How to install new reboot drive with Snow Leopard when new drive is unformatted and the only thing displayed is to choose to run the OS disc? It is impossible to choose disk utility as nothing happens.

Mac Pro (2006) running Snow Leopard crashed. Geniuses were certain it was bootable HD. Installed new HD and pressed option key with Snow Leopard in optical drive. Chose "Mac OS Installation Disc." Disc runs once for a minute, stops, runs again, then nothing. It is impossible to choose disk utility to format the disc as absolutely nothing but a black screen is visible!

pull all your drives so you just boot the DVD
If you have an ATI 5770 you cannot boot with less than 10.6.5
Ideally you would go through phone system and buy Lion, download and SAVE and create a Lion Installer media (DVD and flash memory are possible).
If you can't boot the DVD alone, let us know as gives a better idea.

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I had an iMac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8, I downloaded and installed Lion, did not make me any questions. After the reboot I get this fatal error: Panic(cpu 0 ......) Kernel trap ......

I had an iMac with Snow Leopard 10.6.8, I downloaded and installed Lion, did not make me any questions. After the reboot I get this fatal error: Panic(cpu 0 ......) Kernel trap ......

Please post the Kernel Panic report. You will find it at /Library/Logs/DiagnosticReports per
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2546
When we look at the KP report we may find some clues why it is occuring.

Want new Mac Pro With Snow Leopard

I am after a new Mac Pro with Snow Leopard.
I understand that some of the newer Mac Pros can have Snow Leopard installed. Some tell me that in the recent past Apple made a change that made installation of Snow Leopard difficult or impossible on a Mac Pro.
Does anyone know with a reasonable degree of certainty how to tell if a given Mac Pro can have Snow Leopard installed?
I called Apple about a refurbished Mac Pro, they don't know what operating system it will come with! And they don't know if it will include OS installation disks.

For what it is worth, I recently went through this drama.
Well, it's worth a lot!
it is theoretically possible for Apple to modify the firmware to prevent Snow from booting, but my experience is that this has not happened yet.
How long ago did you purchase your Mac Pro? (I miss the old days, when users would modify their own firmware.)
See if you can buy from a seller who will let you test this out. There are some nice retailers out there, especially when you are dropping $1000s on a new Mac Pro.
I've been looking for a while now, Mac Pro sellers that have Snow Leopard know how valuable there machines are. There are no bargains if you want snow leopard.
We couldn't install Snow directly on the Mac Pro, so I installed on another computer (an older Mac Pro), and updated to 10.6.8 and swapped the drive across. This worked without issues.
I currently own a 2008 Mac Pro (2,1) with 10.6.8
See if you can buy from a seller who will let you test this out.
Why not Apple? They have a 15 Day return policy. When I called Apple recently the person I spoke to suggested this.

How do I repair a HD with snow leopard if i don't have a snow leopard disk. I do have the leopard disk.

How do I repair my HD with snow leopard if I do not have the OSX start up disk. Can I use my leopard disk?

Restart the computer with the Shift key held down to quietly run a disk repair utility.
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Brand new 27" iMac with Snow Leopard has constant hard disk activity

I just purchased a new 27" iMac which was an upgrade for my 24" with Leopard. I have used my older machine for a good year and not noticed any hard drive activity when idle.
Now on the new machine with Snow Leopard I constantly get hard disk activty every few seconds.
This will happen from:
1) Restart
2) leaving at login screen
3) loggin in and not running anything.
4) Computer screen in sleep mode.
5) well, all the time really.
I have looked at the activity monitor and can see spikes every 5-10 seconds.
I have turned off all processes possible, watched processes for CPU spikes, etc to no avail.
Is anyone else having the same problem and if so can they suggest a fix? I originally thought it may be something writing to a log every so often but I have no idea what and how to find it.
Using iStat just confirms the activity.
Hope you can help as this is driving me mad!
Message was edited by: RedDwarfUK

