Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
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
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You will need to use the Online Internet Recovery system, Hold down the Command+Option+r keys at startup until you see a Spinning Globe in the center of the screen, and reinstall Lion on your system. Then if you want to can Buy Mountain Lion from the Mac App Store under your own Apple ID and install it.
This happened because all of the downloaded version of OS X, If bought as an Upgrade from a pervious version of OS X, are tied to the Apple ID of the person that bought it. It is not tied to the machine.
The only version of OS X that is tied to the machine is the original version that came Pre-Installed on it when bought New. The seller should of wiped the drive and reinstalled Lion on it before they sold it to you. So yes they lied to you. But more then likely were not aware of this fact.
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
Erased hard drive now when installing osx is asking for apple id to reinstall osx but I purchased from someone else
