Following Sam's advice from last year I just upgrade ti a 27" fusion drive machine which is fantastic, and the migration of my data to the new machine went well via Ethernet. I now have a 2008 iMac which I updated with 4 GB of Ram and a 1TB hard drive for sale
However, when following the Apple guidance "What to do before selling your Mac" http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5189 I appear to have got in a mess after over writing the drive with zeros, I am unable to reinstall the OS from the original Snow Leopard DVD. If I follow the guidance below ========= (which I think Sam posted some time ago) the machine appears to install the OS but on completion I get a white screen that contains the Apple logo beneath which is a spinning gear icon and it just sits in that condition until I pull the plug on the machine, (No keyboard key combinations that I am aware of will do anything. Any ideas? Thanks, Steve. ================================================================================= Reboot with the original installer DVD in, holding down C. That'll boot from the DVD. Choose Disk Utility from the Installer or Utilities menu (depending on OS version) and then click on the internal hard drive device (not the name of the volume, usually "Macintosh HD", the hardware device one level above it) click on Options then select Zero format. Erase the disk that way then when it's finished, run the OS installer as normal and then when it's finished, reboot. When you hear the startup chime, hold the power button down until the powerbook switches off. That way the next person to switch it on will get the user setup screen. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
