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Hey guys,
I bought a mac mini right when they came out, 40 gig, lower end version.
It died a couple years after, I left it lying around for like another year and since I just bought a new HDTV I thought I could hook it up to there so I took it to a service center and they said my hard drive was broken. But instead of paying the ridiculous servicing fees I decided I would do it myself.
I just installed the new hard drive successfully. I put the CD that came with my new iMac expecting to install the OS. I just went to turn my old Mac Mini on and the apple logo popped up. Shortly after this screen that says "You must restart your mac, etc etc" appeared. So I did, and then the same thing happened. Again and again. Aswell as a bunch of weird scary black bars with white letters across them saying stuff about "not being able to locate driver" and at the end of the error message "We are hanging here..." and had like a date or something.
Is the problem maybe because I need an older Power PC version of Mac OSX to install on it? That would be another problem because I don't have one anymore.
Thanks
Sandy
I bought a mac mini right when they came out, 40 gig, lower end version.
It died a couple years after, I left it lying around for like another year and since I just bought a new HDTV I thought I could hook it up to there so I took it to a service center and they said my hard drive was broken. But instead of paying the ridiculous servicing fees I decided I would do it myself.
I just installed the new hard drive successfully. I put the CD that came with my new iMac expecting to install the OS. I just went to turn my old Mac Mini on and the apple logo popped up. Shortly after this screen that says "You must restart your mac, etc etc" appeared. So I did, and then the same thing happened. Again and again. Aswell as a bunch of weird scary black bars with white letters across them saying stuff about "not being able to locate driver" and at the end of the error message "We are hanging here..." and had like a date or something.
Is the problem maybe because I need an older Power PC version of Mac OSX to install on it? That would be another problem because I don't have one anymore.
Thanks
Sandy