Use the free MacTracker to find your model of Mac, you can gleam the model from your Apple Menu > About this Mac > More information and look for something like "MacBook Pro 3,1" and punch that into MacTracker.
Use the correct 10.6 disk to install Snow Leopard If your here because you want to secure erase data better than writing Zero's acorss the selected hard drive or partition (good enough for most folks), this tip doesn't cover that, see this one then come back here afterwards. If your here because you have a problem and you think erasing and reinstalling is going to solve it, it most certainly will, but you might not need to go this far and you might want to recover data off the non-booting drive first.Ĭreate a data recovery, undelete boot drive If your here because you upgraded to 10.7 Lion and want to go back to 10.6 Snow Leopard you need to see this thread.Ī little more preparation is in order to make sure your files work in Snow Leopard.
However, this route is made quite tricky by the fact that most VM software will refuse to install non-server editions of Snow Leopard, due to a licensing restriction that Apple lifted starting with Lion.You need to erase and install 10.6 Snow Leopard, I will show you how to do this. There also appears to be an image of this DVD in the Internet Archive's Software Library, but I cannot personally vouch for its authenticity.Īnother option is to install your DVD inside of a VM, upgrade to 10.6.8 within the VM, and then clone the VM to your hard disk. The disk you're looking for has part number MC573Z/A. So, one thing you could try is tracking down a 10.6.3 installation DVD, on eBay or similar. If you have an earlier DVD, that may explain why the OS is unable to boot. Therefore, there's a good chance that earlier versions of Snow Leopard (10.6.0–10.6.2) will not contain the necessary drivers for your machine, and will be impossible to install.Īpple released at least two retail Snow Leopard installation DVDs-I own one which comes with 10.6.0, and one which comes with 10.6.3. According to Anderson (thanks!), the 2010 iMac came preinstalled with Snow Leopard 10.6.3.
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