Macbook Pro OSX Disks

tsinc80697

tsinc80697

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Strange request, I would have put it in the wanted section but I thought it would get more of a response here as its an emergency really!

left my OSX disks at uni, will cost me £20 to get there and back.

Just backed up windows Xp, needed to resize the partition.
Merged the 2 partitions into 1, worked fine.
Went to separate the drive into 2 partitions and it says it cant, and to repair i need the OSX disks.


I think they are specific to each type of machine so i need macbook Pro OSX disks which would work on a 2.33ghz, 2gb ram, 120gb hard drive 256mb graphics.

if someone could make a copy of the disks and send me them in the post id give them a couple of quid as I need windows for a 3D Studio Max uni project!

add me to MSN if you think you can help : tom [@] tomsinclair.co.uk

Thanks!
 
If i find an apple dealer thats near me and open tomorrow , if i took laptop in with me would they let me use a disk for 5minutes ?
Don't have receipt either as its at uni in the box :mad:
 
They may do. I noticed the Apple Store in Bluewater is showing as open on their site so they may all be open. :)
 
tsinc80697 said:
...I think they are specific to each type of machine...
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They arnt specific to each machine, unless things have changed lately.
It wouldnt be viable for Apple to do different OSX disks for each model that they sell.
:).
 
To be honest I'd just download an image of OS X from a torrent site and install off there.

Not like you don't own the hardware :cool:
 
fsck?

I ran disk utility and that just said there is a problem that can only be fixed by putting the OS disc in during bootup and press C then use disk utility there when the disc is nto active so it can be repaired
 
its a universal binary, there's no 'intel version', unless you meant the hacked x86 version

i found a torrent in a couple mins, but dont think i can post it here

search for 'os x tiger' on isohunt and there's a dmg down the list with a bunch of seeds
 
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incidentally, although youve sorted it out I can send a copy of the MBP DVDs if still required.

Incidentally the install discs are machine-specific for intel-macs (speaking from experience seeing as I managed to 0wn a MBP using a generic NBI install)
 
chex said:
its a universal binary, there's no 'intel version', unless you meant the hacked x86 version

i found a torrent in a couple mins, but dont think i can post it here

search for 'os x tiger' on isohunt and there's a dmg down the list with a bunch of seeds
Click to expand...

incorrect, there are different versions of os x for intel and ppc systems. The off the shelf boxed version won't work on an intel.
 
http://applejack.sourceforge.net/

Can't get into the GUI? For all your troubleshooting needs... install now, thank me later! It allows you to boot into single user mode and have lots of repair options. Even without any other disks.

"Using AppleJack, you can repair your disk, repair permissions, validate the system's preference files, and get rid of possibly corrupted cache files. In most cases, these operations can help get your machine back on track. The important thing is that you don't need another startup disk with you. All you need to do is restart in Single User Mode (SUM), by holding down the command and s keys at startup, and then typing applejack, or applejack auto (which will run through all the tasks automatically), or applejack auto restart (which will also restart the computer automatically at the end of the process)."
 
thanks a lot :)

managed to get the disk working fine, installing windows is a nightmare !

norton ghost installed the image but then wouldnt let me boot into that part of the drive, then I did it again and it said DLL error, so im just doing a fresh install of windows then ill put my ghost image over it once I am into windows.
Even that is taking yonks as for some reason MBP was reading the XP CD extremely slowly, stayed on 39minutes remaining for an hour so im starting again :/

Will try that mac software when im back into the sweet home of OSX and away from this nasty windows rubbish
 
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