I just got my Seagate Momentus XT today in the mail. So I grabbed my tools, my snow leopard retail DVD ( this is the 10.6 retail upgrade DVD that people were able to buy to upgrade from leopard to snow leopard for $30 )
I have a Western Digital 640GB in there now. I can't get my 640gb or XT to boot from this DVD. my 640gb still boots up to the OS and runs fine. my Macbook is the Mid 2010. I have reset the PRAM, used "C" to boot to from optical, used "command, option, shift, delete" still with no success. It just sits at the apple logo forever.
I did put the XT drive in a external drive while the 640gb was in the mbp and formatted it. Still nothing.
Is my issue that the OS that CAME on the i7 is more up to date than the retail 10.6 update DVD? do I NEED the DVD that came with my Macbook? if not, how can I get this to work?
I NEED YOUR HELP MAC GENIUSES.
EDIT. All I want to do is clone over my 640gb to the XT....how can I do this?
I have a Western Digital 640GB in there now. I can't get my 640gb or XT to boot from this DVD. my 640gb still boots up to the OS and runs fine. my Macbook is the Mid 2010. I have reset the PRAM, used "C" to boot to from optical, used "command, option, shift, delete" still with no success. It just sits at the apple logo forever.
I did put the XT drive in a external drive while the 640gb was in the mbp and formatted it. Still nothing.
Is my issue that the OS that CAME on the i7 is more up to date than the retail 10.6 update DVD? do I NEED the DVD that came with my Macbook? if not, how can I get this to work?
I NEED YOUR HELP MAC GENIUSES.
EDIT. All I want to do is clone over my 640gb to the XT....how can I do this?