Just put in a fresh 2T Seagate HD into my mid-2007 iMac. now what?

the title says it. i went the DIY route and replace my crashed, original 320 GB disk with a Seagate Barracuda 2T hard drive. but i haven't found much on how to go about the inital start up and OS X instal. i think i have an idea, and that is that it's pretty straight forward, but i'd like to make sure before i proceed. thanks for any help!

Bring up Disk Utility (boot holding command and r keys down in recovery mode) and click partition, give the disk a name, how many partitions (most use 1, but you can have more), click options and ensure it's GUID format for Intel systems, click OK and partition. It's now ready for data.
If you're installing the operating system from scratch, you can do that through ML recovery. If you're restoring from a backup, boot to it (boot holding alt/option key and choose the backup to boot from).

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AlaskanElizabeth wrote:
Happily- perhaps the most legit tech site on the Internet- cnet:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57506159-83/apples-ios-and-android-are-new-favo rite-malware-victims/
They broke a story on sept 4, 2012 titled "apple's iOS, the new favorite malware victims"
Despite the dramatic title of the article, the only mention of iOS in the body was this:
Even though malware is increasing in iOS, it still remains relatively low compared with other operating systems.
And, it provides no examples or other documentation. And, unlike you, I don't consider CNET "the most legit tech site on the internet". I find them to be generally biased in their reiviews and heavily influenced by advertisers.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2012/06/26/yes-apples-machines-really-ca n-get-viruses
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/iphone-malware-kaspersky_n_1515074.html
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I don't think that's quite the issue though. I bought an album and it appears in 'my purchases' within the itunes app. Yet, in order to listen to the music, i must use the 'music' app and in this application, there are only three tracks displayed at any one time from my downloaded album.
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atoo2 wrote:
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