Re: Help needed for Mac Powerbook M7572, reload

2011-01-25 Thread John Carmonne
On Jan 24, 2011, at 3:15 PM, Kris Tilford wrote: On Jan 24, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Wm. Arnold wrote: I did a dumb thing, I wiped the hard drive of this computer instead of writing all 0's. This doesn't make sense because writing all 0's is wiping the hard drive. You meant you wrote all

Help needed for Mac Powerbook M7572, reload

2011-01-24 Thread Wm. Arnold
Hi experts, I did a dumb thing, I wiped the hard drive of this computer instead of writing all 0's. Now I can't reload an operating system. I have tried several ways including using an external DVD reader. I want to reload Mac OS10.3.2 Panther then OSX10.4 Tiger, both of which I have. Any help

Re: Help needed for Mac Powerbook M7572, reload

2011-01-24 Thread Mike Linnett
On 24 Jan 2011, at 23:03, Wm. Arnold wrote: Hi experts, I did a dumb thing, I wiped the hard drive of this computer instead of writing all 0's. Now I can't reload an operating system. I have tried several ways including using an external DVD reader. I want to reload Mac OS10.3.2 Panther

Re: Help needed for Mac Powerbook M7572, reload

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Jan 24, 2011, at 4:03 PM, Wm. Arnold wrote: Hi experts, I did a dumb thing, I wiped the hard drive of this computer instead of writing all 0's. This should be the same thing. Now I can't reload an operating system. I have tried several ways including using an external DVD reader.

Re: Help needed for Mac Powerbook M7572, reload

2011-01-24 Thread Kris Tilford
On Jan 24, 2011, at 5:03 PM, Wm. Arnold wrote: I did a dumb thing, I wiped the hard drive of this computer instead of writing all 0's. This doesn't make sense because writing all 0's is wiping the hard drive. You meant you wrote all zeros and wiped the HD. Now I can't reload an operating

Re: Help needed for Mac Powerbook M7572, reload

2011-01-24 Thread Wallace Adrian D'Alessio
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Wm. Arnold w_arn...@att.net wrote: Hi experts, I did a dumb thing, I wiped the hard drive of this computer instead of writing all 0's. Now I can't reload an operating system. I have tried several ways including using an external DVD reader. I want to reload

Re: Help needed for Mac Powerbook M7572, reload

2011-01-24 Thread Miguel Garcia-Gell
Sounds like the DVD install can't Find The hardrive. Hum! That was bad if you are not familiar with Mac issues. Lets think about it On Jan 24, 2011, at 6:19 PM, Wallace Adrian D'Alessio fluxstrin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Wm. Arnold w_arn...@att.net wrote: Hi