SMART info will not be reported on external drives. If it does not say 'Verified' then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing.

Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. If you are preparing an external or a non-startup drive, then open Disk Utility in your Utilities folder.Ģ. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button.

I have tried a number of HDDs so I doubt this is a HDD problem.Īny ideas on what I should do? I would like to run Snow Leopard (as it's the latest I can on the 1,1 MBP model) as a backup Mac in my home.ġ. I have a feeling this could be because it's a gray white MacBook disk and indeed too new as such for this machine, but am not sure. So I boot up from the Leopard DVD and get the same message 'Mac OS X cannot be installed on this computer'. Getting the message 'Mac OS X cannot be installed on this computer' and another line stating 'Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard must be installed first' < not exact phrasing.

With the new HDD fitted in the MBP, I boot from the Snow Leopard DVD to try install it to the MBP. 1) The gray one from a Mid 2009 white MacBook with 10.5 Leopard, 2) An Apple Store Snow Leopard DVD.

When I picked this MacBook Pro up last night, it had a tiny 80GB HDD with Snow Leopard installed - that is now formatted and a Windows 7 HDD in the HP laptop. Hi, another question regarding the 2006 MacBook Pro (1,1 Core Duo) I recently bought second hand.įitted a Western Digital 250GB HDD from another HP laptop laying around, formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) and a fully functioning hard drive as I know from it's former role in the Windows laptop.

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