Hi all,

I had bought a new hard disk for my mac book pro 17, after i replace my spoil hard drive and replace a new physical hard drive. I fail to install the mac OS for my mac book

any idea for this case

so sad now

did you format the drive to hsf+ ?

send it to me i'm a IT Engineer with reasonable price

What OS X version are you trying to install ?

U failed ok....but at which stage ? Are you using a thumb, disk .... what errors are you receiving ? did u format the hdd ? u will have an option to use the disk utility to format the hdd at the beginning of the installation process.....

The information given is not enough, what kind of error you are getting. What version of osx you're trying to install? Etc..

if it was sent to mac service centre, it will never happened.

my existing hard drive was dead, then i replace a new hard drive

i had a mac ox X (snow leopard) cd which came together with my mac. I change my new hard drive, when i insert the cd into the cd dirve and start install. It came a folder with question mark and keep flashing there.

@vvlp,
1. insert the DVD.
2. start up the mac, and immediately press n hold down the Option key.
3. Wait for the Mac to read the Installer and start up from there.
4. If not working, come back here and let us know

I had try the method which you provide tome but no luck with me
when i insert dvd into the cd drive it start running then eject the dvd

Try get an external USB DVD drive, put the CD into it instead.

If still cant, pm me, I can do for you with the minimum charges.

Urm, u need to format ur new hdd first. u got format already?

Format can be done with the disk utility once the installler has started.
Ts situation is... Cant even get the installer to begin.

_ is the dvd still good
- have u connected the hdd correctly
- is ur dvd rom good
- more than one hardware can get spoilt at the same time
- it looks as if ur bios is kicking in, but no OS to be detected, check the disk and dvd rom
- try a few times, ur SL disc is old, could be un-readable

Give us clear and exact information. When u are doing it for the first time... Nothing is smooth.

where are you located?




i still think for peace of mind, going to mac service centre is better.

Anyone else have mac near you? Create a usb installer and boot up from the usb. Easy peasy.

what do u mean by fail to install?