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andreab35

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May 29, 2008
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Hi guys!

As part of my business, I just received a white 2.1 GHz MacBook. It's in excellent shape.
When I received it, it was running pretty sluggish. Therefore, I went to reinstall Leopard.
However, I'm now having a lot of trouble.

Before I proceeded to install Leopard, I used the disk utility on the install disk to wipe out the hard drive. It did that fine.
Then, I went to install Leopard on a clean hard drive.
Well... 2 1/2 hours pass by and this thing is stuck at the installation. I waited a bit more, but I can tell it was truly stuck.
So I started it up again without the disk, thinking it was just a glitch. I get the folder with a ?, which mean it really wasn't finished.
Popped the disk back in, went to the disk utility to wipe out the drive again, and this is where I'm stuck:

I don't have a single partition on the drive. I can't even create one. When I attempt to, I get the error, "Resource Busy." Does it all the time, and I can't get it to go away.

Can anyone provide me with a little advice on which direction I should go?
Thank you! :eek:
 
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