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