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Q: My Macbook Pro has just had a new hard drive put in it but i still need to install snow leopard without a disk?

My Macbook pro has just had a new 500gb hard drive in it and osx snow leopard had not been put on it because i never got a disk when i bought it. It still comes up with the grey screen with the flashing folder which i think would be normal because there is nothing on the hard drive. How do i install OSX Snow Leopard back on it the cheapest way possible?

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MacBook Pro (13-inch Late 2011)

Posted on May 10, 2012 7:22 PM

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Q: My Macbook Pro has just had a new hard drive put in it but i still need to install snow leopard without a disk?

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  • by John Galt,

    John Galt John Galt May 10, 2012 7:30 PM in response to NoIdea123
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    May 10, 2012 7:30 PM in response to NoIdea123

    My Macbook pro has just had a new 500gb hard drive in it

     

    New Macs do not ship with system installation discs. When did you buy your computer?

     

    Who installed this hard disk? What happened to the one it replaced? Do you have a backup? What OS was originally installed? Details please.

  • by NoIdea123,

    NoIdea123 NoIdea123 May 10, 2012 7:42 PM in response to John Galt
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    May 10, 2012 7:42 PM in response to John Galt

    I bought it early Feb but it was a late 2011 model. Its actually a laptop but ive put it under the wrong community. Grangeburn office and It  in Hamilton installed it because the old one died and nothing could be retrieved from it. I dont have a back up and Snow leopard was originally installed but it came already on my hard drive.

  • by John Galt,

    John Galt John Galt May 10, 2012 8:18 PM in response to NoIdea123
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    May 10, 2012 8:18 PM in response to NoIdea123

    You might be in a bind. While is is normal for new Macs that shipped with Lion to omit a system installation DVD, yours was running Snow Leopard. Apple included a system installation CD or DVD for every computer that shipped with every computer through Snow Leopard. Lion was installed on every machine built starting about August 2011, ending the DVD era.

     

    Apparently your computer had been sitting in someone's inventory for a while, but that's no excuse for them to have removed the DVD from its box.

     

    Try booting Lion Internet Recovery. Read this:

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718

     

    I suspect Lion Recovery may not work since "your computer's eligibility for Lion will be verified with Apple" and you appear not to have purchased it.

     

    Please let me know what happens when you attempt to boot Lion Recovery.