pmiles
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Q: Unable to install 10.6 retail to new hard drive

System: MacPro 5,1 6-Core Intel Xeon 3.33GHz

 

New Hard Drive:  Western Digital 1TB Sata WD1003FZEX, Formatted MacOS Extended Journaled, GUID Partition Table

 

OS attempting to install:  OSX 10.6 from retail disc

 

 

For some reason I am unable to install 10.6 directly to the new drive.  I can clone my existing install of 10.6.8 from another drive to the new drive and it boots, but I cannot subsequently erase the drive and install a fresh copy of 10.6.  If I try to boot directly into the 10.6 install DVD, it hangs at the Apple logo.  If I try to install 10.6 to the new drive while booted in the other install of 10.6.8 (different hard drive, I have 3, one for bootcamp, 1 with 10.6.8, and one with no OS at all), when it hits the reboot screen it hangs at the Apple logo.  I have to force it to shut down then use the option key at startup to select another drive to get the system to get out of the Apple logo screen of infinity.

 

I know I have done an erase and install on my original drive using the retail disc.  Why can't I do the same for the new disk drive?  My goal is to do a complete fresh install of 10.6.8, then install only those apps that I am currently using.  Clean out the cobwebs of all the extra stuff that I no longer need.  I can't seem to do that on this new drive.  Have no idea why it refuses to install the OS on a fresh drive but will allow me to copy a clone of it from another drive.  I don't want a clone, I want a clean install.  Should I revert back to my original recovery discs (not that it has any idea why sort of drive this is) and then upgrade to 10.6 from there?

 

Need a solution.

Mac OS X (10.6.8), / 5870 / LED Cinema Display

Posted on May 22, 2014 6:33 PM

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  • by FatMac>MacPro,

    FatMac>MacPro FatMac>MacPro May 27, 2014 8:34 AM in response to kahjot
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    May 27, 2014 8:34 AM in response to kahjot

    kahjot wrote:

     

    ...The only issue I had was with a 10.6.8 combo updater that I had downloaded some time ago. It did not complete the update successfully. However, getting and installing the combo update through Software Update worked fine...

    FWIW, the original 10.6.8 combo updater had problems and a new version was posted, though the file's name didn't change. Depending on how old the file you used was, that might explain why it didn't work but Software Update did.

  • by kahjot,

    kahjot kahjot May 27, 2014 9:12 AM in response to FatMac>MacPro
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    May 27, 2014 9:12 AM in response to FatMac>MacPro

    FatMac\>MacPro wrote:

     

    kahjot wrote:

     

    ...The only issue I had was with a 10.6.8 combo updater that I had downloaded some time ago. It did not complete the update successfully. However, getting and installing the combo update through Software Update worked fine...

    FWIW, the original 10.6.8 combo updater had problems and a new version was posted, though the file's name didn't change. Depending on how old the file you used was, that might explain why it didn't work but Software Update did.

     

    Hmm. I also have the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1 updater for which you provided a link, and I tried to run it after the first one failed to complete updating. But I got an error message saying that it required 10.6.7, which of course I wasn't running because I had just installed 10.6.3.

  • by FatMac>MacPro,

    FatMac>MacPro FatMac>MacPro May 27, 2014 9:17 AM in response to kahjot
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    May 27, 2014 9:17 AM in response to kahjot

    Since the System Requirements for the combo updater are Mac OS X v10.6 - Mac OS X 10.6.7, something is very wrong indeed.

  • by kahjot,

    kahjot kahjot May 27, 2014 9:27 AM in response to FatMac>MacPro
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    May 27, 2014 9:27 AM in response to FatMac>MacPro


    FatMac\>MacPro wrote:

     

    Since the System Requirements for the combo updater are Mac OS X v10.6 - Mac OS X 10.6.7, something is very wrong indeed.

     

    It certainly seemed weird to me. I'm downloading a fresh copy. We'll see what happens.

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