Do you have access to a second Mac to crease a bootable USB thumb drive? It sounds like the OS is not the correct one or is damaged, as normally the system would automatically jump into recovery when a raw fresh disk is installed. This system may have had the older OS-X or early macOS which need a bootable drive to then setup the new drive as the systems firmware was not upgraded with the newer and better ability to do the internet install/upgrade.
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Do you have access to a second Mac to create a bootable USB thumb drive?
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It sounds like the OS is not the correct one or is damaged, as normally the system would automatically jump into recovery when a raw fresh disk is installed. This system may have had the older OS-X or early macOS which need a bootable drive to then setup the new drive as the systems firmware was not upgraded with the newer and better ability to do the internet install/upgrade.
Do you have access to a second Mac to crease a bootable USB thumb drive? It sounds like the OS is not the correct one or is damaged, as normally the system would automatically jump into recovery when a raw fresh disk is installed. This system may have had the older OS-X or early macOS which need a bootable drive to then setup the new drive as the systems firmware was not upgraded with the newer and better ability to do the internet install/upgrade.