Restoring w/o disks?

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  1. Copious, Jun 2, 2009

    Copious macrumors newbie

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    Here's the story: I bought an old macbook off my friend. Now I want to restore the software and hard drive to just the bare bones: iTunes, Safari, stuff like that. I don't really know how to do that without the disks for OS X.2, which he doesn't have because he got it off of somebody else. Is there a way to do this that doesn't involve the disks, or am I going to have to go in and manually delete everything?

    Any help is appreciated.

    -Copious
     
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  2. angemon89, Jun 2, 2009

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    I would try to get my hands on the install discs or a retail copy of OSX. To get the install discs call up Apple and they will replace them for a small fee.

    By re-installing everything, OSX will be a lot snappier (I find) compared to if you just manually deleted everything.
     
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