I was wondering if anyone could provide a little bit of help and advice with a used 24" iMac "Core 2 Duo" 3.06 (Early 2008) I bought recently.
The computer had no hard drive so I fitted a Samsung drive that had previously been used in a PC. if I try to power up from the HDD it asks about a Windows installation that hasn't shut down properly, crashes and restarts, in a loop. This isn't really surprising because I literally took it out of my PC and plugged it into the iMac as I was hoping to reformat the drive.
My plan was to boot OSX Snow Leopard from a USB flash drive. When I try this I get the Apple logo and the spinning icon, but then that will just freeze and I can't restart or switch off the system unless I unplug the power cord.
Does any of this sound familiar? Little bit vague at this stage, but does anyone have any suggestions as to where I could be having a problem?
The computer had no hard drive so I fitted a Samsung drive that had previously been used in a PC. if I try to power up from the HDD it asks about a Windows installation that hasn't shut down properly, crashes and restarts, in a loop. This isn't really surprising because I literally took it out of my PC and plugged it into the iMac as I was hoping to reformat the drive.
My plan was to boot OSX Snow Leopard from a USB flash drive. When I try this I get the Apple logo and the spinning icon, but then that will just freeze and I can't restart or switch off the system unless I unplug the power cord.
Does any of this sound familiar? Little bit vague at this stage, but does anyone have any suggestions as to where I could be having a problem?
