Hey I got a 2007 13" macbook from a girl I used to bone and I'm trying to format it with a new image of Snow Leopard. I have lots of experience with PC but absolutely clueless when it comes to OSX.
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Originally posted by robs97snake View PostHey I got a 2007 13" macbook from a girl I used to bone and I'm trying to format it with a new image of Snow Leopard. I have lots of experience with PC but absolutely clueless when it comes to OSX.
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It's a downloaded .dmg and the problem is the Mac reading it. Opening it with the Disk Utility tells me I need to burn it to disc and install it from there. I didn't have any dual layer dvd-rs so I made a bootable USB. That worked but then I got "cannot use this volume". I finally got my old dual layer discs but before I burnt any I tested to see if the computer would read the disc and of course, it doesn't.
What now???
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Google "how to install Snow Leopard from a USB drive".
Just did this myself on a Macbook. You will need a USB drive of about 8gb...or use a USB external hard drive. It has to be formatted in the disk utility (dont remember which format which is why I said google it). Once properly formatted copy the image to the disk. IF the image is a functioning disk...holding C at boot will give you the option of the external drive. I still say go to Frys and buy a retail Snow Leopard disk for 29 bucks. I haven't found many internet copies of snow leopard that actually worked...and I wouldn't trust it even if it did.
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