White Screen- New Hard Drive Same issue

I had a white screen. The MacBook Pro would do nothing. The only way I could get it to work was by pressing option when powering on but even then I tried everything reinstalling Lion. When I tried to reinstall lion it would pop up with an error message. It would not even let me choose a location. I ordered a new harddrive and I am still having the same issue. White Screen when I turn the computer on unless I press the option and power button and Still an error message when I try to reinstall lion. ANY HELP WOULD BE AWESOME!!! THANK YOU!!

If you want to preserve the data on the boot drive, you must try to back up now, before you do anything else. It may or may not be possible. If you don't care about the data, you can skip this step.
There are several ways to back up a Mac that is unable to fully boot. You need an external hard drive to hold the backup data.
1. Boot from the Recovery partition or from a local Time Machine backup volume (option key at startup.) Launch Disk Utility and follow the instructions in this support article, under “Instructions for backing up to an external hard disk via Disk Utility.”
2. If you have access to a working Mac, and both it and the non-working Mac have FireWire or Thunderbolt ports, boot the non-working Mac in target disk mode. Use the working Mac to copy the data to another drive. This technique won't work with USB, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, or Bluetooth.
3. If the internal drive of the non-working Mac is user-replaceable, remove it and mount it in an external enclosure or drive dock. Use another Mac to copy the data.

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Can anyone help me, I just replaced my hard drive on my 15" G4 Aluminum Power Book as it had crashed and died on me. When I finished installing the new hard drive, when switching it on the screen remains blank. Does anyone have any Ideas why and how to get it working again. The screen was working before the hard drive crash. Any help will be much appreciated.
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6. I visit the apple store dragging a small suitcase behind me which holds the powerbook, the macbook pro, and the time capsule. My appointment began at 10:00am. At 8:00pm I left the Apple Store (the geniuses were glad to see me go, 5 of them were required to help me). Upon leaving, all files from the time capsule had been transferred to the macbook pro (at one point the genius said to me "there's a 50/50 chance this will work, if it doesn't you will lose everything" I almost cried) and the powerbook was given the definite diagnosis of a severely corrupt hard drive with the recommendation to replace it. (Sidenote: A different genius tested the airport on the powerbook and said its perfect and does not need to be replaced.)
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Software is up to date as it can be.
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