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<blockquote data-quote="Exodist" data-source="post: 1617806" data-attributes="member: 284358">Ok let me scratch my head here..2008/9 as per Apple should still be able to boot into a recovery mode by pressing the OPTION key at start up right after the chime. Hold the OPTION key until you are given a screen to choose what disc to boot to.Ok once you are there, format the newly installed HDD. You will see the options to go into DISC UTILITY mode, do that and you will get your familar application and find your drive, format it for Mac OS Extended.Once that is complete, then try to install and boot from your install disc. If you have been installing from the recovery CD/DVD media and instead of starting up, this is because the drive was not formatted correctly. Unlike Windows installer, the Mac installer will not format the drive for a true clean install or repair the boot sector. So you need format the drive in Disc Utility as Mac OS Extended to fix this.Hope this helps..Joe</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Exodist, post: 1617806, member: 284358"] Ok let me scratch my head here.. 2008/9 as per Apple should still be able to boot into a recovery mode by pressing the OPTION key at start up right after the chime. Hold the OPTION key until you are given a screen to choose what disc to boot to. Ok once you are there, format the newly installed HDD. You will see the options to go into DISC UTILITY mode, do that and you will get your familar application and find your drive, format it for Mac OS Extended. Once that is complete, then try to install and boot from your install disc. If you have been installing from the recovery CD/DVD media and instead of starting up, this is because the drive was not formatted correctly. Unlike Windows installer, the Mac installer will not format the drive for a true clean install or repair the boot sector. So you need format the drive in Disc Utility as Mac OS Extended to fix this. Hope this helps.. Joe [/QUOTE]

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