Q: Is this situation hopeless?
My daughter gave me her old Macbook with OS 10.6 installed. She hadn't used it in quite a while and couldn't remember the password she'd used for it. She suggested that I just reformat the disk while booted off the system CD and erase the disk.
I did that. But when I tried to install the system software while booted up from the CD, a message on screen told me, "OSX cannot be installed on this computer" (or something like that).
Wha????
Since that time, I've tried to figure out other ways go get system software onto the laptop, with no success. I can't even find a way to UNerase the files that were on there. I've booted off both the OSX 10.6 system CD and DiskWarrior. Each time, the newly-formatted HD shows up but, checking the data about it, I see that there is no "owner" ... and that there are no "package" files ....
So is this laptop recoverable in any way or should I just take to the recycling bin now?
Posted on Jan 30, 2015 11:30 AM
Follow-Up: I was able to get the original Snow Leopard disks from my daughter and that solved everything.
As it turned out, I was trying to install OS 10.6 from a disk that came with my desktop computer. Apparently, this will never work. Laptops have their own special files and must be installed from a OS for Laptop computer.
Now I know!
Posted on Feb 12, 2015 7:09 AM