Hi Sam,
Thanks for the reply.
On my way towards this, I realised that I'd tried starting up with AHT, which
failed (I now think it's possible that it was a too-modern version of AHT);
but that I hadn't actually tried booting from an OS X DVD; so I tried that,
which worked and launched the OS X (Leopard, 10.5.6) installer.
However, when I tried to select the internal (new) hard drive as the
destination, it was debarred with the message:
You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume.
Mac OS X cannot start up from this volume.
I think that this has just done in effect the same as your step 3 below so
that there's no point now trying the exercise with cloning the install DVD to
a USB drive (but please tell me if I've misunderstood).
So, er, any idea why Leopard won't install on this volume? I formatted by
using Disk Utility to Restore the original internal HD to it, so I assumed
that it was formatted correctly for the purpose; if I switch from installer to
Disk Utility off the DVD, it reports it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled); with
"Owners Enabled: Yes" (I don't know what that means). I'm currently running
permissions verify on it, which has reported a bunch of stuff, but while that
might stop it booting from the current install, it doesn't seem like it should
stop a new OS being installed.
Is there something physical I should have done to the drive before installing
it - might it need jumpers for master/slave, anything like that?
thanks again,
Ben
On 31/03/2011 17:59, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote:
Hi Ben
If you've got a spare USB hard drive :
1. Connect the USB hard drive to your working MacBook and insert the OS X
Installer DVD
2. Use Disk Utility to Restore the DVD drive to the USB drive
3. Boot the broken MacBook from the USB OS X Installer by holding alt at
startup
4. Reinstall OS X on top of the MacBook's HD
Regards
Sam
MacAmbulance
Providing affordable Apple & PC services
Sam Mullen
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