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Patman100

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Feb 7, 2009
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hello,
I have a white macbook with a 160 gb drive, 2 gigs of ram, and 2.4 processor, and i have been having problems with leopard recently and i want to add a new HD, so i would need the DVD's to restore leopard in both cases, well just to try out the DVD's i put it in, and then i clicked the appropriate icon to install and then i clicked on restart as the on screen instructions told me, only when it restarted it would stay at the apple symbol and grey screen for almost 10 minutes, and i would try again and again. i don't think it is the optical drives fault because to rule that out i tried our imacs restore DVD's and i was able to get to the language screen unlike with the macbook screen. The macbook discs are a bit scratched up, i left them out one weekend and well bad news for them, but even with the scratched the macbook was able to read them with finder, i just wasn't able to get to installer after the restart. Am i going to have to buy a new mac os leopard disc from apple? will they give me new ones? Is there a limit on the restore DVD's because i have done this once before. Some more info, these are genuine apple discs that came with the MacBook. Thanks in advance.
 

Patman100

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Feb 7, 2009
8
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yes they are scratched and they are 100% mine, i didn't buy them off someone else, nor did i pirate them and burn it, i got them with the macbook, and the macbook was new 2, so not refurbished
 

Consultant

macrumors G5
Jun 27, 2007
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The macbook discs are a bit scratched up, i left them out one weekend and well bad news for them, but even with the scratched the macbook was able to read them with finder, i just wasn't able to get to installer after the restart.


Sounds like they are too scratched up.

Try third party scratch repairing kits, or just buy a new set.

Just because the system can read the file structures, doesn't mean files are not damaged from the scratches and are unusable.
 

txhockey9404

macrumors 6502a
Feb 25, 2008
548
1
Would you please let me know if you can get them and how? My iMac's disks are not working and I REALLY need a restore.
 
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