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Uh-Oh...Help Please

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southpaw17

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Mar 22, 2007
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My project for the night was to try to put my new Hitachi 200gb 7200 RPM hard drive in my MBP 1.83 CD. The walk through was easy to follow, but when I turned it on and when I tried to do a clean install OSX it says there is no source disk or whatever, meaning I'm guessing that it did not read the hard drive. Is there any reason that this would happen because of my machine, or could it be a bad drive. I cannot put it in the external enclosure because I am a jackass and bought the kind. Any tips or assistance???

Thanks you very much I am pretty stressed about this.

EDIT: I put the old one back in and it works fine.
 
Oh man, If that is all I have to do I am going to be so pissed at myself. I took it apart like 3 times. Thanks a lot for the help though.
 
I'm in the utiliy now. There are five choices, "First Aid, Erase, Partitoin, RAID, Restore" What do I want to do???
 
Awesome!!!

Installing OS X now!! I'll let you know how it works.

It sucks that somewhere I lost 15 gb of space on the HDD, but it is my understanding that this is normal. Oh well, will still be a HUGE upgrade over the stock 80 gb.
 
southpaw17 said:
Installing OS X now!! I'll let you know how it works.

It sucks that somewhere I lost 15 gb of space on the HDD, but it is my understanding that this is normal. Oh well, will still be a HUGE upgrade over the stock 80 gb.
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the 15gigs lost is due to there being 1024 bytes in a kilobyte (2^10 since computers are binary) as opposed to 1000 bytes(10^3) as you would expect

that is the reason for the discrepancy

sweet how you have it working!
 
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