RedDwarfUK wrote:
I havent really installed much as well. Here are the list of programs I have installed.
Adium
Firefox
New icons
app cleaner
skype
spotify
chicken of the VNC
GoToMeeting
Cisco VPN Client
Xmarks for safari and firefox
I would start by checking each of these items, making sure you have the latest versions of each & that they are compatible with Snow Leopard. Do the same for any Firefox extensions or any plugins associated with any of these applications. In particular, chicken of the VNC hasn't been updated since 2006 & what little compatibility info I can find for it suggests it supports only Tiger (10.4) & 10.3.9. The Download Xmarks page indicates that it is beta software.
Also note that some of these items may do more than just run as applications. On first run or install, some might install startup or login items, or preference panels that remain in effect even when the application is not running. Check /Library/StartupItems & /System/Library/StartupItems -- both are empty by default, so anything you find in them is suspect. Likewise, check the System Preferences > Accounts > Login Items tab. Anything you find in them that does not appear to come from Apple (like iTunes helper) is suspect. Also check the "Other" category of System Preferences.

How to make Canon printers work with Snow Leopard

Can anyone explain simple language (I'm not technical which is why I chose Apple) how I can get my Canon MP 980 printer/scanner to work with Snow Leopard.
Everything used to work perfectly and I'm beginning to regret the upgrade to Snow Leopard (what other suprises are waiting for me when I'm in a hurry?).
I have other Canon printers in various locations (MP 600, MP 530 and iP90). Will I have similar problems with all of them and, if so, is there a simple way to resolve the issues across the board?
I checked the Canon web-site but was totally confused
Any help truly appreciated.

According to Apples website; they should work. Please see: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3669#canon
The driver version should be: 10.26.1.0 (or greater)
The above article was modified in December 15th 2009
If after installing the most-up-to-date driver, via the link provided, the issue persists, reset the printing system.
How-to reset the printing system:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?path=Mac/10.6/en/14001.html
Then install the printing driver supplied by Canon on Apples website here:
http://support.apple.com/downloads/CanonPrinter_Drivers_for_Mac_OS_X_v106
If that still does not work, reset the printing system again. Now go to Canon's website and get the driver(s) for mac there.
Canon's website for driver download for the PIXMA MP980:
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&tabact=DownloadDet ailTabAct&fcategoryid=334&modelid=17357
There is the possibility the drivers on canon's website could be newer than apples. The version numbers, size of file to download, and release date all appear to be quite different.
On *apples website*, the driver info stats:
* Version: 2.2
* Post Date: November 16, 2009
* Download ID: DL899
* File Size: 274.59MB
On *canon's website*, the various driver info stats:
File Name and Description Version File Size Date Posted
ICA Driver Ver. 1.3.0m (Mac OS X 10.6)
icaosx130m.dmg
1.3.0m
5.37 MB
01/05/2010
MP980 series CUPS Printer Driver Ver. 10.26.2.0 (Mac OS X 10.5/10.6)
mp980sosxcp102620ea8-2.dmg
10.26.2.0
10.11 MB
12/25/2009
MP980 series Scanner Driver Ver. 14.8.2 (Mac OS X 10.3/10.4/10.5/10.6)
mp980sosxsd1482ea8-2.dmg
14.8.2
23.86 MB
09/01/2009
MP980 series MP Driver Ver.1.0 for Network (Mac OS X 10.6)
mp980sosxns10ea7-3.dmg
1.0
39.56 MB
11/05/2009
MP980 series Printer Driver Ver. 7.13.1 (Mac OS X 10.3/10.4/10.5)
mp980sosxpd7131ea8-2.dmg
7.13.1
7.34 MB
06/15/2009
+I do not own the same printer+, however I would suggest installing some of or all of the following 3 drivers.
If your printing via USB:
MP980 series CUPS Printer Driver Ver. 10.26.2.0 (Mac OS X 10.5/10.6)
If your printing via a Networked Printer:
MP980 series MP Driver Ver.1.0 for Network (Mac OS X 10.6)
If your going to use the scanner:
MP980 series Scanner Driver Ver. 14.8.2 (Mac OS X 10.3/10.4/10.5/10.6)
If you scroll down further, past the 'drivers', that same website from Canon also includes step-by-step guides/manuals for setting up the printer/scanner, both via USB & WiFi.
If the steps above did not resolve the issue, please respond back.
Good Luck!
*The website for the Pixma MP600 (sorry no MP600R listed) is here:
http://www.usa.canon.com/consumer/controller?act=ModelInfoAct&fcategoryid=238&mo delid=13800#DownloadDetailAct
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Here's how to Install Omnipage Pro X in Snow Leopard

