, then running "Install Mac OS X Lion" and > directing it at drive C again... same result, it doesn't report any issues, > says it has successfully completed the installation, but the machine won't > boot.) > > Everything suggests this should be possible, but in practise it just doesn't > work. Is there something else I should try? Or am I just doomed to either > stick at 10.6, or get a newer old laptop? > > TIA, > > Ben > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
