Can't istall Mac OS X

[MartinZajicek]

Hello,

yesterday I tried to fully reinstall the whole system, so I wiped the HDD, put my OS installation DVD into the superdrive, started to install but about a half a big exclamation mark with a sign: "Install failed" appeard. I tried it again but with the same conclusion. After that I wonder what is happening so I took the installation DVD from the superdrive and saw that its scratched.

It means that i cant install OS from that drive anymore. What now?

Thanks for respond,
Martin Zajicek
Czech Republic

 

[miles01110]

Buy a new disk, obviously.

 

[MartinZajicek]

there is no way i can get it somehow over the internet or land another installation dvd from a friend? will that work?

thanks for reply anyway

 

[old-wiz]

The restore disks are model specific, so if you borrow one from a friend with a different Mac, it will not work.

Retail disks can install on any system that meets the HW requirements.

 

[MartinZajicek]

Thanks for replies.
Actually my friend got retail disc and it worked, so everything is fine now.

See you, MZ

 

[Mutinygraphiks]

The restore disks are model specific, so if you borrow one from a friend with a different Mac, it will not work.

Retail disks can install on any system that meets the HW requirements.

not all are specific it depends if its the restore disk from a computer or an upgrade disk, if you upgraded to the specific OSX you have on your computer you can use another snow leopard disk, but you can usually find a leopard or snow leopard disk on websites i.e. craigslist or ebay for usually $20 dollars.

 

[Detrius]

The restore disks are model specific, so if you borrow one from a friend with a different Mac, it will not work.

Retail disks can install on any system that meets the HW requirements.

not all are specific it depends if its the restore disk from a computer or an upgrade disk, if you upgraded to the specific OSX you have on your computer you can use another snow leopard disk, but you can usually find a leopard or snow leopard disk on websites i.e. craigslist or ebay for usually $20 dollars.

Right, so what old-wiz said is still correct.