2nd hand snow leopard install

brasiliangringo · Nov 24, 2009, 10:31 AM

Can i use my freinds 09' install DVDs from his Macbook to load Snow Leopard onto my 2008 unibody?

Will this work ?

r.j.s · Nov 24, 2009, 10:34 AM

Legally? No.

Technically? No, the discs are tied to the computer model they ship with.

brasiliangringo · Nov 24, 2009, 12:07 PM

Yes you're right - This isnt exactly related to my original thread but I forget when I owned 2 machines I once needed to do a reinstall on the older one (MB) but didn't have the install disks so tried using the DVD restore tool (from a newer MBP DVD) to access my backup on an ext drive to no avail !

However I did use the install disk from another 3rd machine (older MBP to access restore tool & restore from backup!

So now basically have same disk image on current MB unibody as on the MBP (santa rosa) i used to use.. (i bought MB 2nd hand and needed to reinstall it with my stuff on)

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Nov 24, 2009, 12:07 PM	#3
brasiliangringo Thread Starter macrumors member Join Date: Feb 2009	Yes you're right - This isnt exactly related to my original thread but I forget when I owned 2 machines I once needed to do a reinstall on the older one (MB) but didn't have the install disks so tried using the DVD restore tool (from a newer MBP DVD) to access my backup on an ext drive to no avail ! However I did use the install disk from another 3rd machine (older MBP to access restore tool & restore from backup! So now basically have same disk image on current MB unibody as on the MBP (santa rosa) i used to use.. (i bought MB 2nd hand and needed to reinstall it with my stuff on)