AOL log-in not recognising new hard drive

I recently had to replace my hard drive and have installed iTunes 7. I lost my library, but still have my music on my iPod and am in the process of moving everything over. The big problem I am having is with my AOL account log-in, it does not recognise my new hard drive and I am then unable to log-in and access the iTunes store or my previously purchsed music. How can I get my account to recognise this new hard drive?

Hi,
mots likely the new harddisk came preformated for use with Windows or even completely unformated.
In that case you cannot install OSX on it before 'preparing' the harddisk with Disk Utility.
After booting from the OSX install DVD Disk Utility can be found in the 'Utilities' in the Top Menu.
Run Disk Utility
In the left pane of it click on the internal harddisk (not any partitions on that harddisk)
In the right pane click on the Partition-Tab
Set it to one partition
Use 'MacOS Extended (Journaled)' as file system
click on the Options-button and set GPT (GUID Partition Table) as Partition scheme
Start the partitioning.
After that is done quit Disk Utility and you should be able to install OSX on the new harddisk.
Regards
Stefan

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