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Broken Hard Drive and CD Drive

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marddin

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Mar 11, 2009
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I've had my white macbook for a while now and my hard drive has given out as well as the cd drive.

I plan on purchasing a new hard drive and installing it then using my Leopard OS cd to install the OS onto the new hard drive, problem, my cd drive is broken.

Should I go buy a external CD drive, use it once, then return it? Or find someones to borrow? Would using an external USB cd drive work to install the OS onto the new hard drive?

Any responses would be appreciated. Thanks.
 
marddin said:
I've had my white macbook for a while now and my hard drive has given out as well as the cd drive.

I plan on purchasing a new hard drive and installing it then using my Leopard OS cd to install the OS onto the new hard drive, problem, my cd drive is broken.

Should I go buy a external CD drive, use it once, then return it? Or find someones to borrow? Would using an external USB cd drive work to install the OS onto the new hard drive?

Any responses would be appreciated. Thanks.
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If you are under warranty get Apple to fix your DVD drive.
 
An external CD drive would work. Do you know anyone else with a Mac? If so, pop the CD in their Mac, boot it to firewire target mode, and mount it to your computer (assuming you have a firewire port). Or if you have access to another Mac and an external hard drive, make a disc image of the install disc and install it from the external hard drive.
 
Dimwhit said:
An external CD drive would work. Do you know anyone else with a Mac? If so, pop the CD in their Mac, boot it to firewire target mode, and mount it to your computer (assuming you have a firewire port). Or if you have access to another Mac and an external hard drive, make a disc image of the install disc and install it from the external hard drive.
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Can you do this using an ethernet cable instead of firewire?
 
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