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Clean Install is not going right...Please Help!
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<blockquote data-quote="Dogbreath" data-source="post: 1522902" data-attributes="member: 171258"><p>Hi Again...The clean install was futile. It did OK for a littl while, but the beach balls starting coming more frequently and Onyx and zapping pram/nvram only worked for a day or two. it turned out the hdd had bad sectors. The Apple Store has it at the moment replacing the hdd. Thank goodness I purchased Apple Care and it ends in August...whew! Also, I purchased Carbon Copy Cloner and made a full back up two days before the hdd finally gave up the ghost. I requested the techs at the Apple Store to allow me to install the OS since I want to stay with SL 10.6.8 and do a clean install of the OS and all apps in case these may have been corrupted on both TM and CCC. The only question I have is how might I omit loading all the printer drivers that come with the OS installation? I do not want or need all those drivers and they take up space. Also, the applications disc has Garage Band 9 and I don't want it on there because I know I had Garage Band 11. Last time I had to uninstall GB 9 and dl GB 11 from the App Store. GB did not come on my Mac Mini when I purchased it new. I bought GB from the App Atore...but during my last clean install I bought OS 10.6 disc from A[pple although I had my original disc and when I ran the combo updater it put GB 9 on there! Any help, answers, or comments? Thanks in advance.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dogbreath, post: 1522902, member: 171258"] Hi Again...The clean install was futile. It did OK for a littl while, but the beach balls starting coming more frequently and Onyx and zapping pram/nvram only worked for a day or two. it turned out the hdd had bad sectors. The Apple Store has it at the moment replacing the hdd. Thank goodness I purchased Apple Care and it ends in August...whew! Also, I purchased Carbon Copy Cloner and made a full back up two days before the hdd finally gave up the ghost. I requested the techs at the Apple Store to allow me to install the OS since I want to stay with SL 10.6.8 and do a clean install of the OS and all apps in case these may have been corrupted on both TM and CCC. The only question I have is how might I omit loading all the printer drivers that come with the OS installation? I do not want or need all those drivers and they take up space. Also, the applications disc has Garage Band 9 and I don't want it on there because I know I had Garage Band 11. Last time I had to uninstall GB 9 and dl GB 11 from the App Store. GB did not come on my Mac Mini when I purchased it new. I bought GB from the App Atore...but during my last clean install I bought OS 10.6 disc from A[pple although I had my original disc and when I ran the combo updater it put GB 9 on there! Any help, answers, or comments? Thanks in advance. [/QUOTE]
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