Hey guys, yesterday I was able to pickup a MacPro A1186 EMC 2180 for a decent price ($160.00).
It didn't come with a hard drive so I took to the forums to plan out my next steps. I tried to install a Sandisk SSD drive but the SSD doesn't mate well with the MacPro drive holder and my 3.5" adapter that I have doesn't work as nice as it should.
I threw in a seagate 7200rpm drive, used Transmac to create the El Capitan image on my windows machine.
I plugged both in, turned on the unit and held down the ALT/Option key.
The screen gave me a icon for installing El Capitan and then a loading bar appeared. The bar went about halfway and then prompted me with a circle and a line through it without any messages.
I dug around on the net last night trying to figure it out and seem's others have had this issue before.
What I did to try to remedy this was to remove the drive, delete all the partitions and set the drive as GPT.
That didn't work. I am unsure if I need the ones windows hard drive to be formatted in a specific manner to be able to install the OS?
Could my USB drive be not formatted properly? I did the same thing a few days ago when I was putting Leopard on a usb stick and it worked fine.
Thank you
It didn't come with a hard drive so I took to the forums to plan out my next steps. I tried to install a Sandisk SSD drive but the SSD doesn't mate well with the MacPro drive holder and my 3.5" adapter that I have doesn't work as nice as it should.
I threw in a seagate 7200rpm drive, used Transmac to create the El Capitan image on my windows machine.
I plugged both in, turned on the unit and held down the ALT/Option key.
The screen gave me a icon for installing El Capitan and then a loading bar appeared. The bar went about halfway and then prompted me with a circle and a line through it without any messages.
I dug around on the net last night trying to figure it out and seem's others have had this issue before.
What I did to try to remedy this was to remove the drive, delete all the partitions and set the drive as GPT.
That didn't work. I am unsure if I need the ones windows hard drive to be formatted in a specific manner to be able to install the OS?
Could my USB drive be not formatted properly? I did the same thing a few days ago when I was putting Leopard on a usb stick and it worked fine.
Thank you
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