Greets to all,
Yes it is me again, the Tenacious WebDevii, I have an issue here that has totally bamboozled me. I have 2 iMac 2010 27" units. Serial Numbers as follows:
YD04509YDB6
YD0426U1DB6
Just so whoever may want to try and tackle this issue you can know all the info about the machines I am working on.
Now to the problem, I acquired these from the owner of a computer recycling company, he wanted me to get them running with OS-X Leopard or Snow Leopard. I chose Snow Leopard because that is the only version I have.
Before I start working on any machine I give it a once over to see whats up. Here goes, I turn machine #1 on and it boots directly to Windows 7, I then try and boot with the option key down and notice there is only one (1) partition, there is no bootcamp partition, no OS-X partition, just one partition that says untitled 1 which is the windows 7 install I am assuming. Now I insert a SL install DVD into the super drive, hold down option, find the Install DVD double click on it, the screen goes white with the grey apple in the center, nothing else, no spinning gear you know the wait symbol, that is not there. Ok I am assuming at this point that the optical drive could have gone sideways, I go to my Mac Pro which has SL installed running fine, I make an install image and put it on a 16GB Flash Drive, insert it into the iMac USB port, once again holding down the Option Key till the boot screen appears, I see the USB Thumb Drive, I double click on it, same thing, white screen with grey apple and no "I am Busy" notifier the spinner thingy.
Now I am getting ******, So I take and start the iMac (broken machine) in Target Drive Mode, holding down the 'T' key to invoke this mode, I plug in my Firewire 800 cable between the iMac (broken machine) to my MacPro (working Machine), and fire up the working Mac Pro, I see the iMac's system drive mounted on the desktop, I open the Disk utility and select the iMac's boot drive not the partition but the drive itself, I erase it as Mac Journaled and Partition it as GUID. I insert the OS-X 10.6 SL install DVD into the Mac Pro (good working machine) and proceed with installing SL on the Target iMac. It does the normal stuff I let it restart now I am running SL from the iMac drive via Target Drive Mode just fine. I shut down both machines, disconnect the Firewire cable go to fire up the iMac I hold down the option key because now I am thinking I have a good install on the iMac hard drive, I select it by double clicking it, and same crap, I get a white screen with a grey apple and no spinner of waiting. I let it sit for a good hour, just to be sure I am being patient enough. but same thing no bootie. I have been hearing thru the grapevine that the iMac drive being it had only windows on it the old owner jacked it up in such a way it needs to be hard formatted.
If anyone can shed a bit of light on this problem I would greatly appreciate it, Oh incidently remember back in the beginning of this post where I mentioned 2 of these iMacs, same exact problem with the other one, it had windows 7 only no bootcamp partition no osx partition nothing, it was like this one boot right up into windows no problem, but when I attempt to install from any install medium inserted directly into the iMac's it goes no where, the only way I have a chance of attacking the drive in either machine is by invoking Target Drive Mode by Firewire 800.
Thank You all in advance, These are in full warranty but since the Mac shop in my area is closed on the weekends I wanted to try and solve this myself.
So H E L P !!!! Anyone Please
Thank you in advance
ps my email is [email protected] if you want to privately communicate with me.
Dev
Yes it is me again, the Tenacious WebDevii, I have an issue here that has totally bamboozled me. I have 2 iMac 2010 27" units. Serial Numbers as follows:
YD04509YDB6
YD0426U1DB6
Just so whoever may want to try and tackle this issue you can know all the info about the machines I am working on.
Now to the problem, I acquired these from the owner of a computer recycling company, he wanted me to get them running with OS-X Leopard or Snow Leopard. I chose Snow Leopard because that is the only version I have.
Before I start working on any machine I give it a once over to see whats up. Here goes, I turn machine #1 on and it boots directly to Windows 7, I then try and boot with the option key down and notice there is only one (1) partition, there is no bootcamp partition, no OS-X partition, just one partition that says untitled 1 which is the windows 7 install I am assuming. Now I insert a SL install DVD into the super drive, hold down option, find the Install DVD double click on it, the screen goes white with the grey apple in the center, nothing else, no spinning gear you know the wait symbol, that is not there. Ok I am assuming at this point that the optical drive could have gone sideways, I go to my Mac Pro which has SL installed running fine, I make an install image and put it on a 16GB Flash Drive, insert it into the iMac USB port, once again holding down the Option Key till the boot screen appears, I see the USB Thumb Drive, I double click on it, same thing, white screen with grey apple and no "I am Busy" notifier the spinner thingy.
Now I am getting ******, So I take and start the iMac (broken machine) in Target Drive Mode, holding down the 'T' key to invoke this mode, I plug in my Firewire 800 cable between the iMac (broken machine) to my MacPro (working Machine), and fire up the working Mac Pro, I see the iMac's system drive mounted on the desktop, I open the Disk utility and select the iMac's boot drive not the partition but the drive itself, I erase it as Mac Journaled and Partition it as GUID. I insert the OS-X 10.6 SL install DVD into the Mac Pro (good working machine) and proceed with installing SL on the Target iMac. It does the normal stuff I let it restart now I am running SL from the iMac drive via Target Drive Mode just fine. I shut down both machines, disconnect the Firewire cable go to fire up the iMac I hold down the option key because now I am thinking I have a good install on the iMac hard drive, I select it by double clicking it, and same crap, I get a white screen with a grey apple and no spinner of waiting. I let it sit for a good hour, just to be sure I am being patient enough. but same thing no bootie. I have been hearing thru the grapevine that the iMac drive being it had only windows on it the old owner jacked it up in such a way it needs to be hard formatted.
If anyone can shed a bit of light on this problem I would greatly appreciate it, Oh incidently remember back in the beginning of this post where I mentioned 2 of these iMacs, same exact problem with the other one, it had windows 7 only no bootcamp partition no osx partition nothing, it was like this one boot right up into windows no problem, but when I attempt to install from any install medium inserted directly into the iMac's it goes no where, the only way I have a chance of attacking the drive in either machine is by invoking Target Drive Mode by Firewire 800.
Thank You all in advance, These are in full warranty but since the Mac shop in my area is closed on the weekends I wanted to try and solve this myself.
So H E L P !!!! Anyone Please
Thank you in advance
ps my email is [email protected] if you want to privately communicate with me.
Dev