I recently have gotten a 2009 mac pro that had no hard drive inside of it. When I try to install snow leopard from the physical recovery disk it will not load and the disk drive will make a loud click. I have tried 3 disk drives and all have done the same thing. Any Advise or any help is appreciated.
Scrounge another Mac Pro from that same era, some wood or metal, and make yourself an end-table or a bench? (Apparently we can’t post links to Pinterest here, but there’s a nice collection of furniture built from old Mac pro boxes over there.)
Run diagnostics?
With that vintage and that noise, you’re probably headed for replacement hard disks.
Once you get 10.6.8 snow leopard installed, you will need to apply ALL available updates (it may take several cycles ) to get the update to the Mac App Store that can give you up to El Capitan.
If you need to go farther, you will probably have to install El Capitan temporarily, then update from there.
I figured it out, I borrowed a disk from a friend and it worked because the software I had was corrupted.
Thank you.
so the recovery disk boots up without issue? does the screen light up? does the keyboard work?
It won't boot the disk at all, It flashes the Prohibitory symbol, Question mark symbol, and the apple logo rapidly and it will do that with no end.
as MrHoffman suggests, a Mac that cannot boot from its appropriate recovery disc is broken. The software itself is incorruptible.
2009 mac pro help
