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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kimblejay" data-source="post: 1328384" data-attributes="member: 224262">Hi guys,Hopefully I'm posting this in the right place - if not forgive me. I've searched and searched on Google and whilst people have posted similar issues, none of the solutions seem to be relevant to me. This suggests that maybe, putting it nicely, my Mac is well and truly scuppered but hopefully someone may have an idea...My hard drive of my MacBook (2006/2007) packed in - just crashed, upon rebooting I got the "question mark of doom" - it had happened to me before, and i replaced the hard drive, no big deal. Two years later and the same thing has happened to me (coincidentally, it fatally crashed both times whilst I was watching YouTube videos.. hmm....)This time around I've bought an unforrmatted hard drive (last time I acquired one that already had OSX installed so it was a case of plug and play). I assumed I would be able to boot from a CD to install OSX and go from there, but now the new hard drive is installed, I'm still getting the question mark. If I try to boot from CD by pressing the C key, nothing happens. Pressing the option key on boot does nothing bar give me a mouse cursor. I wondered if i was pressing the key at the wrong stage during boot up but surely this isn't hard to get right...?The CD drive on my MB has not worked for some time so I'm using an external - it seems to act like the computer is trying to read the disc, then nothing.I've double checked that the hard drive is in place correctly and it seems to be.So basically - I'm at a loss of what to do. None of the boot keys seem to be working. I can't seem to boot from a CD in an external drive, and using the internal is not an option. Is there something else I can try? Am I missing something important? Any help would be greatly appreciated!!</blockquote>

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