How would that happen though?
I pulled the drive out of my Dell laptop. There was no way to format it, as the mini can only hold one drive. When I took my OEM mini drive out and put the Dell drive in, the best I could do was to get the OS X install CD to fire up. OS X itself never booted from the CD, only the install program. There were no menus or anyway to access things from OS X.
That's why I had to get crafty and install OS X on a firewiredrive and boot to that so I could then go back and format the drive. If I did not have an external drive, I'm not sure what I could have done.
FWIW, Windoze, being the cancerous OS that it is, was only too happy to take whatever drive I placed in the Dell and blast it with NTFS.
My Panther CDs would not boot my mini. And my Tiger upgrade would only work on a drive that already had some form of OS X on it.
All I had was the OEM grey Mac Mini OS X install CD.
Maybe I missed it, but I saw no way to invoke the Disk Utility.
I pulled the drive out of my Dell laptop. There was no way to format it, as the mini can only hold one drive. When I took my OEM mini drive out and put the Dell drive in, the best I could do was to get the OS X install CD to fire up. OS X itself never booted from the CD, only the install program. There were no menus or anyway to access things from OS X.
That's why I had to get crafty and install OS X on a firewiredrive and boot to that so I could then go back and format the drive. If I did not have an external drive, I'm not sure what I could have done.
FWIW, Windoze, being the cancerous OS that it is, was only too happy to take whatever drive I placed in the Dell and blast it with NTFS.
My Panther CDs would not boot my mini. And my Tiger upgrade would only work on a drive that already had some form of OS X on it.
All I had was the OEM grey Mac Mini OS X install CD.
Maybe I missed it, but I saw no way to invoke the Disk Utility.