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Reinstalling Mac OS X On to white Macbook (Broken Optical Drive) (no hard drive to clone from)

I have (I Belive it's) a Late 2006 ot 2008 White Macbook. My Hardrive recently crash and i couldnt format it so i got a new Wester digital Internal Hard Drive, After putting in the hard drive i found out that i have to install Mac OS X To it. I have the Mac OS X Install Disk 1 and 2 but i do not have a working Optical Drive... I Do have a fire Wire and an iMac with a working optical drive. I Read some where online that i can use the iMac's Optical drive via the Firewire but i need assistance on that...

I read online that i need to boot the Macbook while holding T, Which i did

And boot the iMac holding C. But when i do that the iMac screen stays white, some one please help me...

MacBook, Other OS

Posted on Feb 2, 2013 3:45 PM

20 replies

Feb 2, 2013 6:08 PM in response to Demetrius2292

And what is on the iMac?

Could you get the ML installer on to the iMac? You get it from the App store. If you can do that you can run the ML installer and ask it to go to the target disk

Feb 2, 2013 6:12 PM in response to Eustace Mendis

iMac is On Mountain Lion. My Macbook used to run Mountain Lion as well

Feb 2, 2013 6:16 PM in response to Demetrius2292

i dont want to re-purcahse it, my brother gace me the disk and used his log in and i cant get in contact with him

Feb 2, 2013 6:20 PM in response to Demetrius2292

Well then the whole Leopard journey was a complete waste of time. Just go to the App store from your iMac, and download the Mountain Lion installer. You will be told that ML already exists on the iMac, but it won't stop you from downloading. Then run the installer with the MB drive in target disk mode. And tell the installer to go to that drive.

You will have to pay for Mountain Lion at least once. If you have already bought it, you can download it again without paying again. But you do need the correct id and password.

Feb 2, 2013 6:22 PM in response to Demetrius2292

I'm sorry, but I can see no other way to go. If you want ML on the macbook you will have to get the installer, either a new purchase or another download from the original purchase.

And this when I say good night.

Reinstalling Mac OS X On to white Macbook (Broken Optical Drive) (no hard drive to clone from)