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Apple Computing Products:
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Macbook Pro Will Not Boot From Retail Snow Leopard DVD
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1616396" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>On a hunch, it sounds like you may have a flaky or bad SATA cable. That's the cable which connects the hard drive from its slot down on to the logic board. When you popped in the Snow Leopard DVD and booted holding down the Option key, it should have picked up the new hard drive in addition to the Snow Leopard boot DVD.</p><p></p><p>The hard drive you removed definitely was bad and should have been replaced - which you correctly did. Why don't you go to the ifixit site and take a look at the breakdown and replacement instructions for the MacBook Pro you're working on. Maybe that will key some ideas for you to go on in addition to what I suggested.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.ifixit.com" target="_blank">www.ifixit.com</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1616396, member: 46727"] On a hunch, it sounds like you may have a flaky or bad SATA cable. That's the cable which connects the hard drive from its slot down on to the logic board. When you popped in the Snow Leopard DVD and booted holding down the Option key, it should have picked up the new hard drive in addition to the Snow Leopard boot DVD. The hard drive you removed definitely was bad and should have been replaced - which you correctly did. Why don't you go to the ifixit site and take a look at the breakdown and replacement instructions for the MacBook Pro you're working on. Maybe that will key some ideas for you to go on in addition to what I suggested. [url]www.ifixit.com[/url] [/QUOTE]
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