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New Hard Drive in macbook

  • 11-08-2011 11:45am
    #1
    atilladehun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭


    Hi,

    My friend tried to resurrect his macbook yesterday with a new hard drive. He physically installed the drive but we can't install the OS. We tried the Tiger disc he owns but we keep getting an input/output error when we try to use the disc utility to erase it.

    I have Snow Leopard on a USB and we were able to format the drive but we were not able to install because there was not enough RAM.

    However when we tried to install from the cd after the format Disc Utility returned to the previous message.

    Obviously we would like the most up to date OS but anything to start from will do.

    Thank you.


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  • #2
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,698 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    How much RAM does the machine have? Snow Leopard requires 1GB.

    Have you tried installing Leopard now that the drive has been formatted?


  • #3
    atilladehun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭atilladehun


    Yeah,

    I don't have a copy of leopard. I did think of that. Either that or I'll try get him to get some more RAM. Is crucial still the cheapest place to buy?

    Thanks for the help.


  • #4
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,698 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Sorry, I meant Tiger. Did you try reinstalling Tiger after formatting the HDD using the SL disc?


  • #5
    atilladehun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,657 ✭✭✭atilladehun


    Yeah I have. It still doesn't recognise a destination drive. When I go into Disc utility with Tiger Disc in the name on the drive says it has 1.8TB when it is actually a 250GB.

    I was wondering if I swapped ram with him, installed SL and then switched it back. Would leopard not start or does it just need to recognise it to install.


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