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<blockquote data-quote="wayyytoobored" data-source="post: 1242910" data-attributes="member: 202842">Why is it so difficult to reinstall OSX after replacing a failed HDD?&nbsp;I have a 2 yr old 13.3' macbook with a 2 ghz core 2 and 2GB ddr3. In os-x 10.5 it froze constantly, and would stay frozen for minutes at a time. The hard drive failed last week, and all I was able to recover was an image of the efi partition, which I moved to the new HDD. After 15 failed attempts to reinstall OSX from the restore disks I gave up. There's a scratch on one of them, and the d-bags at the apple store won't help unless you're willing to pay them to fix it. (how difficult is it to burn a copy of a restore disk?) &quot;Because of a problem, installing Mac OS X could not be completed&quot;Windows 7 installed in about an hour, and a bootleg copy of the bootcamp files made everything work flawlessly. (if that's somehow wrong or illegal, I don't care. I didn't pay nearly $1000 to have a machine I can't use)It runs great in windows 7 (see attached screenshot), and scores higher than a lot of new windows based laptops with faster cpus and more memory. Go figure.. But I joined this forum because I want to learn how to fix macs. I can install windows 7 on a PC in less 1/2 hour. So how do I get OSX to install on this thing[ATTACH=full]15151[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wayyytoobored, post: 1242910, member: 202842"] Why is it so difficult to reinstall OSX after replacing a failed HDD? I have a 2 yr old 13.3' macbook with a 2 ghz core 2 and 2GB ddr3. In os-x 10.5 it froze constantly, and would stay frozen for minutes at a time. The hard drive failed last week, and all I was able to recover was an image of the efi partition, which I moved to the new HDD. After 15 failed attempts to reinstall OSX from the restore disks I gave up. There's a scratch on one of them, and the d-bags at the apple store won't help unless you're willing to pay them to fix it. (how difficult is it to burn a copy of a restore disk?) "Because of a problem, installing Mac OS X could not be completed" Windows 7 installed in about an hour, and a bootleg copy of the bootcamp files made everything work flawlessly. (if that's somehow wrong or illegal, I don't care. I didn't pay nearly $1000 to have a machine I can't use) It runs great in windows 7 (see attached screenshot), and scores higher than a lot of new windows based laptops with faster cpus and more memory. Go figure.. But I joined this forum because I want to learn how to fix macs. I can install windows 7 on a PC in less 1/2 hour. So how do I get OSX to install on this thing [ATTACH=full]15151[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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