Crashed partition recovery problem

From	"M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Crashed partition recovery problem
Date	2015-05-10 02:56 -0400
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<mimvda$fmu$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)

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I've got a MacBook Pro 17" (MacBook Pro 8,3) with a Snow Leopard 
partition and a Mavericks partition.  The Mavericks system developed a 
disk problem.  Disk Utility said it couldn't be repaired and to 
re-install the system off back-up (dling the os).  This was off the 
Recovery partition.  Unfortunately, I couldn't do that as I got some 
message saying I had no internet connection.  Don't know why that popped 
up but I decided to try booting from the Snow Leopard system.  That 
worked fine but the Mavericks system became unavailable.  I decided to 
wipe the Mavericks partition (Disk Util erase) and install Snow Leopard 
on it and upgrade to Mavericks using my backup along the way. 
Unfortunately, while I could install 10.6.6 off the dvd (this is a 
special system install for this machine) it would not upgrade to 10.6.8. 
  The upgrade downloads but will hang on the reboot.  I've tried it 
twice with the same result.  I even tried simply logging off the newly 
installed 10.6.6 system.  It just hung.  I'm thinking I'm just going to 
have to bite the bullet and make a Genius bar appointment but I was 
wondering if anyone had any suggestions.

It occurred to me that I might be able to install 10.10.3 by using the 
working Snow Leopard 10.6.8 system to access the app store but I believe 
that's only good for upgrading the system that accessing the app store. 
  Is that right?

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Crashed partition recovery problem "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2015-05-10 02:56 -0400
  Re: Crashed partition recovery problem JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-05-10 03:47 -0400
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem David Fritzinger <email@domain.com> - 2015-05-10 10:49 -0400
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2015-05-11 10:06 +1200
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem awoolmeyer@gmail.com - 2015-05-12 11:45 -0700
      Re: Crashed partition recovery problem Alan Baker <email@domain.com> - 2015-05-12 12:05 -0700
  Re: Crashed partition recovery problem Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-05-10 12:11 -0700
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2015-05-10 19:23 -0400
    Re: Crashed partition recovery problem "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2015-05-13 01:01 -0400
  Re: Crashed partition recovery problem "M. John Matlaw" <nouser@invalid.com> - 2015-05-10 19:13 -0400

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