ML Will not install!

[borostef]

I have downloaded ML, but when I try to install it the installer says it can not install to my system (Lion) SSD because it is beeing used as a Time machine backup HD, although I am using an external HDD for my Time machine backups.
Help, please.

 

[thefredelement]

I have downloaded ML, but when I try to install it the installer says it can not install to my system (Lion) SSD because it is beeing used as a Time machine backup HD, although I am using an external HDD for my Time machine backups.
Help, please.

Check disk utility, make sure all the partitions are good there.

 

[borostef]

What do you mean are they all ok? This is my situation...

 

[maflynn]

Did you disable TM, and/or disconnect your external drives and re-try?

 

[borostef]

Did that, did not help!

 

[borostef]

This is what I get!

 

[denisvj]

What do you mean are they all ok? This is my situation...

Do you have a sparsebundle file in your hard disk ? like the ones that Time Machine creates .

Maybe that is why the installer is thinking the disk is a backup disk.

 

[maflynn]

Is there a file Backups.backupdb at the root level on your Macintosh HD?

You may need to use the terminal, type cd / and then ls -al to see everything.

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If you see it, trash it and then retry the install.

Here's the Apple KB I found on it

 

[borostef]

Sparsebundle? Could you explain please... And if there is, how do I get rid of it?

 

[maflynn]

sparsebundle is the actual time machine back up, Backups.backupdb is the database that TM uses to manage the backups. If you remove the Backups.backupdb file the install should work. If you see a sparsebundle file, then you were using the volume for TimeMachine backups. Deleting that is deleting your backed up data (on the Macintosh HD drive).

 

[borostef]

@ maflyn
Thank you so much, that did the trick! You rule!!!