Inspiron 1721 won't recognize hard drive

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  Vaibhav

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  Disk utility to partition and format the drive.

  Boot from the installation disc:

  Booting from an OS X install disc

  1. Insert the OS X installation disc into the optical drive.

  2 restart the computer.

  3. immediately after the ring, press and hold the C"" key.

  4 release the button when the spinning gear under the Apple grey dark

  logo appears.

  5. wait for the installer to finish loading.

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