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I am trying to re-install Tiger on the drive that came with my Mac Mini, but cannot. I erase and partition the drive (Mac OS Extended - journaled), and when I reboot, it asks for the startup disk and the drive does not show up as an option. I get a message that says OS X cannot be installed on this drive. Nothing was done to the drive. I put in a larger one and put the OS on that one, then I just erased the original one and used it as an external drive, but now I want to put the original back in and use it as the OS drive internally, and it will not find it as an option to install on. No jumpers were changed.
Your help is greatly appreciated.

bryPT:
You said everything is the same except for RAM, but you also said you replaced the original drive with a larger one & put the original into an external case. To clear things up, where is the original drive now?
You also say that now the installer DVD is stuck in the mini.
Putting all this together, it seems like you should at least consider the possibility that you have not reassembled the mini correctly and/or damaged something in it during your swap(s).

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