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Info: iMac 2009, 20 inch, 8 GB ram, ~300 GB Hard drive
Alright, for an application I needed, it needed the XCode developer tools from apple. I downloaded it, and started installing it. Before it was finished with a step of the installing process, after i was done with the manual input, it told me that i needed to close iTunes, which I had left open. I closed it, but the warning message continued. I tried my best to make it go away and to continue the installation, but it didn't work. So I ended up Force Quitting installer. The warning message stayed after i quit installer also. Then I logged out to remove the message, and logged back in to try and re-install it. It got up to the select the disc part of the installation, and when It finished examining additional disks, it selected the Macintosh HD, and then it immediately crashed. When it booted up, it took about 5 times as long to start up, but even then, it just showed a bunch of random code I didn't understand overlaid the white screen with the apple logo and the spinning gear, and the computer crashed again. It kept on doing the cycle of restarting and crashing until I stopped it. I tried starting up the computer off both of my installation discs, 1.5.6, and 1.7.3 versions, both of them booted succesfully, but on the reinstalling phase it said that Mac OSX cannot be installed on this hard drive. The disc utility said the hard drive was fine. It offered that it would reinstall OSX if the hard drive was erased, but there is information on there I can't lose. Im just wondering if there is something easy I can do at home, or if i need to take it to a professional.
Alright, for an application I needed, it needed the XCode developer tools from apple. I downloaded it, and started installing it. Before it was finished with a step of the installing process, after i was done with the manual input, it told me that i needed to close iTunes, which I had left open. I closed it, but the warning message continued. I tried my best to make it go away and to continue the installation, but it didn't work. So I ended up Force Quitting installer. The warning message stayed after i quit installer also. Then I logged out to remove the message, and logged back in to try and re-install it. It got up to the select the disc part of the installation, and when It finished examining additional disks, it selected the Macintosh HD, and then it immediately crashed. When it booted up, it took about 5 times as long to start up, but even then, it just showed a bunch of random code I didn't understand overlaid the white screen with the apple logo and the spinning gear, and the computer crashed again. It kept on doing the cycle of restarting and crashing until I stopped it. I tried starting up the computer off both of my installation discs, 1.5.6, and 1.7.3 versions, both of them booted succesfully, but on the reinstalling phase it said that Mac OSX cannot be installed on this hard drive. The disc utility said the hard drive was fine. It offered that it would reinstall OSX if the hard drive was erased, but there is information on there I can't lose. Im just wondering if there is something easy I can do at home, or if i need to take it to a professional.
