No.
Fucking.
WAY.

Only a few days after getting me laptop back from the clutch of the Nazis, the hard drive decides to fail. The irony here is that my Xbox 360 still has yet to face any hardware failures whatsoever. No red ring yet, although considering how shitty of a year I've had, it'll probably happen at 11:59PM tomorrow.

So anyway, my hard drive on my MacBook is dead. I fear it had something to do with me taking it to a debate tournament all the way down in Mansfield yesterday, but I had to. Within the tournament, we spent about 7 hrs playing SNES, N64, and MAME games on it, including TMNTIV, Super Smash Bros., and Spy Huner. [size=20]Spy fucking Hunter![/size All was well until I got home, booted up the MacBook, and got onto my desktop, where I first see NocturnalXVII's amazing wallpaper, and the files on my desktop. Per the usual booting, I also see the toolbar icons appear, only to stop with nothing more than the blue search icon showing. After this, the 'Please wait" color wheel appears, and I start to freak out.

I couldn't even boot into the Guest account, so after searching the internet for tips on what to do, I went into a William H. Macy style freak out, and just erased my entire boot disk.

After booting into the computer via install disk, I tried to verify and repair the disk, erase its contents once more, and then reinstall. However, it keeps telling me that there's a hard drive failure and that I cannot install there.



I'm thinking that something's wrong with the disk, so I pop in my WWDC Leopard Beta install disk, and that won't even start installing. So here I am, stuck with that fucking grey screen and nothing to do with it. That flashing folder is just taunting me now.

I know that by ending this with this statement, that it belongs in the forums, but think of it as a sidetrack to a RROD story that has nothing to do with RRODs. HALP PLZ.

Does anyone know if/how I can install OS X directly on an external HDD?
Basically, can I install OS X from the install DVD, but instead of using the internal drive as the install drive, can I use the external storage drive I have?
Can I somehow fix this problem without resorting to taking this into Apple? I'm not paying another 450 bucks to replace something that happens a million fucking times again.


Sidenote: I saw it coming. Of course Apple products fail. All the fucking time. I've bitched about Apple to no end, guys. Bring on the barrage of "LOL, I THOUGHT MACS 'just worked', LAWL!".