Q: Late 2006 iMac starts with spinning gear and just keeps spinning
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May 31, 2014 12:06 PMby Mike Sombrio,I don't believe that Snow Leopard has ever been available as a download......legally. If I'm correct you should purchase Snow Leopard here http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
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May 31, 2014 12:37 PMby den.thed,Sounds like your HD might have failed and it doesn't help that you do not have a Snow Leopard upgrade DVD.
Startup from your Leopard disc and navigate to Utilities > Disk Utility.
If you see the HD, then you are stuck without a retail copy of Snow Leopard.
If you do not see the HD, then the HD or someother hardware has failed.
Of course, if you have your User Folders backed up to an External HD...? Then:
1. You can replace the hard drive and install either Leopard or a retail copy of Snow Leopard onto the new HD, then migrate your User Folders from the backup HD into OS X on the new HD.
2. You can buy a new Mac and migrate the User Folders from the backup into it.
And of course if you do not have a backup, then you may have just lost everything.
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May 31, 2014 12:59 PMby den.thed,What happens when you try to Repair the Macintosh HD from Leopard Disk Utility...?
The old Mac is to old for Target Display Mode and the new iMac would need a Thunderbolt to FireWire adapter for FireWire target disk mode.
If you do not have backup of the data on the old Mac, your best bet is to get it going again or use FireWire target disk mode.
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May 31, 2014 1:09 PMby govinsky ,i get:
Invalid sibling link
Volume check failed
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
i HFS volume check
1 Volume could not be repaired because of an error
The old Mac is not backed up:(. Not really my computer. The new one will definitely be though. I may have the Thunderbolt to Firewire cable. If I can't get it going, can I still get the data using Target Disk Mode? What about Diskwarrior?
