Reinstall onto new drive.

My iMac hard drive failed and a new one was installed by Apple. The HD has nothing on it and I want to use reinstall discs. Other than plugging in and inserting disc, are there any special instructions?
Note: I do not want the info from time machine used as I want to sell this machine. I need software in place to sell.
Thanks.

Did he hold down the C key while booting up (so it'll boot from the install CD) - I failed to mention that in my last post thinking you were most likely aware of that. And, did he then check to see if the hard drive was formatted properly? If you didn't, that might explain it (since there is nothing on the hard drive, it can't find the system). It shouldn't be spinning for that long - you can also take a look at this article:
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2570
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2674
So, if you didn't boot from the install CD, I'd say, do a hard shut down and hopefully it'll eject the install CD. If not, try it again while holding down the Option key after pressing the power button - that should bring up the Startup Manager and you should be able to choose the install CD.

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Jottle wrote:
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Hi Kenichi,
I will certainly follow these instructions when Im back home from work.
Kenichi Watanabe wrote:
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The external drive IS what I want to restore, but it bears only the sparse image, that needs to be clicked to expand to the real disk image. I could build the disk image on the desktop and then copy it back to the external drive? Is that okay? Should I erase the sparse image AFTER THAT just for the reason not to have two identical images?
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