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<blockquote data-quote="hermes_25" data-source="post: 1029568" data-attributes="member: 149851">Hello:13&quot; Macbook running Snow Leopard bought off craigslist about a month ago. It made a loud whirring noise, started acting weirdly and we pushed the power button to turn it off. Upon restarting all we got is the blue/grey screen.I've tried every startup key combination to no avail. Using a PC and an old mac I formatted an external HD according to these instructions: <a href="http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/02/install-snow-leopard-from-external-firewire-or-usb-hard-drive-or-how-to-upgrade-to-106-without-a-dvd-drive/" target="_blank">Install Snow Leopard from External Firewire or USB Hard Drive, or How to Upgrade to 10.6 Without a DVD Drive - OS X Daily</a> and holding down the option key I DO see the external HD but when I click on the little arrow underneath it nothing happens.Two questions:1: When I hold down option on startup I ONLY see the external HD plugged into the laptop and nothing else. Would I normally also see the internal HD? Does this suggest that the laptop's HD is dead, or the connection to the HD is perhaps dead?2: If I formatted the external HD incorrectly and it's not bootable would it still show up when I start up with the &quot;option&quot; key pressed? Or does it suggest that it is indeed bootable - the fact that it shows up in the &quot;option&quot; list?Thanks very much.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hermes_25, post: 1029568, member: 149851"] Hello: 13" Macbook running Snow Leopard bought off craigslist about a month ago. It made a loud whirring noise, started acting weirdly and we pushed the power button to turn it off. Upon restarting all we got is the blue/grey screen. I've tried every startup key combination to no avail. Using a PC and an old mac I formatted an external HD according to these instructions: [url=http://osxdaily.com/2009/09/02/install-snow-leopard-from-external-firewire-or-usb-hard-drive-or-how-to-upgrade-to-106-without-a-dvd-drive/]Install Snow Leopard from External Firewire or USB Hard Drive, or How to Upgrade to 10.6 Without a DVD Drive - OS X Daily[/url] and holding down the option key I [B]DO[/B] see the external HD but when I click on the little arrow underneath it nothing happens. Two questions: 1: When I hold down option on startup I [B]ONLY[/B] see the external HD plugged into the laptop and nothing else. Would I normally also see the internal HD? Does this suggest that the laptop's HD is dead, or the connection to the HD is perhaps dead? 2: If I formatted the external HD incorrectly and it's not bootable would it still show up when I start up with the "option" key pressed? Or does it suggest that it is indeed bootable - the fact that it shows up in the "option" list? Thanks very much. [/QUOTE]

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