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HDD dead, No OS discs...

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CountDotula

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Oct 13, 2010
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Hi guys,

First of all, let me say I'm an absolute Mac n00b...

My fiance's 2-3 year old Macbook has died (Grey screen with flashing question mark on boot), have tried every solution under the sun to come to the conclusion the HDD is dead.

I know how to replace the HDD but my problem comes with the OS... He no longer has the discs that came with the Macbook (I smacked him for losing them!) and apart from that, his friend installed Snow Leopard on it a few weeks before the HDD died, I think he was hoping to have that installed on it if I can repair it.

What can I do that isn't going to cost me the earth? Ideally, I would like to install Snow Leopard but don't have a copy or know where to get one and am assuming a Windows install would be out of the question without BootCamp...

Any help would be much appreciated.
 
I assumed that was just an upgrade and that a previous OS had to be installed on the HDD for it to work...
So you're telling me I can fix this for $29 + the cost of a new HDD?

flopticalcube said:
You can buy a copy of Snow Leopard and put that on. All your data will be lost, of course. Check the link in my sig for anything you might not have tried yet.
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Luckily, all data was backed up so that's not an issue :)
Checked your link, have tried all those (except for the ones that require discs of course)
 
CountDotula said:
I assumed that was just an upgrade and that a previous OS had to be installed on the HDD for it to work...
So you're telling me I can fix this for $29 + the cost of a new HDD?
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The standard $29 retail DVD can be installed to an empty drive :)
 
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