Reinstalling mac leopard

B

baxter999

Registered
Hi sorry i know youve probably been asked this before but i have just bought a used macbook and want to reinstall leopard to make it my own etc.
But whenever i put the install disc in then press restart, when it reloads it says that it cannot install leopard. How should i reinstall leopard?
Sorry new to mac just switched from windows.
Thanks
Simon
 
Give the specs on your Mac book and describe the disk. Is it grey? Is it black? The reason is there are different discs for different computers--"grey." Guy may have not given you the correct disk. There are retail disks which should load on anything.

Is it a "clean" HD? As in erased?

--J.D.
 
its a grey macbook and no its got the latest version of mac on it. The guy didnt give me install discs im using the discs off my girlfriends grey macbook. I just want to erase all of the information off it then install leopard again and start again.
Thanks
 
That is why the install does not work - the install discs that are shipped with a Mac are always model specific. So if your girlfriend's Mac was e.g. MacBook (early 2008) then the only Macs that those install discs can be used with are other MacBook (early 2008) models. MacBook (late 2008) or MacBook Pro or iBook or eMac or any other Mac out there will not work. Your Mac is not the same type and generation of Mac than hers, so it will not work.

What you will need to do is contact the seller, and demand the discs. Without those discs you can't install the OS, and you can't even do maintenance from those discs to the system. It's as if you'd bought a car with no keys.

A second thing --- a grey MacBook? Do you mean a MacBook Pro? What does system profiler say about your model? There is no such thing as a gray MacBook...
 
Ah. Then that is the problem.

You should make the guy who sold it to you force you to give you the installation disks. I find a cattle-prod most persuasive. Without them, should you ever have a problem with the Mac . . . you are basically up a creek without a colostomy bag.

Right . . . go to the "Apple" icon up there, clicketh on it, and bring up "About This Mac" and post the full details of Model, Processor, RAM, HD, and OS version.

Then . . . do the same for your girlfriend's Mac. I suspect one of two things:

1. You do not have the same Macbook, which means it will not boot yours.
2. You do and it boots, but it has a higher updated System so the disk is confused.

In that case you have to click on the--sorry I do not know how to take a picture of it--"Options" that will also you to Clean Install, Archive and Install, and Erase and Install.

--J.D.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top