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installed new SATA barracuda drive 500g original crashed. When using install disc 1 Mac OS x 1 I get to the “select destination there is no Hard drive Icon to click on and the continue botton is grayed out. upon opening the disc utility I DO HAVE THE mAC os X INSTALL DISC in the left hand box First aid tab than I click Verify disk permission..iget an error message “NO VALID PACKAGES9-9997) cLICKING erase GETS EVERYTHING GREYED OUT……wHAT DO i DO NEXT TO CONTINUE LOADING NEXT DISCS…..hELP
You need to use Disk Utilities and format the drive before you can install a system on it. Give it one partition, use Apple Partition Map. Then exit Disk Utilities and continue with the System Installation.
