I have Snow Leopard upgraded on my Macbook since last year & was ecstatic with it’s speed. However I recently discovered that 64-bit mode of the kernel is turned off by default. Finally I found the solution after googling. Please follow this steps:
1. In Terminal:
ioreg -l -p IODeviceTree | grep firmware-abi
If this says “EFI32″, you are done don’t read further. Your hardware doesn’t support 64 bit. If it says “EFI64″; go to Next step. Read the rest of this entry »
I recently ran into issue with the HP usb drive, which was working fine on the Windows machine & wasn’t recognized on the macbook (with snow leopard). (Happens due to different USB drive formatting ways depending on the OS)
Follow simple steps to resolve this issue:
Connect your USB drive; Go to Applications -> Utilities
Open DiskUtility.app
Select your drive & choose erase using FAT option & you are done