Tried installing OSX from external disc drive...

[marchellobb]

Long story short: my macbook got tolen, police found it, the guy wiped it clean of all info, but a CD is stuck inside (confirmed physical damage).

I'm not interested in paying 300$ to get a new CD drive, I tried hooking up my external CD drive (USB), and my computer recognized the disc. All looked like it was going well, but when I get to the 'select destination' part, the 'Hard Drive' appears very light (as in UNCLICKABLE), so I could'nt select a drive to install OSX on.

HELP?

 

[redwarrior]

I had a similar problem and tried to install it using target disk mode on my daughter's MacBook. I posted here and got several suggestions, but none of them worked. I could never make it work and ended up having to install a new optical drive. I hope you have better luck.

 

[eman]

Did you use "disk utility" on it first and erase and format the drive with one partition in OSX extended journaled"?

 

[ddehr026]

Did you use "disk utility" on it first and erase and format the drive with one partition in OSX extended journaled"?

Yeah definitely seems like it should work no problem. I would go into disk utility while you are running off the cd disc and format the hard drive.

 

[marchellobb]

Maybe it has to do with the fact it says 'Available 100gb, total 145gb' even though the computer was completely restored?

 

[ddehr026]

Maybe it has to do with the fact it says 'Available 100gb, total 145gb' even though the computer was completely restored?

Yeah it seems like you need to format the hard drive for sure.

 

[marchellobb]

I'll try it out next time i get access to my friends' CD drive thanks guys