Solved Reinstall Os X Without Disk On Mac After Installing New Hard Drive Mac Mini Model A1176

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Hd installed need to load OSX

Start up from your original system installation disk, ( C key). Go to the second screen pull down menu to Utilities > Disk Utilities and format the hard drive. You should now be able to continue with your system installation. If you cannot format the drive you may need to jumper it down to 1.5 GHz for it to be seen.