New HDD not working. Please advise.
Hello.
Today i purchased a new internal hdd for my 5.53 ghz macbook pro. I purchased the seagate momentus 500 gb 7200 rpm drive as suggested by users. The installation was fine, however i am having several issues with the drive. I boot into the 10.6 install cd and try to install. It says the drive is not journaled. So i try to reformatt using the mac os journaled format, and it locks up and often doesn't complete. i verified the disk, and everything checked out, however i just don't know what im doing wrong as i've never had this problem before. Should i install with the disk that came with the mbp first? Please adise. Thank you!
You might want to look at Kappy's Extended Hard Drive Preparation:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1885474&tstart=60
I suspect there is a problem with how you are trying to format the drive. Follow Kappy's instructions and post back if you still have problems.
Good luck!
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