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Mini: Format drive with a Leopard CD/DVD? - chopper - 03-01-2008
I slid a new big hard drive in my Intel Mini today. Put the Leopard dick in and started up holding down C key. Installer stopped me as the disc is not formatted for the OS. Said to "go back" and format it. I went back a few times but I saw no way to access disc utility on the disc.
Any ideas?
I REALLY don't want to pull that drive out again.
Re: Mini: Format drive with a Leopard CD/DVD? - Jem - 03-01-2008
Does the Leopard Disc boot up all the way?
If so, the disk Utility app should appear under the "Utilities" Menu?
If the drive STILL isn't visible from Disk utility, you may have it improperly installed.
GL!
Re: Mini: Format drive with a Leopard CD/DVD? - kj - 03-01-2008
>>Put the Leopard dic in
Heh. kj.
Re: Mini: Format drive with a Leopard CD/DVD? - Ken Sp. - 03-01-2008
Leopards kill DikDik
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dik-dik
If it is an intel Mac-In Dic (disk Utility) you should format it as a GUID partition under the partition tab
Re: Mini: Format drive with a Leopard CD/DVD? - chopper - 03-01-2008
It goes past the languages, then it shows the drive with an exclamation point by it, says it can't install Leopard on that drive formatted wrong. Says go back. There is no where to go back and do anything from there that I can see.
Re: Mini: Format drive with a Leopard CD/DVD? - Golfer - 03-01-2008
Once past the languages window, the next window should have a menu bar across the top of the screen. One of those menus is entitled "Utilities". Do you have that? Click on it and the drop down menu should have Disk Utility listed in it.
Re: Mini: Format drive with a Leopard CD/DVD? - Mark (nonick) - 03-02-2008
You may need to repartition it as GUID with Disk Utility. I had to do this when I put a 250gb Western Digital drive into my mini. One of the menus in he OSX installer will open Disk Utility.
Re: Mini: Format drive with a Leopard CD/DVD? - lost in space - 03-02-2008
What Mark (nonick) said. The installer goes too far IMO before telling you it can't do the install. And, true there's nowhere to back up to.
Re: Mini: Format drive with a Leopard CD/DVD? - RAMd®d - 03-02-2008
What Mark said, II.
Once you launch Disk Utility, click on the Partition tab, select 1 Partition and you'll see the Option button.
Click that, and select GUID partition. After that, it should go swimmingly, though not really quickly.
Re: Mini: Format drive with a Leopard CD/DVD? - chopper - 03-02-2008
Okay, found it. Ack I am blind! Thanks to all.