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Offline dplank

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« on: September 29, 2015, 01:17:31 PM »
Does anyone have the system discs for a Late 2009 MacBook? I want to give this computer to my son, but I need to give it to him in completely blank condition. I need to wipe the hard drive and reinstall the system and accompanying applications. Unfortunately, I do not have the original discs wallbash.gif

Any help would be appreciated.

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« Reply #1 on: September 29, 2015, 02:14:21 PM »
Which OS do you need? Some may still be available from Apple or from eBay.
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« Reply #2 on: September 29, 2015, 02:31:42 PM »
QUOTE(jchuzi @ Sep 29 2015, 07:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Which OS do you need? Some may still be available from Apple or from eBay.



Just the one that will allow me to reinstall a workable OS. I really don't know which OS that is.
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« Reply #3 on: September 29, 2015, 02:42:18 PM »
Why do you need to delete the whole drive? If the current OS is working without problems, just leave it installed. It's probably not the one that came installed on the machine, anyway. You can certainly erase any apps and their data that you don't want to remain on the drive. Mostly I'd just delete any financial stuff and probably emails, contacts, and passwords. You can also delete that stuff that might be on an internal Time Machine drive. Don't make things harder than it needs to be. wink.gif

One other thing you might want to do is delete email accounts (and email) and reauthorize the computer in iTunes.
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« Reply #4 on: September 29, 2015, 02:47:39 PM »
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Sep 29 2015, 07:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Why do you need to delete the whole drive? If the current OS is working without problems, just leave it installed. It's probably not the one that came installed on the machine, anyway. You can certainly erase any apps and their data that you don't want to remain on the drive. Mostly I'd just delete any financial stuff and probably emails, contacts, and passwords. You can also delete that stuff that might be on an internal Time Machine drive. Don't make things harder than it needs to be. wink.gif

One other thing you might want to do is delete email accounts (and email) and reauthorize the computer in iTunes.


Thanks, I may try that.
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« Reply #5 on: September 29, 2015, 02:53:24 PM »
QUOTE(dplank @ Sep 29 2015, 03:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
QUOTE(jchuzi @ Sep 29 2015, 07:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
Which OS do you need? Some may still be available from Apple or from eBay.



Just the one that will allow me to reinstall a workable OS. I really don't know which OS that is.
Which OS is installed in the machine? You can always re-install that one. According to MacTracker, the original OS was 10.6.1 Apple still sells 10.6.8 disks. You can update to 10.6.8 for free via Software Update if there's an earlier version installed. From there, you can go to App Store and install Yosemite for free (or El Capitan if you wait one more day). Yosemite probably won't be available after today.

Jim's advice is good, as always. If you follow it, I'll add one more thing: Secure Empty the trash.
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« Reply #6 on: September 29, 2015, 03:32:33 PM »
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...advice is good, as always. If you follow it
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« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2015, 09:12:22 PM »
QUOTE(Xairbusdriver @ Sep 29 2015, 08:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>
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...advice is good, as always. If you follow it
wallbash.gif That's where I've been going wrong! wacko.gif blush-anim-cl.gif



I found the discs at Apple. They sold them to me for $17.

Thanks for the help guys.
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