Unless you are doing a clean install of Mountain Lion there is no need to do anything. If you are installing fresh, you can re-install and use the same key but you will most likely have to phone in to activate. For more specialized help with this issue, I suggest that you contact the Office Installation and Activation Support team. I was able to install OS X Lion on my 2006 2.16 17' MacBook Pro. It was actually very easy. With Mountain Lion. To the best of my knowledge, this won't be possible because the releases of. Macs That Can’t Run Mountain Lion or Lion. If you have an iMac, MacBook, MacBook Pro, or Mac mini model that was originally released in Early/Mid 2006, the latest version of Mac OS X your system supports is Snow Leopard. The current issue is with a customers MacBook Pro, the 500GB mechanical HDD has died. Have fitted a 480GB SSD and tried using the internet recovery to install Mountain Lion. After formatting the drive and starting the install i get a timer stating its going to take -2,393,938,938 and 8 minutes.

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Hello darrellsmith,

While i currently have no solution or suggestion for your problem, i would like to mention that even though Mountain Lion technically supports your model MacBook Pro, i advise against upgrading to mountain lion. It will put significant strain on your system resources and most tasks will perform very slow. If you really do need Mountain Lion, at least upgrade your RAM to 4GB. I know that 2GB is the minimum requirements but you'll lose those 2GB by just booting up and starting Safari. Add the software you want to use on top of that and your performance will be severely impacted.

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Also, make sure you have a good backup of all your data. Upgrading an older system and skipping a major release in the process can create some issues or bring issues to light that you already had but just were not aware of.

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A possible solution could be to create a bootable installer on an external drive, instructions can be found here.

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For your system, OS X 10.6.8 would be the recommended OS and will give the smoothest performance. You will, as you've noticed, be limited to the applications you can run.