Q: The Hard Drive Failed On My 2009 Mac Mini Need To Re-Install OS X
My 2009 Mac Mini has recently encountered a hard drive failure, I have no backup or usb installer drive. I have a replacement hard drive, but with this comes a couple of questions. Does my new hard drive need to be blank? as it is currently running a bootable version of Ubuntu. I'm assuming this isn't a major issue as I can format it in the bios, right?
Secondly I am having trouble trying to create bootable media for yosemite, my only other mac is a 2007 mac mini which runs 10.7 lion. Does anyone have a guide on this or any useful links.
Thank You.
Mac mini
Posted on Jun 3, 2015 1:47 AM
- On the old Mac download the Lion installer fro the Purchases section of the Mac App Store and make bootable USB media and boot the 2009 Mini from that media. I use this to make bootable USB media
- Use your Snow Leopard install DVD and boot from it and install SL and fully update it and then download the Yosemite installer from the Mac App Store and install it.
In any event you have to use Disk Utility to format the new disk and then install the OS
Posted on Jun 3, 2015 2:10 AM