damomma

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Q: i just bought two ibooks. they power up but all the screen will display is a little folder that blinks icons but thats all i have two disks for software installation and software restore but all it does is that folder thingie. please help.

Please help. Is there any other way to reset to factory settings without the disks.

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Posted on Nov 20, 2013 8:38 PM

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by dalstott,

dalstott Nov 21, 2013 3:43 PM in response to damomma
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Nov 21, 2013 3:43 PM in response to damomma

You need the original installation disks specific for each machine or compatible Mac OS X retail disks which you can buy on eBay or from several dealers.

To see which OS X you can use go to thse links and look up the specs on your iBooks.

http://www.everymac.com/

http://mactracker.ca/

Links to sources.

http://www.welovemacs.com/apsyso.html

http://hardcoremac.stores.yahoo.net/

http://www.buycheapr.com/us/result.jsp?ga=us14&q=leopard+10.5+os+x#

http://store.fastmac.com/index.php?cPath=10_5_6

http://oldermac.hardsdisk.net/oldmac.html#hard

http://rescuemyclassicmac.com/index.html

http://www.pure-mac.com/appud.html

http://lowendmac.com/2013/classic-mac-os-downloads-and-updates/
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