New HDD, no connection, no reaction, no disk utility...etc.

White Macbook 2009, OS 10.6.3 (Snow Leopard) and later 10.8 (Mountain Lion) installed
The 10.6.3 disk is still available.
The macbook took some hard hitting.
After that, it didn't want to start up anymore.
Disk utility said the hard drive was unrepairable.
Bought a new one.
The old hdd was a Toshiba MK2555GSXF (250 GB) but purchased a Toshiba MQ01ABD100 (1 TB) having seen somewhere it should work with the Macbook.
After installing the new hard drive, the computer refuses to do anything.
It won't launch disk utility. Starting with ALT only results in the cursor arrow towards the light grey screen - nothing else.
The optical disk drive also seems to be ruined (spins the dvd but spits it out after a while) but I've tried my external disk drive (new Apple USB Super Drive) and to start it up with C. Not much happens. The apple logo is up for a while and then it's swapped for the circle with a diagonal line inside. After that - nothing.
The super drive also stops.
I've reinstalled the old hard drive just to check out if something else is out of order - like if I ruined the connection when swapping hard drives - but no. That hdd is to be found and disk utility opens as usual.
So, it's not really so simple to just put a new hard drive in the computer?
I'm not particulary interested in these technical gizmos and I don't understand much, so it's probably something rather easy or obvious.
But I tought I'd be able to swap the hard drive and do the formatting - and start up from the dvd.

Ok, I got my new psu and it seems to work ok. I have only had it a few hours though. But the second time I booted up my computer, it ran checkdisk. Is my hard drive fried? Where do I find the log of what it did? It went by really fast and it looked like no errors, but it might have said something about fixing the file system. This is a fresh install. My new psu is an antec neo HE 550 watt modular with three 12v rails each with 18 amps. I don't do anything on this computer but listen to music and surf the web, but I am pouring a ton of money into it. Anyways, should I RMA my new hard drive already? I want to wait a few days and see if it does it again. Maybe it was left over errors from before I put in the new psu. Any other ideas on what it could be besides my psu messing up the hard drive? I noticed that the voltages were awfully high with the enermax, and it did shut down for overvoltage protection (the mobo did.) ???

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0xffffff81442637d0 : 0xffffff80226dc24e
0xffffff81442639a0 : 0xffffff80226f3746
0xffffff81442639c0 : 0xffffff802267bf83
0xffffff8144263af0 : 0xffffff80226705a1
0xffffff8144263b70 : 0xffffff80226706b0
0xffffff8144263b90 : 0xffffff80226711a0
0xffffff8144263bd0 : 0xffffff8022695c5b
0xffffff8144263c00 : 0xffffff802268f39d
0xffffff8144263c30 : 0xffffff802268e5ec
0xffffff8144263c70 : 0xffffff802267e58c
0xffffff8144263d80 : 0xffffff80226825cf
0xffffff8144263db0 : 0xffffff802263d9e3
0xffffff8144263df0 : 0xffffff80229cec5e
0xffffff8144263e60 : 0xffffff80229e25ed
0xffffff8144263ef0 : 0xffffff80229e2967
0xffffff8144263f30 : 0xffffff8022620b3b
0xffffff8144263f60 : 0xffffff80226dc883
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Serial ATA Device: Samsung SSD 840 EVO 120GB, 120.03 GB
Serial ATA Device: MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-8A8
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: FaceTime HD Camera (Built-in)
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: Hub
USB Device: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
USB Device: BRCM20702 Hub
USB Device: Bluetooth USB Host Controller
USB Device: IR Receiver
Thunderbolt Bus: MacBook Pro, Apple Inc., 25.1
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Carbon Copy Cloner, Disk Utility, etc..

I just read a post here about cloning the hard drive in a mini to an external, using CarbonCopyCloner. I was curious so I went to version tracker and downloaded. While it was downloading I read some of the reviews for it. Some people posting on Versiontracker seemed to have problems with it. Such as losing all their date. Another user suggested that using Disk Utility would be a better option.
My question is, could I create a partition on my external 160gig drive and then use disk utility to clone my mini hard drive to it? Would I then be able to boot off of that partition? If all that's possible then how would I go about doing that with disk utility? And how would I make sure that both the mini and the copy are both updated with the same data?

Hi Jerry,
Yes, you can make an identical copy with Carbon Copy Cloner (hence the name ).
You can use dik utility to partition the external drive, then use CCC top clone the Mini's hard drive to one of the partitions. To test the clone, use system preferences to instruct the mini to boot off of the clone. Of course, this will only work with a Firewire drive.
There are preference settings in CCC that allow you to sync the drives. This way they both have the same data.
It also allows you to schedule periodic backups.
Another backup utility that I have used is SuperDuper. Version 2.0 was just released yesterday. Although it is $29.95, you can download and try it for free.
Hope this helps,
Steve
iMac G5 20 - inch ALS (May 2005) Mac OS X (10.4.3)

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Hp pavilion 15-e061sr - restoring w8 to new hdd from hp set of recovery disks

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Hi:
Please read the guide at the link below.
There is a section on how to recover using the recovery disks.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&dlc=en&docname=c03489643&lc=en&jumpid=reg_r1002_us...

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