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Thanks for all the help, and thanks again for not flaming me for such an RTFM question. I would be at a complete dead end without your information. Here is what I've been through in the past few hours trying to get this to work: tried to format a logical disk within Windows on which to install Snow Leopard tried without success to install the OS on the Windows-created partition downloaded Nawcom's BootCD realized I'd already downloaded and burnt it to disk last year found out that I needed a 3rd party utility to format the disk as anything other than NTFS downloaded and burned GParted formatted the drive- incorrectly- as FAT32 reformatted as HFS+ installed SL got a boot0:error message after the OS took 60 minutes out of the estimated 30 minute installation time So after jumping through all these hoops now I find out I have to use something called unifail to get past this error If I didn't already hate the way Apple does business in general, especially with regards to restricting the allowable hardware, I certainly would after all this. Truthfully, if I wasn't trying to learn this to increase my professional skills and widen my employment prospects I would never have bothered. I think I will regret to my dying day that I never had the chance to meet Steve Jobs and kick his ass on stage at MacWorld . Anyway, I'm going to try to get this finished with unifail. If you have any further suggestions I would be most grateful. Thanks again.

Hi, First off I apologize if this topic has already been covered. I'm handling a lot of things right now and the cursory forum searches I've had time to do either turn up too many keyword hits or a few results that don't seem to pertain to my problem. I just got a used D620 from a friend whose company is upgrading their equipment. It's running the A10 bios and appears to have all settings at factory default. I'm trying to install Snow Leopard from an Apple retail installation DVD and everytime I try I get a warning that no bootable device exists. I tested the dvd drive and hdd by installing Windows 7 x64, which completed without issue, so I know that they both work (I wiped the drive afterwards by plugging it into the external dock on my main Win7 box and doing a quick format), but the dvd drive just doesn't recognize the disk.. It's worth noting that when I tried to install CentOS 6.4 it started the installation but hung up on an interactive screen where I was expected to hit enter to move to the next step, but no matter how many times I hit enter, or how long I waited after hitting enter just once, the process never moved past this screen. What is going wrong here? Shouldn't this drive recognize these disks? The installation guides mention creating a bootable usb key to start the insallation, but they all seem to presume that you don't have an actual oem disk, which I do. Do I still need the usb key to do this? From what my web searches have turned up, if this was an actual Mac laptop the OS should install, but then if I had an actual Mac I wouldn't be here, would I? Has anybody else encountered this? Can anybody tell me what the problem is? Thanks.