Got a new HDD 320gb 7200rm Western digital for my macbook

so I take out the old one, then I plug the cable into the new HDD place it in close my macbook and turn the computer on to find a blinking question mark logo, try putting my external HDD in, doesn't work, put in my osx disk that came with my macbook, doesn't do anything, whats wrong, what did I do wrong?

slpslee wrote:
I'm going strictly from memory on this one, since it's been a while since I did it. I apologize in advance if I leave out a step or two. The first thing I did, before removing the internal HD, was to plug in an external HD and save a copy of the internal HD. I used Carbon Copy Cloner, but there are several packages that work just as well. Then I set the external as my boot drive to make sure that I had a bootable copy. After that, I removed the internal HD and replaced it with the larger one. Then I booted back into the external and formatted the new internal HD. After that, it was a simple matter of cloning the OS back onto the new internal, setting it as the boot drive, and rebooting. So far as I can tell, your new HD isn't Mac formatted yet, so I don't think you'd be able to copy an OS onto it, even from the install CD, just IMHO.
Your steps will work, but you have an extra clone in there. When I replaced my drive, I put the new drive in an enclosure, then used SuperDuper! to clone the internal to the new drive. Then I simply swapped drives and that's it.

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