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Are you using a retail OS X install disk? You can not use an OEM install disk from one Mac on a different model.
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Are you using a retail OS X install disk? You can not use an OEM install disk from one Mac on a different model.

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Yes I am using a retail version. I have been searching everywhere on the internet, and cannot find my problem. When I boot with the DVD It will not recognize my internal drive at all. If I go into utilities and System Profiler it does show the samsung ATA drive. If I go to startup disk it does not show my internal drive. Very weird, Desperate for help!!
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Yes I am using a retail version. I have been searching everywhere on the internet, and cannot find my problem. When I boot with the DVD It will not recognize my internal drive at all. If I go into utilities and System Profiler it does show the samsung ATA drive. If I go to startup disk it does not show my internal drive. Very weird, Desperate for help!!

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Hi there,<br />
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I am trying to do a clean install of Mac OSX 10.6 on a MacBook Air. It currentley has 10.5.8 on it. When I boot into the installer on the DVD and go to disk utilities the local hard disk is not listed only the DVD drive. When I try to continue install the box where I am supposed to shoose the drive to install on is empty also. I cannot figure out why! If I disconnect the DVD drive, and boot up with the system drive, it boots into Mac OS X 10.5.8 no problem and the disk utility shows the system drive there. I verified the drive and it is ok. What is happening here? FYI it is a macbook Air.<br />
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Thanks
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Hi there,

I am trying to do a clean install of Mac OSX 10.6 on a MacBook Air. It currentley has 10.5.8 on it. When I boot into the installer on the DVD and go to disk utilities the local hard disk is not listed only the DVD drive. When I try to continue install the box where I am supposed to shoose the drive to install on is empty also. I cannot figure out why! If I disconnect the DVD drive, and boot up with the system drive, it boots into Mac OS X 10.5.8 no problem and the disk utility shows the system drive there. I verified the drive and it is ok. What is happening here? FYI it is a macbook Air.

Thanks

No system disk in OS X 10.6 installer

Mac OS X is the desktop operating system from Apple Inc., found on Macintosh computers. OS X consists of a Mach/BSD-based kernel, operating system interfaces primarily based on FreeBSD and additional frameworks (written in C, C++ and Objective-C providing user interface and application-level services.