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[soemochris]

Hey

i got an imac (used) for christmas and i found i couldnt install stuff without a password

so i go to reset it, i do this, turn off and boot up, im prompted by a sign in thing, so i sign in with the new password and it shakes at me. i go back in to reset password and no accounts show

help

 

[holtchristian]

yikes- do u have a the os x cd? might wanna throw that in there

 

[soemochris]

yikes- do u have a the os x cd? might wanna throw that in there

yep, have both, what do i do?

btw im on my old windows machine now

 

[swiftaw]

yep, have both, what do i do?

btw im on my old windows machine now

put in the cd, hold the 'c' key while rebooting, re-install OSX

 

[soemochris]

put in the cd, hold the 'c' key while rebooting, re-install OSX

then?

 

[swiftaw]

then?

Well, once you reinstall the operating system you should be free to create a user account and you'll be all set.

 

[soemochris]

Well, once you reinstall the operating system you should be free to create a user account and you'll be all set.

where will this be shown?

 

[swiftaw]

where will this be shown?

Once you have reinstalled the OS, you will be greeted by a welcome screen that will then ask you to create a user

 

[soemochris]

Once you have reinstalled the OS, you will be greeted by a welcome screen that will then ask you to create a user

ok thanks

 

[Me1000]

I believe if you boot up to the DVD then goto the utilities menu, there is something there for a password reset!

However if you bought it used a clean install of the OS is probably the best thing anyway!

 

[IMcD23]

I believe if you boot up to the DVD then goto the utilities menu, there is something there for a password reset!

However if you bought it used a clean install of the OS is probably the best thing anyway!

This does work, but unless you want into their files or something like that, just reinstall and it will be like new

IMcD23

 

[soemochris]

ok

new problem

disc 2 of the install keeps making this weird soud, and it keeps going from the installer to a blue screen, no progress is made


my dad is phone applecare now, so i should get some more discs or somthing

 

[soemochris]

also its saying it cannot find root user

any idea how i can make one?

and how could i reset the system to factory settings?

 

[HLdan]

Okay first off you do not necessarily need disc one and two, you only need disc one. Disc two is for installing iLife and the other bundled software.

You need to completely erase the hard drive and install OS X. At the install screen choose the "options" button and select "erase and install". Then the next screen will show a "customize" button, use this to remove the useless languages and choose only the print driver you will using. Deselect the iLife installs such as iPhoto, iDVD, Garageband and iMovie or iWeb. Then continue and you should be good.

You can install the iLife suite later on or buy a copy of it from the Apple store if disc two is damaged.

 

[soemochris]

found a fix on www.macosxhints.com that let me re-run the setup assistant



and its working now