Restoring from DVD to new Drive.

Hey, I new my hard drive on my laptop was bailing so i backed up everything to DVD from my iTunes. Now it wont restore to the new drive. What do do.?

You can't make the Mac OS X installer boot and run from a hard drive for the operating system. It is not designed to work that way. If you wish to backup a system and not have to reinstall from CD, use a clone method of your existing working installation to hard drive*:
http://www.macmaps.com/backup.html
While a method has been made to make a duplicate Mac OS X installer disc, it isn't always able to work*:
http://www.macmaps.com/bootcd.html
Not to mention any copy you make is for your own personal use only, unless the license you got says otherwise. Read licenses carefully.
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.
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We bought a new Unibody MBP on Monday, and loaned it to our CTO for a presentation. Having got it back from him now I wanted to nuke the installation and put a fresh copy of leopard on it, so I dropped the DVD in the drive, powered down, and booted holding the "C" key.
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Raj wrote:
That is not the reason it didn't work. Here is the actual clarity:
*A retail Leopard DVD should be able to boot a new Macbook Pro unibody.*
So you are saying even if the driver for the controller on which the DVD drive sits is not available in the Leopard DVD you are using because the hardware was not manufactured at the time the Leopard release on the DVD was made, the OS should magically just boot? How is that possible? Unibody MacBook Pros have entirely NEW AHCI chipset - for which there won't be any drivers on the older Leopard DVD and as such the DVD wont be detected once the OS on the DVD loads. In cases where the chipset used is same (as in previous generations of MBP) it will boot.
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The OP said that his computer boots from the DVD that came with the computer - just not with the old retail Leopard DVD. Also - what should happen if the new hardware happens to be the controller on which the DVD drive is sitting? How will it be able to read the DVD? What about the graphics card? If the drivers on the old leopard disk do not recognize the new graphics card - how is the OS going to display on screen?
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Again - you fail to understand that whether or not the old DVD boots on a new machine all depends on how much hardware has changed and what hardware has changed. It may boot on some generation of machine because the basic chipset and graphics did not change or were handled generically by the drivers on the older DVD but it may totally refuse to boot on new gen machine which has totally different / incompatible hardware.
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I am sorry, i am confused about what exactly you are trying to say here.
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http://mac-support.blogspot.com

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