Install Snow Leopard From External Disk Drive?

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  1. Cronogenesis, Aug 29, 2009

    Cronogenesis macrumors newbie

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    Hello to all you lovely people, I've been a long time lurker on these forums and you've helped me out numerous times when my computers decided to stop working.

    I got my Snow Leopard disk in the post today but unfortunately my disk drive in my Macbook Pro seems to finally be well and truly knackered.

    I should be able to borrow a usb/firewire disk drive from a friend, so would I be able to install ok from this external drive, and is there anything I would need to mess around with to make it work?

    Sorry if this has been answered a thousand times before, or doesn't even seem like it needs answering to most people, but after the hell my macbooks been causing me today (especially with forgetting how to eject the dvd once ive inserted it) and trawling to unsuccessfully find an answer, any help or sound advice would be much appreciated.

    Thanks,
    Jack
     
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  2. adamk77, Aug 29, 2009

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  3. Cronogenesis, Aug 29, 2009

    Cronogenesis thread starter macrumors newbie

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    Thanks for the link, seems like it will help down the line of things :)

    Just need to try and work out how to get my macbook to read the disk in the first place (it does it 1/100 times so might have to be sheer persistance, or find an already ripped copy from certain shady places.
     
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  4. adamk77, Aug 29, 2009

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    If that's the case and if you already have the retail disk of Snow Leopard, you may just want to download the GM copy from the internet.

    I think Google is enough to help you find a ripped copy. The one that's floating around on the Internet is the exact same thing that's on the retail DVD. As you already have a copy, no guilt involved :)
     
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  5. DTphonehome, Aug 29, 2009

    DTphonehome macrumors 68000

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    I had a similar problem... my MacBook's drive spit out the Snow Leopard disc, and did the same with any disc I tried. I assume it's fried (haven't used the drive in years). So, after trying many different things, I eventually tried imaging the DVD to a firewire HD i had lying around, and the install started up without any hitch.
     
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