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Installing a new HDD

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Maverick713

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Jun 14, 2009
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I wanted to know if anyone else noticed this, when you put in a new hard drive (mine is a Hitachi) just swap it it is not recognized? Its not like windows throw in a new drive and bam you're done. I actually had to boot up the old drive hook up the blank drive one and format it for it to be recognized.
 
Yep, that's normal, as many drives are not formatted or if they are, they use a Windows file system like FAT32 or NTFS, which is not suitable for Mac OS X as a place to store itself on. Thus you have to format it. But you can also use the restore/retail/upgrade DVD of Mac OS X to do that.
 
If you've computer that doesn't have an OS, I don't think any computer would be able to use an unformatted drive.
 
Er... you put a new, unformatted drive (without an OS installed, I assume) into your MBP and then tried to boot from it?
 
alphaod said:
If you've computer that doesn't have an OS, I don't think any computer would be able to use an unformatted drive.
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when I have bought them in the past for my windows machines just slap it in and windows does the rest, OS X didn't even see it to format it.
 
Install the new drive and boot with the restore discs that came with your Mac. From there you can use Disk Utility to format and partition the new drive. Simple!
 
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