New hard drive

[flame3379]

I just recently bought both a momentus xt hard drive and a refurbished macbookpro 15 anti glare. i was wonder can i install snow leopard in the new drive? O:

 

[spinnerlys]

Yes.

Clean Install of OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard

 

[aimbdd]

Definitely clean install. People have had problems trying to clone it.

 

[Bill Gates]

Definitely clean install. People have had problems trying to clone it.

The OP could also restore from a Time Machine backup if he has one.

 

[flame3379]

Sweet thanks everyone, now quick question....

So i just take out the old one and place in the new one with the osx disk inside correct?

 

[spinnerlys]

Sweet thanks everyone, now quick question....

So i just take out the old one and place in the new one with the osx disk inside correct?

Yes.

MacBook, MacBook Pro: Replacing the Hard Disk Drive, transferring data to the new HDD

 

[Bill Gates]

Sweet thanks everyone, now quick question....

So i just take out the old one and place in the new one with the osx disk inside correct?

Yes. Avoid touching the underside of the drive (the PCB) during installation. When the installer loads, you'll need to open Disk Utility to format the drive (HFS+ Journaled with a GUID partition table).

 

[nonlocal]

When the installer loads, you'll need to open Disk Utility to format the drive (HFS+ Journaled with a GUID partition table).

A question if I may, thought I'd ask here instead of a new one.
If I was to replace the hd with an Intel ssd (and do a clean install), should I first update the drive's firmware and then format it that exact way?

 

[mac8867]

A question if I may, thought I'd ask here instead of a new one.
If I was to replace the hd with an Intel ssd (and do a clean install), should I first update the drive's firmware and then format it that exact way?

Yes