[bigdaddysheikh]

I have recently installed leopard onto my MBP. To install leopard I had to do numerous tasks in order for my hard drive to be detected. I had to mount the image on using my MB. The cd could not be read by my MBP. Although it had installed leopard onto my MBP I was unable to format my HD, it did not give me an option to erase. It was disabled it seemed.

I am keen on getting my hard drive formatted as it is running extremely slow and want to do a fresh start. Have any of you run into this problem or know how I can about resolving this. I was thinking about buying a new HD for the laptop but I do not know how to install it on the MBP. Also I called the apple store and in order for me to get an estimate, I have to make an appointment with an apple genious, I find that quite frustrating.

Any feedback would help. I honestly do not know what is wrong with my hard drive. I bought this MBP used and have had this for about 8 months now. I just want to format my laptop but am unable to.

My MBP specs

1.83 CD, 15", 2 gigs of ram.

[bballe336]

Boot from the leopard DVD and use disk utility on the DVD (it's under tools IIRC) to reformat the hard drive, then you can go ahead with your reinstall.

[bigdaddysheikh]

I have tried using disk utility, it was unable to read my HD. I had found this manual code online, that I put into terminal in order for my HD to be displayed in disk utility.

[ibook_steve]

If Disk Utility doesn't see the drive, something is seriously wrong, hopefully with just a cable. You can open your machine and check or change the drive using the guides at iFixit: iPod, iBook, & PowerBook Parts and Accessories.

Steve