I feel like I'm doing something wrong here. I replaced the HDD of my friends iMac and got it all back together. I had made a bootable USB HDD to install OSX back off of so I hold the options key and it only shows me the external HDD to boot from. I select it, go through the language and it gives me "Mac OSX Can't Be Installed on this computer" So I was researching that and found out I had to go into the disk utility and partition it out correctly as mentioned here: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1600 That worked fine, however; now when I restart it to try and boot to the USB again I don't get anything. If I just let it boot it goes to the blinking folder w/ question mark. If I hold the options key it goes to the white screen with a black cursor. I've tried to reset PRAM, I've tried Option+command+shift+delete to force it to bypass internal and boot to external and nothing. I don't understand how it works then I partition the internal drive then it all the sudden doesn't work? What am I missing?
Thanks.
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