Second hand Macbook need to restore?

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Hi guys

My boss brought a second hand Macbook and has asked me to wipe and rebuild it?

Never really touched one but I'm more than happy to have a look at it as I hear lots of good things about them.

Is there a restore to factory setting as such or do I need to contact Apple to get some cd's etc?

Any help/advice would be great ;)
 
tweakinfreak said:
Hi guys

My boss brought a second hand Macbook and has asked me to wipe and rebuild it?

Never really touched one but I'm more than happy to have a look at it as I hear lots of good things about them.

Is there a restore to factory setting as such or do I need to contact Apple to get some cd's etc?

Any help/advice would be great ;)
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Just do a fresh install on it.

Going from what you said, I guess you don't have the CD's that came with it? You can get some of Apple very cheaply iirc if that is the case. Ring them and tell them you've lost the CD's.
 
Yeah he didn't think to ask for any form of CD's :rolleyes:

He has left me to worry about that!

Whats the best number to call?

Sorry I'm totally lost when it comes to Mac's
 
Just ring their sales line, I'm sure they'll be more than happy to oblige as you'll be giving them money :)

0800 039 1010
 
Not cheaply :mad:
They want £40 for a simple set of CDs.

Absolutely criminal price, I told them to shove it.
Real pain as well, as with the Intel Macs, they need to be from the same model as yours (Can't just use a standard Tiger retail disk :( )

-Leezer-
 
leezer3 said:
Not cheaply :mad:
They want £40 for a simple set of CDs.

Absolutely criminal price, I told them to shove it.
Real pain as well, as with the Intel Macs, they need to be from the same model as yours (Can't just use a standard Tiger retail disk :( )

-Leezer-
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They are the same CDs, they just have a little checksum that prevents them being installed on anything OTHER than what it deems correct.

I can't go in to details, but you can install from a retail disk by disabling the checksum first :)
 
Not Tiger ;)
Been there, done that pain. Standard retail disks are PPC only & won't do for the Intel machines. Leopard has dual Intel/ PPC disks, but thats not the point really.

An Intel Mac restore disk may work with this process, but haven't tried it, & was under the impression that they were machine customised.

-Leezer-
 
If you are going to install Leopard you might want to pickup iLife too.. or at least backup the old version before you blow it away.
 
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