NEED A DIFFERENT WAY TO INSTALL SNOW LEOPARD

I bought Snow Leopard from the Store... was extremely happy to get it... I put it in my dvd drive... and found out that my dvd drive is corrupted and can't read dvds because of a firmware update. Tried for ages to get the Snow Cat in my drive but I don't know how.
I've heard ideas like installing it with a virtual cd from an external hard drive and installing it using another computer's dvd drive.
I could borrow or buy an external dvd drive but I first want to find a way to try to get Snow Leopard installed and I don't want to buy a dvd drive if I'm going to use it once and I'm kind of shy and don't like borrowing stuff from people but If i have to I will.
Does anyone have a way I can install Snow Leopard?... I have the new 10.6.3 Snow Leopard Install DVD, a Macbook, and an external harddrive with a usb connection. If someone can find me a way I would be EXTREMELY thankfull! I can't believe its right in front of me but I can't install it!!!

It looks like i might need to obtain an external dvd drive or an firewar cable.
@brody: I didn't think so either but actually this problem isn't only just with me but a lot of other people I know and online. the drive is a Matshita dvd drive with the code 857... i think. The firmware update 2.1 was supposed to reduce the noise of the dvd drive but instead it disabled some users the readibility of most dvds... this corruption came to a heavy cost at my school since they had to replace most dvd drives. It still works, it can suck in and spit out cds and dvds. it can read cds pretty well and some commercial dvds. but for some reason the snow leopard isn't being accepted. I don't think its because the drive got dirty but I might give it a clean anyway. there is no way I'm under warranty because I bought this laptop from my school but I know that the laptop was handled nicely because I was the only one using that laptop.

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Need help in installing Snow Leopard without DVD drive

Hi,
I have a White Macbook 2008 model with 2.1 ghz processor and 1 GB Ram. The dvd rom is not working in my machine. It spits out the dvd's 99 out of 100 times.
I need to upgrade from 10.5.8 to 10.6. Apple has sent me a single disk to install snow leopard.
I am not willing to invest in new dvd drive either internal or external. Needed help on ways to install snow leopard please apart from using the dvd option.
I do have a Firewire 400 cable but i do not know anybody anymore who has a mac machine with 400 port.
Hence the cable is also useless and i cannot connect to anyother macbook and do the install using their drive.
Please suggest.
Regards,
Rahul

There are no direct options. Find a friend with a Mac that has a working optical drive. Buy an 8GB USB flash drive. Partition and format it for the Mac then clone the mounted DVD to the flash drive. Take it back to your computer and boot from the flash drive.
Boot Using OPTION key:
1. Restart the computer.
2. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the
"OPTION" key.
3. Release the key when the boot manager appears.
4. Select the disk icon for the flash drive.
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Why can't I install Snow Leopard on my videos hard drive?

I have a Mac Pro with four hard drives. Lion is on the primary drive but I need Snow Leopard for a legacy app. My plan is to install Snow Leopard on a hard drive that I use for video projects, and then restart from that drive when I need to use the old app. The problem is that the Snow Leopard installation disk says that it can't install onto the videos hard drive unless I partition the hard drive, which will erase all the data. Why can't it install onto the videos hard drive? There's no operating system on that hard drive. The hard drive has folders for Final Cut Express Projects, iMovie Events, iMovie Projects, DVDs movies I've ripped, a folder of music, and an iDVD project. What do I need to remove to enable installing Snow Leopard?

If I understand what you are saying you have a drive with "stuff" already on it and you want to install a version of OSX on to it while still retaining that "stuff". If that's what you want to do you cannot do that mainly because there's already "stuff" on that drive.
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b. Copy the "stuff" off that drive on to another drive. Partition the drive into at least 2 partitions; one for the boot and one for the "stuff". Install the OS into one of the partitions. Copy the "stuff" back to the other partition.
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Restart the computer with the disk in the drive and the C key held down and install Snow Leopard onto a blank partition or drive. If needed, use the Disk Utility to repartition or erase the internal one.
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MBP: DVD reader (or workaround) to install Snow Leopard?

