After erasing its internal drive, you didn't do a clean install of some version of OS X before you sold it?
- I have just repartitioned a 2 week old iMac and successfully installed Snow leopard on the second partition. The 2011 Mac Mini definitely will not run Snow Leopard. No matter how you choose to install it. Drivers are not present to run the updated hardware. Installing snow leopard on machines shipped with Lion is definitely possible.
- How to Install Mac OS X (Tiger, Leopard, or Snow Leopard) on a PC: EDIT: This guide is very outdated and it doesn't exactly go into specifics all that well. By now there are much easier and less time-consuming ways to install Mac OS X on a PC. It will be kept up here for archiving purposes. Today I will sho.
- In Disk Utility select the key drive, click on the Erase tab, and from the Format pop-up menu choose Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Click Erase to format the key drive. Double-click on the installer.
In this video, I show you how to install the leopard operating system on the new 2011 Macbook Pro's. Enjoy the vid =D.
An iMac from early 2009 came with Leopard pre-installed, so it should start up from a retail Snow Leopard installation disc. However, an iMac from late 2009 came with Snow Leopard pre-installed, so it may not start up from a retail Snow Leopard disc, if the version on disc is earlier than pre-installed version. Is the Snow Leopard disc you gave him the one you used to upgrade Leopard to Snow Leopard, on that iMac? In other words, did you ever successfully start up that iMac using that disc?
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If this model originally came with Leopard, do you have the original disc that shipped with it (assuming you're the original owner)?
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He wants to install Windows on it afterward. Is there a way to run boot camp from where he is?
Boot Camp cannot be installed by itself. It's part of the OS X installation.
If the iMac's hard drive is completely blank, he needs to install Snow Leopard first (using an installation disc). How to find macintosh hd on macbook air. That gives him the Mac App Store, where he can download and install up to El Capitan (for an early 2009 iMac).
Depending on how you erased the iMac's drive, it may still have the hidden Recovery HD partition. He can try using this procedure
How To Install Leopard Dmg
NOTE: That part about macOSInternet Recovery does not work, if this iMac is early 2009.
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