Macbook 13" late 2008, os instalation problem

Hi ,
I had installed a new harddisk for my macbook from the service centre and said that i would install the OS myself, but to my luck the OS disk does not install and i had not taken any back up before i changes the harddisk . can someone adivce me on wat to do Pls ?

Deepak K R wrote:
the OS disk does not install
Welcome to Apple's discussion groups.
What do you see when you try to do the installation? Have you used Disk Utility (under the "Utilities" menu early in the installation process) to partition and format the new drive? For your Mac the partition type should be "GUID Partition Table" and the format should be "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)".

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