New HD, problem with Leopard install DVD, How to reinstall OS?
Hi, My hard drive crashed. I’m travelling and am in a small village in rural India. No Mac shops around. I’ve managed to get a new HD (WD 80GB), now I’m having trouble with the installation of the OS. Although I have my data backed up onto an external HD, I don’t have the OS itself backed up. I have my Mac OSX Leopard installation disk with me. I thought this would cover me for exactly this sort of problem. But it doesn’t seem to. I’ve got the new HD in and it seems to be working. It’s been formatted and it shows up ok when I boot up with the Leopard disk. I get past the question about language and accepting the licence terms. Then it goes into checking source disk mode. When it gets to about half way I get a message saying it can’t continue, Disk is dirty and it needs to be cleaned. Well, I’ve taken it out and it looks ok. I don’t see any deep scratches. Still, this has now happened twice. I tried to copy the disk on another PC but it returned a message saying ‘corrupt files’. So it s
