chopsncheese Posted July 31, 2011 Posted July 31, 2011 Hi im a complete noob to mac. I have been given a macmini 2006,1.66ghz core duo by my parents as they have upgraded to a imac 2010.when she bought it from the shop she was told it was the last one they had and it came with no disks.?i have been reading on the net and some say my model comes preinstalled and on others it says i need a 4 disks that do the install....im so confused.basically i want to wipe it as it still has my parents details etc.can anyone tell me wether there should be disks for it or if its preinstalled how do i access it and reformat it.much thanks for any help given as im stumped......HELP!! Quote
Geek Posted August 1, 2011 Posted August 1, 2011 Best thing you can do is get yourself a copy of OSX and install it. Just make sure you get a retail copy and not an upgrade. Upgrades will only work if you have OSX already installed. Quote
chopsncheese Posted August 1, 2011 Author Posted August 1, 2011 Ive tried two different ones one says its not compatable its 10.4 and ive tried tiger osx 10.4.5 i click it it says its resarting and then just reboots back into normal screen and does nothind.surely it should have come with an install dvd which i keep reading about.hut because its been nearly 5 and a half years i very much doubt contacting the shop will be futile lol.i dont even know how to format it as disk utilities wont highlight the format page? Its driving me crazy as ive always used windows which im pretty clued up on hardware and software wise. Quote
Geek Posted August 2, 2011 Posted August 2, 2011 My mini is the same year and I have 10.6 on it. Are you sure you have a copy compatible with an Intel processor? It sound to me like you are trying to install a PPC version on an Intel box. Quote
chopsncheese Posted August 2, 2011 Author Posted August 2, 2011 Oh right ......did yours come with a install dvd? My mac mini is early 2006 apparently there wereo two versions brought Quote
Geek Posted August 2, 2011 Posted August 2, 2011 Mine had an install dvd. I've never had to reload the OS on it so I don't know if it works. Quote
chopsncheese Posted August 3, 2011 Author Posted August 3, 2011 I wish you could post a link and upload it for the poor people like me stuck in limbo. Thanks for your advice tho.thinking about just buying an external harddrive a putting windows on it lol. Quote
MACMINIQUIQUE46 Posted September 23, 2011 Posted September 23, 2011 Hi I've just installed Windows 7 on my MACMINI With "PARALLELS DESKTOP" It won't allow you to install Windows itself on external hd:( But you can install Windows software in it. I'm new here and I hope I'll find a lot of help and friends here:) Take care and welcome here:) Quote
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