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Snow Leopard - wipe and reinstall issues...

Hi.

I have a 17" macbook pro, early 2011. It came with Snow Leopard.

I want to wipe my HD clean and start fresh with newly installed OS and then update the OS to most current as possible.

I have the Snow Leopard install disk and also have Snow Leopard mounted to a flash drive. Neither of those sources for the OS will complete an install of the OS.

I boot the computer with option key pressed. I've tried with both the CD and the flash drive. Neither are working. Attempts to reinstall from both OS sources (CD and flash drive) leaves me hanging on the next screen with an Apple.

Am I being too impatient or does it take a very, very long time.

Suggestions?

Posted on Jan 27, 2020 11:24 AM

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The_Knowledge_Seeker

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Posted on Jan 27, 2020 1:01 PM

Try booting into Internet Recovery mode by holding down

Option (⌥) - Command (⌘) – R

..on startup. Then you should be able to perform an install of the latest version of OSX/macOS your Mac can handle.

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