Have Lion upgrade, need to Eraise, Restore from SN disk

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I have no idea what to do.

Booting from the superdrive with sn wont allow me to erase/wipe disk.

Disk utility won't allow me to erase.

Don't know what to do.

Also what problems/solution are there for restoring from time machine?

Man I could spit nails.
 
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What Mac, MacBook Air? did yours come with a SN flash drive?

May need a trip to an Apple Service Centre near you.
 
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What Mac, MacBook Air? did yours come with a SN flash drive?

May need a trip to an Apple Service Centre near you.

I made a mistake: SN=SL Snow Leopard

I have a MacBook that came with Snow Leopard.
I purchased the Lion upgrade in July.

This macbook has been plagued with hardware problems in its 2 years. I think I have them resolved... finally, but the software is now an issue.
 
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you'll need to get it to another Mac, start it up in Target Mode and see if you can reformat from there if not, then there is a problem with the HD.
 
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you'll need to get it to another Mac, start it up in Target Mode and see if you can reformat from there if not, then there is a problem with the HD.


The hard drive was tested on in the apple store on Friday and is fine. The superdrive was replaced that day. Lion takes over a computer harddrive like an octopus with the grip of a python. That is the root of this problem.

Any ideas how to break the partition that holds the lion backup restore?
 
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If the DVDs don't work and you can't access it via Target Mode,

then you'll have to take it to an Apple Service Centre near you.
 

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