You can access Mac disks from your desktop or favorite software, as well as create and partition Mac disks. MacDrive even includes robust tools to The key is it can partition the disk in Mac OS stile, which is must have to make bootable OS disk. Next step would be to open/extract the OS installer. MacOSXSnowLeopard Free Download 10.6.8 disk image iso clean rip. It is the full offline installer standalone setup direct single click download.You can also get MAC OS X Lion 10.7.5.
My CD drive is dead on my mac, its just doesn't work and when I tired it broke one of my blank disks. My HDDs were wiped that had Mac on as I was trying to fix one but I messed up and lost all my data, my only backup is corrupted.
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I need to re-install OS X 10.6 for school, but without a CD drive i cant do this, I dont even have the install CDs since my friend gave me this macbook. Heres my macbook: Is there any way I can install without a CD? Every time i try to install with a usb it gives me a flashing folder. Im using a windows PC and ive tried Transmac, doesn't seem to work. No offence to blueroom but he really has no idea what hes talking about. All Macs that I own have Superdrives in them and I have installed OSX using a USB every time.
Make sure you back up whatever is on your 8gb USB as it is about to get wiped. Plug in a USB to your computer. Fire up Disk Utility, and select your USB drive. Go to the partitions tab, select '1 Partition' and press the 'Options' box under it. Select the GUID partition table.
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In the format field select 'Mac OSX Extended (Journaled)'. Then press 'Partition' to begin wiping the USB.
After this is done, go to the Restore tab. In 'Source' select the disk image of OSX you want to install. The destination should be your 8GB USB. Press 'Restore' and it will make a bootable USB version of the OSX installer. This could take 20 minutes to an hour depending on how fast your USB is.
Turn on your computer and hold down the option key during the white screen before the Apple logo appears. Now plug in your USB, it should appear as a OSX installer, select that and you can then install OSX. No offence to blueroom but he really has no idea what hes talking about. All Macs that I own have Superdrives in them and I have installed OSX using a USB every time. Make sure you back up whatever is on your 8gb USB as it is about to get wiped. Plug in a USB to your computer.
Fire up Disk Utility, and select your USB drive. Go to the partitions tab, select '1 Partition' and press the 'Options' box under it. Select the GUID partition table. In the format field select 'Mac OSX Extended (Journaled)'. Then press 'Partition' to begin wiping the USB.
After this is done, go to the Restore tab. In 'Source' select the disk image of OSX you want to install. The destination should be your 8GB USB.
Press 'Restore' and it will make a bootable USB version of the OSX installer. This could take 20 minutes to an hour depending on how fast your USB is. Turn on your computer and hold down the option key during the white screen before the Apple logo appears. Now plug in your USB, it should appear as a OSX installer, select that and you can then install OSX. Click to expand.If it doesn't find the installation with Option boot (holding Alt while starting) there is most likely something wrong with the usb drive. Did you restore the image to it correctly? Is the partition map GUID?
Otherwise it would find it. What kind of macbook is it btw? Might not support 10.8 like you assume. MacBooks with Core Duo CPU can do 10.6.8 and MacBooks with Core2Duo and Intel graphics can do 10.7.5. If its got nvidia graphics, you can go all the way up to Yosemite 10.10. Click to expand.You will need: Another Mac USB storage device 1.
On another Mac, insert the Snow Leopard install disk. Open Disk Utility (in the Utilities folder in Applications folder) 3.
Select the install disk, and click 'New Image' in the toolbar. After you finish copying the disk, eject the disk and insert your USB storage device. If your disk image is not in the list in Disk Utility, drag it in. Select the image and click the 'Restore' tab. Choose the image as the Source and choose the USB device as the destination.
Click Restore. After you are done the Restore, eject the USB device. Now plug it in the Mac you wan to install OS X. Hold the option key and press the power button. Release the option key when the screen comes up.
Select the USB device with Mac OS X install to boot from. Thank you to everyone who helped me, I managed to fix my mac.
It took me about 3 hours, I simply sat there on CMD trying to convert to GPT format and I managed to figure out what I actually had to type in (Because the Microsoft website wasnt very helpful) So now both of my HDDs are in GPT format and ive got 2 HDDs running on my mac, 10.6.7 installed. Clean and running smooth, now all ive got to do is buy a new charger and a new battery! Once again thank you everyone for helping me in this thread.