Hi guys, I bought a ibook off the internet and what do you know...it was networked and what not. So now I do not have the adminstrative password and cannot get a hold of the person who sold it to me. I purchased OS X Tiger and it says to delete the harddrive first then install it. How would I go about doing this? As in deleting the hard drive first that is. I'm new to the Mac world. any help would be great, thanks in advance.
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deleting hard drive and reinstalling os x
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bad disc drive or bad media, try resetting PRAM (search apple support for how to as i don't know off the top of my head)
Sure that it's kosher? It may be that the original owner put a firmware password on it to stop the admin password being overwritten by putting in a system disc.
qmtran said:it loads, saying that its getting ready to install then freezes.sometimes it spits the disk back out. any idea?
This sounds shady. If I were you I would be contacting ebay and paypal right now, to report a bad purchase. (I'm assuming you used ebay?)
Freezes when trying to install the OS sounds like a systemboard problem to me. Did you get any kind of warranty?
gammamonk said:
It could also be a problem with the optical drive. I've seen Tiger installs freeze part way through for this reason.