I'm trying to fix this mac mini for my boss and here is the deal, the mac mini has unknown mac os along with windows xp via bootcamp. Trying booting into window I will ran into endless blue screen/restart. It won't even boot into mac os, just sits at the grey apple with the spinning thing spinning forever. Try popping in a mountain lion disc and boot from there, and its stuck at the same grey apple screen. Than I created a bootable usb of snow leopard and try booting from the usb, that works. However when I try to go to disc utility to wipe the harddrive from the LP install disc it will freeze at gathering disk information with a spinning beach ball. If i try to install directly without wiping the disc, it will go as far as the next step selecting a drive to install on and it would show the HD grey out with the bottom left forever spinning at gathering free space.
I try reseting PRAM (the method i found was to unplug all cable, count to 10, pressing power button while inserting power cable than restart computer) made no difference.
So I declare the harddrive dead or is there anything else i can try?
Edit: I waited a bit at the disk utility page and it load, detecting the mac side of the drive but the bootcamp section is grey out. every click i make here will result in beachball spinning for 5 mins before any response
I try reseting PRAM (the method i found was to unplug all cable, count to 10, pressing power button while inserting power cable than restart computer) made no difference.
So I declare the harddrive dead or is there anything else i can try?
Edit: I waited a bit at the disk utility page and it load, detecting the mac side of the drive but the bootcamp section is grey out. every click i make here will result in beachball spinning for 5 mins before any response
