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1. Installing mac new hard drive install#
2. Installing mac new hard drive pro#

Installing mac new hard drive install#

I put the new hd (western digital 320gb) then reboot on osX installation DVD, when the moment comes to install I cant select the hd. I am having the exact problem as you did guys. Just click "Erase" in the Disk Utility when you have the hard drive highlighted. After just a few seconds I was able to restart the computer, I held the option key to boot from disk and voila! I installed OS X Leopard on my new hard drive and am happily typing this for all those who have a similar problem. I clicked "Erase" and lo and behold, the new hard drive was being formatted right before my eyes. But after fiddling for awhile I decided to bite the bullet (there was no mention of clicking "Erase" as a viable solution to my problem in any of the forums/blogs/support pages that I could find). The only clickable thing was "Erase" which didn't make sense to me because it was a new disk and erasing it would do no good.

When I opened Disk Utilities (in the upper left hand side of the screen when booting Leopard disk), I was able to see that I had indeed installed the drive but, as I already mentioned, no formatting options were clickable. Tried to boot up from the install disk and it wouldn't recognize the drive, nor give me formatting options at all.

Installing mac new hard drive pro#

I had a similar problem.Macbook Pro 2 GHz Intel Core Duo, went balls to the wall and replaced hard drive with new Western Digital 500gb hard drive.