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Mac Mini HD Upgrade Format Question
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liq2
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Dec 2, 2009, 01:00 PM
 
Going to be upgrading my fresh out of the box mac mini on friday. I have not used the mini at all, but am installing a 500gb hitachi drive into it for a media center setup I'm building.

Question on the upgrade and I have heard varied responses from apple store employees. Because the new drive is fresh out of the box, do I need to format it before installing snow leopard via another machine first. i had one guy tell me that i need to hook it up to my imac first and format it as an OSX Extended Journal first.

Can't I just install the drive, boot from CD and format it during the install off the cd or do I have to configure it while attached to my imac and then install OSX from CD?

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Dec 2, 2009, 02:01 PM
 
That guy doesn't know what he is talking about. Just install the drive, boot from the OS disk, and format the drive from there using Disk Utility within the installer.

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