How to reinstall Snow Leopard

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How to reinstall Snow Leopard

I have an old PowerBook G4 that I've been screwing around with, and recently in a crazy attempt to free up some disk space, I deleted all of my programs. Yes, I know, that was stupid 🙂. Anyway, ALL of my programs (including Prefs and Disk Utility, etc.) are gone. I have an ISO of both Leopard and Snow Leopard on two DVDs. The G4 also has a bad CD drive. I would prefer to use my Win 7 PC to burn disks/make bootable USBs/whatever else I need to do, but if required, I also have a MacBook Pro running Lion. Any ideas would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Dylan

PowerBook G4-OTHER, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Apr 28, 2012 11:39 AM

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BGreg

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Apr 28, 2012 3:05 PM in response to dylanm312

Hook the powerbook up to the Macbook pro in Target Disk Mode and do the installation on the Powerbook (If Lion will let you). More info on Target Disk Mode: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661

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Apr 28, 2012 3:35 PM in response to BGreg

Hey BGreg,

I forgot to say that I already tried that. It would boot up from the disk like it should, but then when it would reboot to start the installation the Pro would spit out the disk.

Thanks anyway,

Dylan

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