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Reinstalling OX Snow Leopard Fails
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<blockquote data-quote="RavingMac" data-source="post: 1360490" data-attributes="member: 45350"><p>The fact that reformatting worked seems to indicate all the hardware and connections are working, and probably not jumper settings or something like that (though may be worth checking anyway). Have seen some recent posts where similar problems resulted from cable failure, but in that case Disk Utility wouldn't see the drive. </p><p></p><p>You mentioned partitioning, this is probably a basic question but feeling for possible solution here, did you choose GUID as the partition? That is (as you probably know) what is required for Intel Macs as opposed to APM for PowerPC Macs.</p><p></p><p>EDIT: You said the disks came with your MacBook Pro. I am assuming from that and the age that you bought it new, rather than used. If used, there is always the potential the seller didn't give you the right OS disks for your Mac (happens a lot with used Macs).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RavingMac, post: 1360490, member: 45350"] The fact that reformatting worked seems to indicate all the hardware and connections are working, and probably not jumper settings or something like that (though may be worth checking anyway). Have seen some recent posts where similar problems resulted from cable failure, but in that case Disk Utility wouldn't see the drive. You mentioned partitioning, this is probably a basic question but feeling for possible solution here, did you choose GUID as the partition? That is (as you probably know) what is required for Intel Macs as opposed to APM for PowerPC Macs. EDIT: You said the disks came with your MacBook Pro. I am assuming from that and the age that you bought it new, rather than used. If used, there is always the potential the seller didn't give you the right OS disks for your Mac (happens a lot with used Macs). [/QUOTE]
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