10.5 re install problem

[SimonR.]

Hi everyone,

I have a problem that I turned my MacBook on and it showed the flashing question mark.

Luckily I backed up two days ago so I don't mind doing an erase and install.

So I put the disk in and it's showing no destination.
I looked on the net and saw its quite common but mine is a bit different.

I tried the check disk command and it just came up as a new command indicating that it had finished. I have left it for 8 hours and no luck.

When I check disk utility I get only the DVD drive showing and I'm really stuck here. The cd won't eject either.

Any ideas?

It's a mid 2008 white MacBook (non unibody) 250gb hdd and 2gb ram

Thanks in advance.

 

[Adam.]

IS there an option to mount the drive when you open disk utility?

 

[SimonR.]

There wasn't but taking the hard drive out, giving it a quick puff seemed to sort it. All fixed and re-installed osx now

 

[lordbmz]

Well, Tessa was sure there was a skip button when you loaded the CD

 

[Tom]

Hard Drive is dead by the sounds of it.

 

[SimonR.]

Well, Tessa was sure there was a skip button when you loaded the CD

Shh! Didn't notice that the first time round :$


& Tom, it seems fine now, will hopefully hold up till summer, just need to make regular back ups just in case.