Same Problem but I've a Pentium P6200 Laptop Acer Aspire 5742z Any Ideas? Has anybody here been able to figure this out? The tricky part is her optical drive is totally kaput. Rindi's comments are just wrong. Heere is a collection of my edits to the post as I went figuring things out for myself as I think this thread is dead. However, when I boot from the installation, it fails. I believe you may have misunderstood the question, but perhaps since I am in a similar situation to knidsrok I might be able to clear things up. I've ran into issues though. If the problem persists, disable your anti-virus software, it may be blocking raw write to the drive.
He writes: Over the holidays I took your advice to by offering my services to my sister. I swapped my bad hard drive with my brothers friends good hard drive, only problem is i cant install any downloaded programs i. I will update as I go. I've never done it from Windows because I just do it the easier way, so I don't know if you'll even be successful. . Reader Steven Harris is trying to do the right thing by his family, but technical barriers prevent it.
This is one such case. I have a similar problem,except reverse. You could probably get a much faster answer about alternate installation methods for Windows 7 on a Windows forum, whether it was to be installed on a Mac or not. For starters what kind of computer does she have? This took about 49 minutes with my 2012 MacBook Air. If I use Chameleon, it reverts to text after loading all of the extensions, and just sits there. Until I found this post.
I've tried different combinations of boot options, but none of them seem to work. Click Erase to format the key drive. Double-click on the installer disk image to mount it. Now drag the mounted key drive to the Destination field. Restart her Mac and hold down the Option key when the Mac shows signs of life. I'm sure I'll have a million other issues as I've been at this for a week! The image will be copied to the key drive.
The Mac will boot into the Snow Leopard installer. I have looked up the post install instructions, it says to install clover but its are not clear as to how to do this. Wait for the installation to finish and restart. If it is to try to use it as an external boot disk to repair a Mac, I wonder whether or not he has tried to boot the Mac using the recovery partition boot while holding down command-R. When Windows asks if you want to format it, cancel and run Image Writer again. In the startup window that eventually appears, select the key drive to boot from. .
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