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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lbatson21" data-source="post: 1328008" data-attributes="member: 169331">1.) Are you using your own iMac Snow Leopard disks (the grey ones)? If so they are specific to that particular Mac model and probably won't work on other models. The retail upgrade SL disk is meant to install on any Intel based Mac though.2.)If you have an Apple wired mouse hold down the left click on startup of the Mac and it should eject the disk. I haven't tried with a non Apple mouse but it might work the same. 3.)If 2 works you don't have to worry about trying to restore from a Time Machine backup of another Mac.4.)Time Machine works on Mac OS Extended Journaled so yes you should format the drive for it to work properly. You can always partition the drive though to use part of it for Time Machine and part of it for something else (NTFS or FAT32)</blockquote>