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Hey everybody,
Looking to see if anyone can get me pointed in the right direction on this one. I have a mac mini mid 2011 version that has a failed hard drive as per the AHT. I've replaced the HD with a 500GB Seagate.
Which brings me to my issue, getting the OS reloaded on it.
-First thing I did was initiate online recovery, it brings up the "starting online recovery" just fine and moves onto the screen with the mac logo and fills that bar but after I get greeted with a blank white/grey screen. Tried leaving it over night but no joy come morning.
-Second thing I tried was to install the OS from a USB I've used before and have set aside just for reloading Macs, contains Mountain Lion. When I hold option and select this option it brings me to the Mac logo and the spinning wheel, quick flash of a black screen and then the blank screen again.
-Tried resetting the NVRAM and retrying the steps above, but same result.
-For the **** of it I put the mini into targeted disk mode and connected it to a mac book we keep in-shop. I was able to see the drive, initiated it, formatted it as OS Extended Journaled and named it 500GB HD. Then attempted the steps from above but no luck.
Tried Verbose mode, that doesn't seem to give me any useful info.
So what would you guys suggest to try next?
Looking to see if anyone can get me pointed in the right direction on this one. I have a mac mini mid 2011 version that has a failed hard drive as per the AHT. I've replaced the HD with a 500GB Seagate.
Which brings me to my issue, getting the OS reloaded on it.
-First thing I did was initiate online recovery, it brings up the "starting online recovery" just fine and moves onto the screen with the mac logo and fills that bar but after I get greeted with a blank white/grey screen. Tried leaving it over night but no joy come morning.
-Second thing I tried was to install the OS from a USB I've used before and have set aside just for reloading Macs, contains Mountain Lion. When I hold option and select this option it brings me to the Mac logo and the spinning wheel, quick flash of a black screen and then the blank screen again.
-Tried resetting the NVRAM and retrying the steps above, but same result.
-For the **** of it I put the mini into targeted disk mode and connected it to a mac book we keep in-shop. I was able to see the drive, initiated it, formatted it as OS Extended Journaled and named it 500GB HD. Then attempted the steps from above but no luck.
Tried Verbose mode, that doesn't seem to give me any useful info.
So what would you guys suggest to try next?