Many users have reported having trouble installing Omnipage Pro X in Snow Leopard (usually only those who have done a "clean install" of Snow Leopard, or try to install Onmipage Pro X on a brand new Snow Leopard system). Those who have done an "upgrade" to Snow Leopard, and hence retain all their previous apps, typically find Ominpage Pro X continues to work. But those trying to install it in a new system usually report that the installer will quit at some point with a non-specific error.
Nuance's official line is that Omnipage Pro X is not supported on Snow Leopard. But Omnipage Pro X does work on Snow Leopard and can be installed - here's how:
Simply copy the entire installer CD across to a desktop folder, just using the Finder to drag and drop all the files from the CD. Then run the installer from the desktop copy.
This works! The installation runs all the way to the end and Omnipage starts up and works perfectly, once you enter your licence code. I have no idea why this should work, when installing from the CD fails.
Try this method and see if it works for you!

pull all your drives so you just boot the DVD
If you have an ATI 5770 you cannot boot with less than 10.6.5
Ideally you would go through phone system and buy Lion, download and SAVE and create a Lion Installer media (DVD and flash memory are possible).
If you can't boot the DVD alone, let us know as gives a better idea.

Can't boot from external hard drive with Snow Leopard

I bought a new Macbook Air with Lion. I have my old Snow Leopard installation cloned onto an external hard drive, and I want to boot from it. I can choose my external hard drive during boot, it shows the Apple logo, but after that the screen goes black and nothing happens. Is there a way to fix this?

Can't be done. Snow Leopard does not contain necessary drivers and perhaps other items required for OS X on the 2011 MBA. In fact, the version of Lion on the App store won't install on the 2011 MBA.
This is totally normal in Apple's world. A new version of MAC hardware that comes with a new version of OS X installed usually will not operate correctly with previous versions of OS X.

HP 1312nfi Multi-funtion printer & brand new Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard

Hi,
I just got my Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard May 2010. I can only print and fax with my 1 year old HP 1312nfi color laserjet multi-function printer. I cannot SCAN at all. I tried loading the software that came with the printer but it wouldn't install the 'Print Director' as I had on my old iMac (with Leopard). Then I went to HP and it said not to install the software that came with the HP printer because Snow Leopard has it all. I read that there are 3 ways to scan from my computer which none of them work. I brought up the printer then clicked printer setup and when I try to bring up the 'print utility' from the last tab, it won't open anything. Where is the printer utility now? Why can't I scan? There has to be a way. HELP please?

Found the answer on the HP site. It's the original software that works with this printer OS X 10.6!!
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?lang=en &cc=us&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=3558902&prodNameId=3562006&swEnvOID=219&swL ang=8&mode=2&taskId=135&swItem=ma-60835-3

External Hard Drive with Snow Leopard/Windows 7

I just bought a 500GB external HD that I would like to be able to use with Snow Leopard AND Win 7. I won't be using it for any Time Machine backups. I just want to be able to read/write files on it with both Leopard and Win 7.
Is there any recommended format procedures in order to be able to do this. I may be wrong, but I don't think I can read/write to my external Time Machine external hard drive with my Windows lap top running Win 7.

a TM drive must be formatted mac os extended and windows can't even read that without extra software like Mac Drive. It also requires that the partition scheme be GUID which it's most likely not at the moment so repartition the drive with correct partition scheme now if you do decide to use it for TM in the future. also, snow bootcamp drivers once you install them in windows will let you red (but not write) to mac os extended formatted drives.
the only FS which is natively read+write from both OS X and windows is FAT. but it's very old and has many deficiencies especially on the OS X side.
but it's good for interoperability.
or you can format the drive NTFS and use some software like NTFS-3g or NTFS for mac by paragon to make it writable from OS X.
you may also wish to split the drive in two partitions and format them differently.

