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  1. bcleaner, Jun 28, 2009

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    i have a macbook purchased on craig'slist and have no start up cd's.
    the hardrive went bad and i need some disks. it was using os10.5 when bought. now i do have discs from a macbook pro from an older model. Will this work? just to get strated?
    If not where can i get the start up disks?
    Stranded
     
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  2. WildCowboy, Jun 28, 2009

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    No, they won't work. Contact Apple...they'll send you replacement discs for a nominal fee.
     
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  3. heatmiser, Jun 28, 2009

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    In the future, if you have an external disk, either make bootable backups, or restore your OS X disks to a partition on your external. This way, you won't need the disks to start over when next the drive (or computer) fails.
     
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  4. redwarrior, Jun 28, 2009

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    Also, in the future, be sure to title your thread appropriately. You will get more views/responses that way.;)
     
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