Fresh install problems. 2007 late macbook with snow leopard

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flamingpo0p

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So I am a macnoob, there i said it. I am trying to install a retail copy of snow leopard 10.6.3 family pack on a freshly wiped hdd. The macbook won't boot from the dvd, but will from my other macbook's(just wont install). All I get is either a) blinking folder b) white screen with a cursor c) white screen.

Can anyone out there help me, I've lost a lot of sleep over this and would really appreciate it.

SAVE ME!
 
when holding c on restart the screen stays white for a while, then eventually spits out the dvd and begins to flash a folder with a ? on it.
 
Use the other Mac connect the Mac Book in Target Disk Mode and mount it onto the other Mac Book's desktop. Then use Disk Utility (/Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility) on that other Mac. Repair the permissions and Repair the disk. Then reformat that disk and while it is still mounted use that other Mac to install OS X on the mounted disk.

See if this helps.
 
Is there another way around using Target Disk Mode other than Firewire? I have firewire on that model but on the newer mac's I do not.
 
From what I've read people say target disk mode can only be achieved through firewire. Is it worth me buying a usb cable just to try this out?
 
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I can boot while using my 2008 macbooks disc, I'm able to get access to my wireless is there anyway i can use this to my advantage?
 
Has anyone seen what before?
If you can boot to the installer for the newer MacBook (it won't install on the older one, only on the model that it came with), but simply spits out the commercial family pack disk, then that family pack disk may be bad. Try wiping it with a clean, soft cloth, and try again. If you know that family pack disk is OK (try it in a different Mac, eh?), and will boot another Mac, then try a CD/DVD cleaning disk, or simply blow into the slot with a can-o-air.
 
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How about creating a disk image of the Mac OS X installer disc - if you have e.g. an iPod or a portable hard drive that you could store it on?
Then plug that to the older MacBook. Even if the optical drive wouldn't want to cooperate with you on that Mac, it should still be able to detect a bootable/install image on another drive.
 
Delta,

well I tried blowing out the drive with compressed air, and nothing. The strange thing is it reads my new macbook's install dvd and will boot from that. But I can boot from the snow leopard dvd on my new macbook. So It seems like the snow leopard dvd is good, and it also looks like the drive on the '07 is working if it boots from the other dvd (just wont install but thats not the problem.)

Giaguara,
Would an Iphone work for that?
 
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