So I'm trying to format the drive and reinstall Snow Leopard with a view to going to the App Store (after installing all of the latest SL versions/updates) and buying Mountain Lion as a $19.95 ...

Click Uninstall to confirm the process. To reinstall it, right-click on DVD/CD-ROM drives, and select Scan for hardware changes. Read: Burn to disc is grayed out; Can’t burn DVD in Windows.

What this tutorial suggests is that you clone the installer DVD to a partition of an external FireWire drive. The resulting clone will exactly reproduce the installer DVD, so you won't need the ...

Sometimes you may need to reinstall OS X on a computer, but the drive is broken, resulting in an obvious problem with reading the installation DVD. Here are some methods to install OS X around a ...