Aperture 1.5 on a new MB Pro with Snow Leopard

Just tried to install my old Aperture on my new MB with Snow Leopard. Didn't work. Is there a fix for this other than buying the 3.0 update.

It won't run on that OS, and you can't install an earlier OS on that hardware.
The good news is that you're eligible for the upgrade price- US$99.
DLS

New Macbook Pro with Snow Leopard, can't check Epson R320 ink levels

Hello,
A lady on the phone at Epson told me how to do this a few months ago, but I've forgotten, and I can't find the secret again. I keep getting "not available".
Anybody know how to do this?
Thank you.

This is a tough one for Epson, too. They are quite helpful, and are going to call me back today, after we were trying to fix this for 40 min. yesterday. A new driver for Snow Leopard is coming, but they want to find a way for me to see ink levels now.

My macbook air with snow leopard OS. migrated to OS lion and have installed Java RE. a Bank website while opening in Java shows one error which window activity shows some applets not opening. it was fine in snow leopard. will somebody help?

My macbook air with snow leopard OS was purchased last year. Recently migrated to OS lion and have also installed Java RE. A Bank website while opening in Java shows one error which window activity shows some applets not opening. But it was fine in snow leopard. Will somebody help?

My macbook air with snow leopard OS was purchased last year. Recently migrated to OS lion and have also installed Java RE. A Bank website while opening in Java shows one error which window activity shows some applets not opening. But it was fine in snow leopard. Will somebody help?

SUCCESS - now installed Oki c9800 printer with Snow Leopard - solution

I had tried over and over with uninstall and reinstall to make my Oki c9800 printer work to no avail. After reading another post I tried the same suggestion but changing the name for my own printer and it works with Snow Leopard. (The original post of this solution is at
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2141179&tstart=0 - Matt's answer)
SOLUTION:
The Oki installer has set permissions incorrectly.
Open the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities).
Copy and paste the following command into a Terminal window:
sudo chown -R root:admin /Library/Printers/Oki/
Then hit the Return or Enter key. Enter your administrator's password at the prompt.
NOTE: Make sure the printer name, in my case 'Oki', is exactly the same spelling and case. When I put in OKI it didn't work. I had to put in 'Oki' as in my Printers folder.

*My Solutions*
I used a tiger or leopard box and shared the printer through it. no driver required on SL end.

Mac Pro can't find hard drive with Snow Leopard installed on

Hello there,
I have a three harddrive setup.
Harddrive 1 is in bay 1 and has two partitions.
1: For system and apps
2: For Documents and stuff
Hard drive 2+3 are in Bay 2+3 and are combined to a RAID 0 drive.
Some time ago I installed Leopard and the brand new an formatted hard drive.
It happened that it always took 2 start ups to run Leopard because always on the first time it didn t find the system on hard drive one. Pushing the 'D' button often helped.
Of course that was nothing to work with, although I at least could get some work done, once I loaded Leopard successfully.
So I tried Disk Utility, fsck without success.
I also tried the way of using fdisk to mark the partion as active, which only resulted in now not being able to boot at all.
Booting from DVD I also tried choosing my Leopard install on my hard drive as boot device (it has always shown up here) but still without success.
I am afraid things are quite messed up, since there were a few things happening at one time, which I am not overly happy about now. (Installing new RAM, installing SNOW LEOPARD on the new harddrive 1 in bay one, having still the RAID with LEOPARD on in bays 2+3).
I am already certain to do a fresh and complete reinstall of the system, I have my backup, but still there is some iTunes music and a few documents I haven't backed up yet, which I'd rather would not like to lose...
Put it short:
What could I do to get my system running at least once?
Thanks a lot,
max.

After some research I found out about the nice TargetDiskMode which I used to save all my important data with my MacBook.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
Ready to perform a complete and fresh install now!
Max.

How to install new reboot drive with Snow Leopard when new drive is unformatted and the only thing displayed is to choose to run the OS disc? It is impossible to choose disk utility as nothing happens.

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