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SD Card not showing up when I press "Option"

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cccade3

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May 14, 2012
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Hi, I have a Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.11 macbook, and I'm trying to upgrade to Snow Leopard with the disc information on a SD Card. It tells me to hold down "Option" on startup, and when I do, the only thing I can choose is "Mac" with a picture of the hard drive icon, there is no option for the Snow Leopard Update/SD Card. How do I make it appear? Since there is no SD card slot in my computer, I am using an SD card adapter, and it works perfectly, the problem has nothing to do with the adapter. Please help! :confused: :confused:
 
How did you copy what exact contents via what way to the how formatted SD card?

If the SD card is formatted properly* and you used CarbonCopyCloner to clone the contents of the install medium (if it actually is compatible with your Mac) to the SD card, it should be bootable.
 
simsaladimbamba said:
How did you copy what exact contents via what way to the how formatted SD card?

If the SD card is formatted properly* and you used CarbonCopyCloner to clone the contents of the install medium (if it actually is compatible with your Mac) to the SD card, it should be bootable.
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I copied all the information from a Snow Leopard update disc onto a SD card using the Disk Utility. I followed a Youtube tutorial.
 
simsaladimbamba said:
Normally that is the correct method, but I often experienced problems using Disk Utility that way, thus I used Disk Utility to make a bootable installer of my Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard DVD, though I made a disk image first via Disk Utility like shown in the video.
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Okay, thanks. But I'm not completely Mac savvy, so I was wondering if you could explain to me step-by-step how to do this with Carbon Copy Cloner, or send me a tutorial? I know I'm asking for a lot, but I really want this done tonight.
 
cccade3 said:
Okay, thanks. But I'm not completely Mac savvy, so I was wondering if you could explain to me step-by-step how to do this with Carbon Copy Cloner, or send me a tutorial? I know I'm asking for a lot, but I really want this done tonight.
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  • Insert the DVD.
  • Insert the USB flash memory thumb drive.
  • Format it like shown in the video or the following guide
  • Download CarbonCopyCloner (CCC) and install it
  • Open CCC
  • Select the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Install DVD as SOURCE (left side of the CCC window)
  • Select the freshly formatted USB flash memory thumb drive as TARGET (right side of the CCC window
  • Press CLONE
  • Enter password
  • Wait
  • Check via System Preferences > Startup Disk
  • Boot from it
  • Install
 
simsaladimbamba said:
  • Insert the DVD.
  • Insert the USB flash memory thumb drive.
  • Format it like shown in the video or the following guide
  • Download CarbonCopyCloner (CCC) and install it
  • Open CCC
  • Select the Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Install DVD as SOURCE (left side of the CCC window)
  • Select the freshly formatted USB flash memory thumb drive as TARGET (right side of the CCC window
  • Press CLONE
  • Enter password
  • Wait
  • Check via System Preferences > Startup Disk
  • Boot from it
  • Install
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It's currently cloning. Thank you so much! I'll let you know in about 10 minutes if it worked. Thanks again! :) :apple:
 
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