When you took apart the mini you had to remove the superdrive cage with the drive and fan right, in that case im almost certain you did not press it back on the logic board so it makes a good connection. If you managed to correctly reassembly the computer and the drive does not appear as a CD icon when you option boot the computer im suspecting you did not reassembly the computer correctly. Im thinking it should be a DVD that got delivered with the computer, its most likely needs to be this dvd, other dvds with snow leopard might not work.
You state that you have the original Snow Leopard disk.
Unfortunately there are no recovery partition on your Snow Leopard harddrive. Once the installation of OS X on the Mac mini's disk is complete, insert it back into the Mac mini and follow the iFixit article's instructions in reverse order.
Clean install mac os x snow leopard serial number#
Your computer's serial number is sent to Apple as part of this process to help authenticate your request to download and install OS X. When you're done using your external disk, select a startup disk from System Preferences to have your Mac to start up from its built-in startup disk or another drive. After installation is finished, your Mac automatically starts up from the external drive. Your Mac might restart one or more times during installation. You've connected for this purpose, not your computer's built-in Be sure you select the external storage device You're asked to select a drive for installation, click the button Select the option to Install OS X from the Recovery window.įollow the onscreen instructions to complete the installation. If not, select a Wi-Fi network with a working Internet When the Recovery screen appears, make sure you're connected to the
If you're prompted to select a Wi-Fi network, select a network Press and hold the Command+R on your keyboard.Īfter you see an Apple logo or globe appear, you can release the Immediately after you hear the startup sound, To install OS X on an external drive using OS X Recovery, follow these steps. Then, follow these instructions from an Apple help article: Install from OS X Recovery Take out the drive of your Mac using this iFixit guide.Ĭonnect to the drive and boot into Recovery ( CMD + R) on the other Mac. This answer assumes you have access to another Mac and a way to connect your hard drive to it. Then, the white screen appears, then a black screen, then another second chime, and then back to white screen, then repeated.Īre there any more key combinations that I can try?Īlso, I am not interesting in reseating the hard drive or taking the hard drive out again. Pressing command + option + R + P to reset the PRAM results in the usual chimes. I do not have access to this cable anymore (I stopped using it in 2011 as I hadn't used it since about 10 years prior. Pressing T results in the FireWire symbol appearing. Pressing command + option + R results in nothing
Clean install mac os x snow leopard password#
Pressing option before and after the chime with the original hard drive and no boot disk, occasionally am able to select and enter the password for my wifi network on a white screen with the wifi symbol and a lov/drop down box with nearby networks, after accepting the password nothing eventuates from that point, merely a white screen, a wifi symbol and the network name - is there anyway to progress from here? Seems like best chance to proceed. Pressing C before and after chimes with boot disk inserted (original) and no boot disk, nothing Now, upon starting up, my screen is white, and has a flashing folder with a ? inside it. I used a guide on iFixit to replace my harddrive. I also have the original Snow Leopard disk. I am attempting to install OS X Snow Leopard on a new harddrive.
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