Install Disc won't see main hard drive

I'm trying to upgrade from 10.4.11 to 10.5. When I'm booted up from the install disc, my main hard drive doesn't show up as an option to install onto. My secondary internal hard drive shows up, as well as my firewire drive. What's the deal? Thanks-Karen

Try going into Disk Utility and see if you disk pops up. If not restart your mac and hold the "c" key. If that does not work go to the Apple Store.

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My 10.5.6 drive is dying so I replaced it with a brand new drive. I bought my computer just after the 10.5.0 upgrade, so it came with two 10.4 disks and a 10.5 upgrade disk.
When I insert 10.4 disk 1 and boot, I get to the point where I am asked to select a drive. Nothing is showing. My hard drive is not recognized.
There is only one setup path. There is no way to use Utility or any other program. There are no tabs, options or anything else but this setup path. OsX 10.4 Disk 2 is not recognized. The OSX 10.5 disk is not recognized.
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1. Insert the Mac OS X Install disc that came with your computer, then restart the computer while holding the C key.
2. When your computer finishes starting up from the disc, choose Disk Utility from the Installer menu. (In Mac OS X 10.4 or later, you must select your language first.)
*Important: Do not click Continue in the first screen of the Installer. If you do, you must restart from the disc again to access Disk Utility.*
3. Click the Erase tab.
4. Click the disclosure triangle to the left of the hard drive icon to display the names of your hard disk volumes and partitions.
5. Select your Mac OS X volume.
6. Highlight the drive, select Partition Tab, then Format type... MacOS Extended Journalled... after completion hopefully you'll be able to install.

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I rebooted with my original install disk of OS X and when it gets to the "choose location" window, it does not see the new hard drive......????
I'm thinking about re-checking connections and/or possibly pull the hard drive out and do an external connection just to verify that it spins.
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However it would appear that your short name is 'dalechristiansen' so presumably you originally created a user with that short name and your full name as.. the full name (unless it was just 'Dale'. Whatever you did before when you created your account is what you should do now. Then you can copy the equivalent folder's contents. (You might have problems replacing some of the root level folders, in which case you shuld copy their contents into the equivalent folders).

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When a hard drive fails to appear in Disk Utility that usually means the drive has failed. I really don't understand the purpose of the rest of your post. I don't even know what the question is, but I'm guessing you want to know if the drive should be replaced. The answer would be, "Yes."

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USB and FireWire Quick Assist
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1151?viewlocale=en_US
What to do if your computer won't recognize a FireWire device
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=88338
Dealing with FireWire problems (drives not mounting, devices unrecognized, etc.)
http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20041221081432908
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What partition type did you use? It needs to be "Apple partition" for the PPC computers and GUID for Intels. I should probably have mentioned that before...sorry. But at least you are getting closer since the drive is recognized. What you need to do is delete the partition and make a new one being sure to use "Apple Partition" and format it as an OSX Extended (Journaled) partition. Then the installer should run.

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Caleb,
what have you done to troubleshoot this?
Try closing FCP (Do you have FCP 6.0.2 and you are connecting through USB?) and/or reboot. I unserstand some of this consumer cameras are quite sensitive to the order of steps and connections to follow prior transfer.
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I just installed a new hard drive on the macbook pro. however, when i run the installation disk it never actually installes os x instead it trys to install the applications, but cant find the drive. How do I install OS X on a new hard drive? Thanks.

Hello,
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From the OS X installation screen, go up to the menus at the top, and locate Disk Utility.
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Choose the format "Mac OS X Extended (Journaled).
Now, click on the button to partition the drive.
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From a technical standpoint, your HP laptop doesn't use EFI, but rather an early predecessor called a BIOS. Apple is the only vendor of consumer computer hardware that uses EFI; other vendors reserve EFI for use in servers.
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BrightBluephotograph wrote:
I cannot install lightroom 5 until the upgrades from 4 are on the pc,
You don't need to have Lightroom 3 and 4 installed on your computer to install Lightroom 5. Just install Lightroom 5 and input your serial number for 3 in the previous version box and your serial number for 5 in the upgrade box.

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