Changing my Hard drive, but lost original Mac OS X install disk...

If you bought the retail Snow Leopard DVD you can use it to install Snow Leopard on your replacement HD.

G-Houet wrote:

I'm basically equiped to proceed in changing out my HD and retreive all my data from Time Capsule ?

Oh, slightly different question... 🙂

If you were to ask if you can retrieve all your data from a disk connected directly to your Mac (USB or FireWire, for instance) the answer would be yes.

However, I am uncertain about the exact procedure for restoring from a Time Capsule. You can try this yourself before changing your hard disk though.

Start from your Snow Leopard DVD, and when the Mac OS X Utilities screen appears, choose "Restore from Time Machine backup". See if it finds your Time Capsule, and presents you with a list of backups from which to choose.

If so, cancel that restoration and exit, since you confirmed this will work. You can then proceed with your hard disk replacement with the confidence that you will be able to restore your previous system. In this case there is no need to install a new copy of OS X. Simply restore from your Time Machine backup instead.