my cousin dropped his 15 macbook pro off yesterday, said it had died and went about his business 
. because i'm the pc techy in the family i get all the jobs. after powering up the mac to just a grey screen with the folder and question mark scenario i put his disk one of tiger in the drive and restarted holding "c" key down but to no avail so after reading around a little i rebooted holding the option key down but all that happens then is the cursor appears and nothing else ? i'm suspecting that the drive is d.o.a so what i'm thinking is buy him a new seagate 320 gb sata 7200 to pop in but do i have to format the drive in any way to get the mac booting from the c key press ? also i have read that when you turn a mac on u get a sound a bit like post on pc but there is no sound from this one at the point of turning it on ? any advice for some one who knows very little about macs would be gr8
p.s all i know is there is 2gb ram and a hitachi 160gb hdd in there dont know what cpu is in there ?
. because i'm the pc techy in the family i get all the jobs. after powering up the mac to just a grey screen with the folder and question mark scenario i put his disk one of tiger in the drive and restarted holding "c" key down but to no avail so after reading around a little i rebooted holding the option key down but all that happens then is the cursor appears and nothing else ? i'm suspecting that the drive is d.o.a so what i'm thinking is buy him a new seagate 320 gb sata 7200 to pop in but do i have to format the drive in any way to get the mac booting from the c key press ? also i have read that when you turn a mac on u get a sound a bit like post on pc but there is no sound from this one at the point of turning it on ? any advice for some one who knows very little about macs would be gr8 p.s all i know is there is 2gb ram and a hitachi 160gb hdd in there dont know what cpu is in there ?
