Reformat my MacBook, but lost CD's

[tarsus.6]

Hello fellow nerds. ;)

I lost my silly Disk DVD. I have the ones for my iMac, however they don't work. I get the message (you cannot install os x on this computer).

What I want.... this computer is about 2 years old. I want to reformat it to square one. Like brand new. I already backed everything up.

When I called apple, I mentioned I just purchased Snow Leapord.. they said.. no biggy, just install that and it will replace everything back to square one. Well, that didn't work. I still have all my old programs.

What should I do? Thanks!!:)

[Hellhammer]

http://guides.macrumors.com/Clean_Install_of_OS_X_10.6_Snow_Leopard

It's a bit more tricky with 10.6

[tarsus.6]

step two says, "Boot from the install disc by holding alt key)

However I don't have the install disc.

[Hellhammer]

step two says, "Boot from the install disc by holding alt key)

However I don't have the install disc.

What Snow Leopard disc do you have then? You need the retail version or the ones that came with that specific Mac

[ZenErik]

Boot with the snow leopard disk. Go into disk utility and reformat your HDD. Then install to that HDD.

[tarsus.6]

Got it! use snow leapord disk. and follow those directions :) thanks