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OliJenkins

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Mar 6, 2019
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Windsor
Hi everyone,

Hope you're well this is my first post here.

I have an old A1181 MacBook running OS X 10.6.8 Snow Leopard which i am looking to wipe and sell.

I have made a USB Boot Drive using Disk Utility and a Snow Leopard .dmg. Restored in the correct way OS Extended Journaled, GUID Partition. Also a few other variations.

However when i startup and hold the Option Key i am only presented with my internal HDD. No online recovery or USB drive.

Im afraid my CD drive no longer works. I have tried both USB sockets. I have also tried using a terminal code to force boot it from USB but it started the same as before. I forget what the code was now.

Is there anyway of doing this outside of Recovery Mode? Ie fresh install and data erased.

Cheers

Oli
 

BLUEDOG314

macrumors 6502
Dec 12, 2015
379
120
Did you try clearing the NVRAM, sometimes that has to do with bootable volumes not showing.
 
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