New drive and leopard

I got a new hard drive and cloned my old one using superduper.
Now I can't install leopard without partitioning my drive which it says
will wipe out my drive. Any ideas? I did not want to install all that again.

What system was on your old drive that you cloned? Did you make sure that the new drive was partitioned as GUID partition table before you cloned to it? It should also have a format of Mac OS extended Journaled. If it was not set this way at the start you will have to partition it correctly to upgrade.

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figleef wrote:
Because I had an External HD crash,
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Mostly because Windows itself (courtesy of Microsoft) does not support this either.
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