Hello. I have a MacBook Pro and I am looking for a way to upgrade to Snow Leopard. A little background...I'm having an issue with not being able to restart my computer without the concern that it won't turn back on. If I'm lucky the computer will turn on immediately, other times it may turn on after being completely shut off for 30 minutes. Then there are times when it may take a few days or weeks to turn on after multiple attempts. My warranty has expired and after speaking to an associate at Best Buy they suggested I install Snow Leopard to resolve the issue. So of course, I purchased Snow Leopard because I need the OS for other programs as well. When I tried to install it I realized that my disc drive is for CDs and not DVDs. I have googled an external DVD reader for Macs but the results are showing for DVD burners. Is there a way to install Snow Leopard externally or a way around this? Please help! Thank you.
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Also DVD burners that are built-in to the Mac also have built-in DVD reading capability. Very few external DVD burners don't have DVD boot capability. A few are very old, and need a firmware update, or to have their lense cleaned before they can boot a DVD disc. 'C' key booting is not always successful regardless of the health of the drive, and you may need to do Option key booting with the startup manager:
http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n106178
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New SSD on the way, want to install Snow Leopard. What disc do I need?

Hi,
I have a 2008 Mac Pro, currently running Leopard 10.5.8 but along with the Snow Leopard OS I have ordered a 128GB SSD that will be my primary boot drive from the moment it arrives.
Since the Mac Pro has 4 slots for hard drives I will just throw out an old 200GB SATA HD and put my current 1TB bootdrive in its place.
My SSD will be installed and I plan on installing snow leopard on it without prior erasing of my Leopard 1TB disk.
How can I even accomplish this?
It seems that (this is what I have taken from a few threads around here) I will need to have Leo installed to use the upgrade disc (which I qualify for, technically).
When I want to install Snow Leo on a fresh hard drive, is there a step in the installation that simple asks to put in our Leopard disc so the installer verifies we have it, then continues with the Snow Leopard install?
Thanks for reading,
I hope some of you can lift this confusion I am having here.
(never thought installing an OS could get this complicated)
M.

You can do what you want with either the $29 or the $9.99 upgrade disk. Leopard does not need to be installed.
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Upgrading is a very sound process on a Mac. An upgrade is performed by installing over your existing installation from the desktop or having started from your SL DVD. All your programs, data, and settings will be present after an upgrade, but incompatible programs will be archived.
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Help! Lion has basically paralyzed my system. It takes 10 to 15 minutes to open a folder, to open Applications, Safari freezes and won't let me sign into the forums (I'm on a different computer). I tried to re-install Snow Leopard, but no go!

Basics - 2008 iMac, 2.8 Ghz, 4 Gig RAM, 500 Gig HDD with over 100 Gig free. DId Disk Utility verification and files-disk are fine. Programs will run, but any filing just stops everything (spinning beach ball). I've managed to back up some major content to an external HD, and hopefully, despite the inordinate amount of time it takes, I'll be able to off-load more. But how do I get Lion to work or, alternatively, other than completely erasing the HD, how do I re-install Snow Leopard?

Your upgrade must have failed. Unless you very very recently upgraded Lion, as in the last hour or two. Then you need to go to System Preferences and Energy Saver and stop it from automatically sleeping. Let it sit overnight. It could be spotlight re-indexing your disk and slowing you way way down.
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I have created a new partition on the Mac HD for Lion as I would like to dual boot. Do I need to install Snow Leopard on that partition before installing Lion? If so, can I use one of my Time Machine backups to do this?

I have created a new partition on the Mac HD for Lion as I would like to dual boot. Do I need to install Snow Leopard on that partition before installing Lion? If so, can I use one of my Time Machine backups to do this?

zoominnana wrote:
Can I set up 2 different time capsule backups? one for the lion partition and one for the snow leopard partition?
No, you can't partition a Time Capsule's internal HD. Both partitions will back up to the same sparse bundle. keeping the backups for each partition separate.
Time Machine will not take the two OSX partitions as two different computers, but for best results, exclude the Snow Leopard drive from backups on the Lion partition, and exclude the Lion partition from backups on the Snow Leopard partition.
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IMac i7 need to install snow leopard NOT Lion - Will it allow the install of 10.6?

