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TheYankees1903

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I have a Macbook 2.4 GHz with Mac OS X and Windows XP installed and the thing is as slow and as buggy as can be. I want to wipe it completely clean but my disk drive is broken and I do not know where my restore disks are anyway...

My question is how do I restore my Macbook (with Leopard) to factory defaults (getting rid of all users, programs, files, Windows) without the restore disks?

Please Help,
TheYankees1903 :apple:
 
I have a Macbook 2.4 GHz with Mac OS X and Windows XP installed and the thing is as slow and as buggy as can be. I want to wipe it completely clean but my disk drive is broken and I do not know where my restore disks are anyway...

My question is how do I restore my Macbook (with Leopard) to factory defaults (getting rid of all users, programs, files, Windows) without the restore disks?

Please Help,
TheYankees1903 :apple:

You cant, sorry. Find the discs then you can do it.
 
But...

No way to completely restore it? I know all of the PCs I owned were able to do so through the BIOS?

Anyway at all I can do it on my Mac? I am open to any ideas... My disc drive doesn't work...

PLEASE ADVISE,
TheYankees1903 :apple:
 
No way to completely restore it? I know all of the PCs I owned were able to do so through the BIOS?

Anyway at all I can do it on my Mac? I am open to any ideas... My disc drive doesn't work...

PLEASE ADVISE,
TheYankees1903 :apple:

No you can't restore on PCs with the BIOS either; what you're thinking of are those restore partitions on the HDD and no Apple doesn't not have that.

You need the original DVDs.
 
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