Snow Leopard install Crashed on MBP with broken superdrive

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So, I have an old Mac Book Pro (circa 2006) that had become sluggish and old, so I wanted to completely reformat it and use it purely for Logic Mainstage.

The superdrive stopped working about a year and a half ago, so I wirelessly (a not so great idea, I now realise) connected to my iMacs superdrive and began installing Snow Leopard. However, the install crashed 3/4 of the way through and now the MBP shuts itself down after spending around 5 minutes on the grey apple/spinning disc logo on startup.


It seems like a lost cause but is there any way to fix this?


Thanks
 
Reload the OS from another Mac over Firewire. Boot the MBP in Target Disk mode by holding the T key down on boot and it will show up on the other machine as a disk on which to do the install.
 
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