Is there any way to make a snow leopard partition on an early 2011 MacBook Pro that was upgraded to Lion, without the original boot disk?

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Is there any way to make a snow leopard partition on an early 2011 MacBook Pro that was upgraded to Lion, without the original boot disk?

So I have an early 2011 MacBook pro, I believe it shipped with snow leopard originally, as I purchased and upgraded to Lion fairly early on. I am trying to make a partition right now and have it run snow leopard so I can use programs that have PowerPC.

I should note, I replaced both the RAM and the harddrive in my Macbook pro. I changed from 4 GB of ram (that came shipped) to 8 GB of ram from a 3rd party, that I installed on my own months ago, have registered in the computer and have been working fine for quite some time now.

Also I should note I replaced my harddrive. I went from what ever the standard 500 GB harddrive that shipped with 15 inch early 2011 MB pro's. I now have a 3rd party SSD that's 240GB's that I also installed on my own, (at the same time as the RAM---Black friday items) The harddrive has been working just fine since then.

In installing the harddrive I borrowed a friends external harddrive and used a program called carbon copy cloner to get everything over to the SSD.

Now here is my issue. I have ordered the Snow Leopard (10.6.3) install disks from apple, I have created a partition on my SSD for snow leopard, but when I try to select the install disc for snow leopard at boot I get three beeps.

I know this issue has been posted elsewere but it said answered and the answer is no longer available. I also am unsure if any of the RAM or Harddrive swapping could have been causing the issue. I have the old harddrive and RAM still, but unfortunatley have no external harddrive anymore or money to afford one.

Is there any way I can install a partition that runs snow leopard on my early 2011 MB pro with what I have (new SSD, New RAM, Current version Lion running, no external drive, lack of original snow leopard disks [I lost them 😟] and the general 10.6.3 snow leopard boot disks).

Let me know If there is anything I can do. I'm a now broke college student so i'd like to spend as little $$$$ as possible

*PS I should also note the DVD drive is working fine, it reads the disk, the disk is brand new, it plays DVD's fine and has never had any issues in the years i've used it for similar tasks*

sorry for the long drawn out post, I just wanted to include as much as possible from what I've seen other people have issues with

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.5)

Posted on Apr 24, 2013 9:28 PM

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Apr 24, 2013 9:33 PM in response to BrettGoudy

Click on the video link below and see if that helps you out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHZjCRsQV0E

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LowLuster

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Apr 25, 2013 3:10 AM in response to BrettGoudy

If you don't have the original snow leopard, system, reinstall disks that came with the system I think you can order a replacement set from Apple. You have to call apple and have the systems serial number. There is a small charge.

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MlchaelLAX

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Apr 25, 2013 11:24 AM in response to BrettGoudy

BrettGoudy wrote:

...Is there any way I can install a partition that runs snow leopard on my early 2011 MB pro with what I have (new SSD, New RAM, Current version Lion running, no external drive, lack of original snow leopard disks [I lost them 😟] and the general 10.6.3 snow leopard boot disks)...

As the last post suggests, call Apple and order a replacement original disc for about $17. They will ask you the model and serial numbers.

Your retail version of Snow Leopard OS 10.6.3 will not work on that Mac as it requires a minimum of OS X 10.6.7 to boot and operate.

Another alternative is to again borrow another Mac to install your retail Snow Leopard into an external HD or partition, upgrade it to 10.6.8 and then clone it back to a partition on your MBP.

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