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I purchased a new hard drive and haven’t installed it yet because I am worried about loading the OS. I am currently using Snow Leopard I purchased as an upgrade a couple years ago - and I have the disc - but I also have the original Install disks that came with the computer when I purchased - I have a couple questions. Can I just use the Snow Leopard disc to load on the new hard drive; or do I need to start with the original disks I got when I purchased the computer? Secondly, is there a step by step instruction guide I can follow? I don’t have a clue if there is something special I need to do to load the OS on new hard drive. any help is appreciated.
There were 10.6 upgrade disks and full install 10.6 disks. If you have the upgrade disk you will have to start with your original system installation DVD. First The new hard drive has to be formatted and a system installed to use it. Start up from your system installation disk by inserting the disk and holding down the “C” key on start up. Go to the second screen pull down menu to Utilities ‘> Disk Utilities, select the drive on the left and format it GUID. Now give it one partition. Quit Disk Utilities and continue with the system installation. If Disk utilities will not see the new drive you may need to jumper it down to Serial ATA (3 Gb/s).
