Erased hard drive now when installing osx is asking for apple id to reinstall osx but I purchased from someone else

In disk utility, I go to reinstall osx which is lion, but it asks for the apple id that purchased lion, I don't have this as I bought it from somebody else... is there any other way of reinstalling it?

Its a late 2011 macbook pro

any help will be much appreicated

keyboard-OTHER

Posted on Feb 15, 2013 3:46 AM

31 replies

Jun 27, 2014 4:10 PM in response to Shootist007

hi so i was reading and it seems like you know more about this sorry for pulling this subject up again but im having the same problem but when i try to instal os x lion it keeps asking for an apple id that purchased os x lion

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