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Mini: Format drive with a Leopard CD/DVD?
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03-01-2008, 11:21 PM
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.
03-01-2008, 11:30 PM
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!
03-01-2008, 11:44 PM
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
03-01-2008, 11:45 PM
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.
03-01-2008, 11:49 PM
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.
03-02-2008, 12:26 AM
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.
03-02-2008, 02:05 AM
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.
03-02-2008, 02:54 AM
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. |
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