Reinstalling mac os x after installing hard drive

I just installed my hard drive piece of cake but when I start the computer from the installation disk and i get to the part where it says select destination...the hard drive doesn't appear. the computer recognizes it because i saw it in system profiler but not the install disk. should i take out the disk and if so how because i tried the eject button and it doesn't come out.

I think you need to run the disk utility and partition the new drive first. You should have that option from the install discs. It has been a while since I had to do this, so my memory may be a little "off"...

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Tom Middlecoat wrote:
...when i got my mac apple released osx leopard and i got a copy, but i cannot reinstall from the disc as its asking for a previous version of mac to be installed on the hard drive, and will not let me install otherwise...
When Apple releases a operating system they issue free upgrade disks with new Mac purchases because the currently boxed new Mac's have the older operating system on it.
Also the new Mac's at that time have a OS X installation disk say for 10.4 inside all sealed up and all, then you get the upgrade disk say 10.5 taped to the outside of the box or handed to you by Apple staff.
You tried installing 10.5 and it's a upgrade disk only, so you need the 10.4 disk that came inside the box with the Mac, as it also has drivers for that particular model. Install 10.4 first, then upgrade to 10.5.
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Open SOFTWARE UPDATE and install 10.6.8.
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http://pondini.org/OSX/Home.html
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