I have a bit of a quirk to deal with, a client has a Snow Leopard Network but just recently had a replacement iMac i7 delivered for a previous box from earlier in the year. The IT Contractor is stating that the machine can only take Lion and will not install Snow Leopard. The problem is there is some FileMaker issues that have come up with some deep level custom functions that have exposed a critical problem and the machine needs to run Snow Leopard. This would be until the work around is developed for the software solution or FMI comes out with the next version of FileMaker resolving the issue.
Is the IT Contract full of it ? If not is there a way to force the iMac i7 to accept a Snow Leopard installation ?

For years Macs have not be able to run earlier versions of OS X than they originally shipped with so this is nothing new. It also makes a lot of sense when you think of it, one of the reasons Mac's run so well is the software and hardware are optimized to run well together. Attempting to install an earlier version of OS X than what the machine was designed for is technically possible but it also comes with significant risks because you're then dealing with a system that wasn't designed to run well together...in other words you're emulating the MS Windows world. While there can be some temporary inconvenience as you're experiencing in this case Apple makes these decisions for a reason. While not always obvious to we end users but there are good reasons none the less.

Need to install Snow Leopard--seems complicated. Can I pay Apple store to do it?

While I'm mostly a right brain type (writer), I can still do a lot of semi-geeky on my Mac Book Pro and even recently figured out how to rescue my mother's iMac from the "death screen" by using some keyboard shortcuts after unplugging all her cords. (After that feat of techno-heroism I was immediately written back into her will.)
Having said THAT, for some reason, the idea of installing a new operating system myself freaks me out. I have this fear that my 4-year-old MacBook Pro is going to crash, or something almost as bad will happen. (Yes, of course, I would back it up first.)
Every "guide" I read about installing Snow Leopard starts out simple, then it starts to look complicated. "If you want this, then don't do this..." If you don't want this, then do this..." etc.
Also, I may not even be able to do it anyway as my DVD drive doesn't work anymore. Won't I need that to work anyway--or a tech person for that matter--in order to be able to install the installtion disc?
OR WILL I NEED TO GET THE DRIVE FIXED FIRST? DOES ANYONE KNOW HOW MUCH THAT WILL COST TO GET THIS FIXED?
At this point, I would be willing to pay someone $50 to do it (a pro of course). Can I pay an Apple store tech person to install it for me? At the same time they can run a diagnostic and maybe figure out a way for me to remove duplicate files and all that junk that I have filling up up my hard drive.
I need to do this ASAP because I am limited in my speed in selling on eBay (I also sell vintage and designer clothes) because I can't bulk list upload, etc.
Please, can someone help? Would an Apple store do this for me if I paid them? I would have more peace of mind if they did it.
Thanks!

After posting my concern/question, especially in regards to the optical drive, I read this on this forum:
Jul 11, 2011 5:21 AM
I would like to update my macbook pro from Tiger to Snow Leopard, but my optical drive is not working. Can I take my macbook pro into the apple store and have them install it via a portable drive?
MacBook Pro, Optical drive is no longer working
Another poster replied, "Yes, I believe they will."
Is this true? Can someone verify this? Any idea of cost? I really don't need my optical drive. Besides, end of year, I'm getting a new Mack Book Pro.

Hello, I have try to install Snow Leopard but when I am checking the section"about this computer" is show me the same soft OS x 10.5.8. Is it that normal or it must appear a different soft there. Please also advice what to do, because I have tried twice.

Hello, I have try to install Snow Leopard but when I checking the section"about this computer" is show me the same soft OS x 10.5.8. Is it that normal or it must appear a different soft there. Please also advice what to do, because I have tried twice.
Thanks

These places,
MacBook Pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro
https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os?view=discussions
http://www.apple.com/support/macbookpro
You need to buy 10.6.x DVD or flash drive (w/ Lion or Mountain Lion).
Check Apple Store or call.

Need help installing Snow Leopard.

Need help installing Snow Leopard on a 2009 iMac. Hard drive is only choice for location and message says hard drive can't be used because it is used for Time Machine backups. Ultimate goal is to upgrade to OS 10.6.8.

Check to see if you have a file called backup.backupdb
If you do that means at some time in the past Time Machine was configure to backup to that drive
If that is not where you want your backup to to go, and it should not be stored there any way, then delete it and the install should work then.
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