How to remove all remnants of Mountain Lion from an early 09 Mac Mini?

I have a 1 TB hard drive that was formaly in a late model 2012 Mac Mini that the Geinus's thought was faulty. So they R & R'd the drive, but I thought otherwise. I R & R'd the drive in a early 2009 Mac Mini and all was well until I decided to removed Litle Snitch 3.0 Using Back in Time 2. Well everything went south real quick! I've since tried my best reinstalling Snow leopard. For some reason either Mountain Lion remains somewhere in the computer. I've formatted many times, no good. Everytime the computer boots if I should hold down the option key I get Mountain Lion featutes! I can't get into target mode, I can't boot applejack, I can't boot off of DISKWARRIOR! I don't know what to do! Suggestions Please.

First, that cannot be an iBook G4 as that machine cannot run Snow Leopard let alone Mountain Lion. To run Snow Leopard it has to be an Intel processor, not a G4. What does it show as the Model Identifier in About This Mac, More Info, System Report, Hardware, Model Identifier?
Second, if you have erased the hard drive there should not be remnants of any prior content. Even though Disk Warrior is saying nothing is wrong with the hard drive, it sounds as though there are problems. You may want to consider simply replacing the hard drive so there are no questions about faults. A good source is OWC, http://www.macsales.com where they also have on-line videos showing how to do the replacement.
Third, you could also try again to restart using the Snow Leopard DVD/CD and use Disk Utility on that install disk to erase again, and do it a couple times, then try to install. If it continues to refuse, then it sounds as though there is a fault with the hard drive.

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1) After starting up, I get the usual gray screen with Apple logo.
2) After a few minutes, a darker gray screen scrolls down and in the middle of this is a black dialogue box with reversed (white) text. This text, in multiple languages, reads: "You need to restart your computer." Then it goes on to instruct on how to shut it down and restart it.
3) I follow this instruction, but get the same dialogue box over and over agin.
Any ideas?
Thanks and best wishes.

If you can't boot in the usual way, try a safe boot. The instructions provided by Apple are as follows:
Shut down your computer, wait 30 seconds, and then hold down the shift key while pressing the power button.
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If you are prompted to log in, type your password, and then hold down the shift key again as you click Log in.
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Either:
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- save the root node, throws away the tree model, build a new TreeModel with the saved root, set the new TreeModel in the JTree.
- implement your own TreeModel, which would support an emptyExceptRoot() method.
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I am not very tech savvy but work from home and have used Macs for about 18 years, so know the basics. Have had iBook G4 for almost 5 years, it came with Panther Discs and later added Snow Leopard. Never had even the slightest issue until about 2 months ago. Kept getting "browser no longer supported" on websites and eventually could no longer edit my own Jimdo website or publish on YUDU, so downloaded Mountain Lion and installed it on my iBook.
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Because of work pressure, after 48 hours with no improvement, I wound up buying a new iMac, so can work but still would love to have my iBook back, plus use of my Printer and scanner again. Last night finally managed to Panther reinstalled after erasing 4 times and many failed attempts at install. Everything seemingly fine but Snow Leopard first reinstall failed so erased once more. Second time SL installed but gave a warning in red saying something to the effect that as I am installing an older OS over a newer one, there will be issues. This leads me to believe that somehow, despite Time Machines and now 5 separate Hard Drive erasures through utilities, Mountain Lion is STILL on there? How on earth can I get rid of it and return just to Snow leopard. Any help really welcomed as I am at the end of my tether but don't want to give up on my old faithful (until now) iBook
PS: Sorry if I post in the wrong section

First, that cannot be an iBook G4 as that machine cannot run Snow Leopard let alone Mountain Lion. To run Snow Leopard it has to be an Intel processor, not a G4. What does it show as the Model Identifier in About This Mac, More Info, System Report, Hardware, Model Identifier?
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Third, you could also try again to restart using the Snow Leopard DVD/CD and use Disk Utility on that install disk to erase again, and do it a couple times, then try to install. If it continues to refuse, then it sounds as though there is a fault with the hard drive.

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Hi,
Previously, my mac mini mid 2011 was installed with mac os lion server then I have purchase and upgrade to mountain lion via iTunes.
Somehow I decided to downgrade back to lion server due to use of my mac as server, unfortunately I have no idea how to downgrade with the following reasons:
1. I don't create any time machine backup before so can't use that option.
2. I have enable vault function so now the startup has hide the recovery HD icon
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4. I can't download and install Lion server from iTunes because this os was bundle with purchase of mac mini 2011 mid version.
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I am creating a sequence from a clip from extendscript code to automateToSequence function.
But if there are some in and out points in the clip only the select clip part is converted as a sequence, what is the solution to remove all those in and out points from extendscript code, or to get the full clip to sequence even there are some in and out points.
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Which Mini exactly, some cannot use 10.8?
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          •          MacBook Air – late 2008 and newer
          •          iMac – models from mid 2007 and newer
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          •          Mac Mini – early 2009 and newer
          •          Mac Pro – early 2008 models and newer
          •          XServe – early 2009 models and newer
Macs that are NOT expected to support OS X Mountain Lion
Older Macs and those with weaker GPU’s will likely be left behind:
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          •          Anything with an ATI Radeon X1600
          •          MacBook models released prior to 2008
          •          Mac Mini released prior to 2007
          •          iMac models released prior to 2007
          •          Original MacBook Air
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http://osxdaily.com/2012/02/16/os-x-10-8-mountain-lion-system-requirements/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X_Mountain_Lion
http://eshop.macsales.com/owcpages/osx-mtnlion/mac_os_guide.html
http://roaringapps.com/apps:table

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You can use iCloud with 10.7.5. You do not need to upgrade to Yosemite. You should provide a minimum of 15 GBs of free space or 10% of the hard drive's capacity, whichever is greater.
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1. See Lion/Mountain Lion/Mavericks' Storage Display.
2. You can remove data from your Home folder except for the /Home/Library/ folder.
3. Visit The XLab FAQs and read the FAQ on freeing up space on your hard drive.
4. Also see Freeing space on your Mac OS X startup disk.
5. See Where did my Disk Space go?.
6. See The Storage Display.
You must Empty the Trash in order to recover the space they occupied on the hard drive.
You should consider replacing the drive with a larger one. Check out OWC for drives, tutorials, and toolkits.
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I recently got a os reload to mountain lion from snow leopard. I backed up all photos on a thumb drive-Now all backed up photo's come up as an alias?? How to correct??

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Hi everyone,
I have an SSD (used as the system disk) in my iMac, and after noticing that its lifespan (according to S.M.A.R.T.) has ticked down a bit, I started looking at what's writing to the system disk, using iostat, iotop, and fs_usage.
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YOu can get it stop by going to ~/Library/Saved Application State/TextEdit (by example) and delete that file…
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