Installed New HD - Trying to reinstall OS X - Complicated!!!
hi thanks for reading in advance...
i have an old MBP (late 2008) which started to go wonky on me. not sure what was wrong, took it to a Mac repair place, they said maybe it's the HD... it kept freezing up on the grey boot screen, or when it was running the screen was going very weird and freezing. anyway, i needed to upgrade anyway so i bought a new MBP. but i want to fix the old MBP and give it to a friend.
NOTE : the optical drive on the old MBP is broken, so this complicates my issue even further...
I assumed it was the HD on the MBP, so i replaced it today with a new drive from Other World.... it was fairly easy actually. So now i have a computer with no OS and a broken optical drive.
NOTE: i am noticing when i start up the computer, some of the same issues, freezing at the grey apple screen, etc. i'm really hoping it's not the LOGIC board that was bad and the old HD was fine. (how can i test that?)
SO - i want to install OS X on this blank machine. i have a flash drive with Lion on it. i used it to install Lion on my wifes MBP and it worked. (upgraded from snow leopard)
when i tried to boot from the flash drive on the blank machine, it brought up the installer, and let me get almost to installation before the message: the volume you are installing from is not a GUID volume (i'm paraphrasing here). it told me to use disk utility to repartition the memory stick, which would erase it, so i didn't do it.
NEXT i tried using firewire mode and my NEW MBP with a snow leopard disk i have... i was able to boot up to the OS X install disk, but it didn't see the blank HD, it only saw my new computer's drive and wanted to install to that so no dice...
i did NOT try firewire mode using the Lion flash drive, however, which i will try.
any clue of how i can get ANY version of OS X installed on this new blank hard drive using the resources i have? (two unibody MBPs, a Lion flash drive, snow leopard DVD, leopard, etc)
now i'm also wondering if it wasn't even the HD on this old MBP to begin with that was bad. i'm so close to solving this thing all by myself, but i've hit a wall!
any suggestions would be appreciated...
thanks
keith
If that lion install USB stick has Disk Utility on it you need to partition and format that new drive before you can install the OS on it.
OS X does not allow you to do that at the beginning of the install, like some other (Windows) OS does.
If that install stick doesn't have Disk Utility on it then you will need to make a Lion Recovery HD USB stick. you can do that on your new MBP with files downloaded from the Apple website.
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