I have formatted the replacement hard drive correctly (GUID) for Mac OSX. The 2 original install disks for Tiger that came with the MacBook Pro A 500gb iOmega Hard drive with Firewire 800 cables A replacement hard drive for the MacBook (Seagate Momentus) An iMac 2.7 Ghz i5 (8gb Ram) running Mac OSX 10.7.5 The equipment I now have to try and get my MacBook to work: The MacBook appeared to work fine from this external hard drive, but when disk utility was run on the internal hard drive, the disk utility eventually froze.īased on this info, the guy there deduced (fairly reasonably I suppose) that the problem must be my hard drive, and replacing my hard drive should solve this. I took it to my local apple store where they booted an OSX (not sure which) from an external drive (I think it was using a firewire cable). On startup a grey screen falls down with a box saying that I need to restart the computer. It has what I believe is called a kernel panic.

I have a 2007 15' MacBook Pro (MacBook Pro 15/2.2/2GB/120GB) which a few weeks ago suddenly died on me. I've been trying to sort this for a few weeks now, and I'm hoping someone may be able to shed some light on the situation.

Booting a mac pro 2007 to a thumb drive