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Originally Posted by Ilagon
My Macbook HD crashed on me, so I bought a MBP HD off Craigslist. I tried installing Leopard from a friend's CD and it didn't work. I also tried a Tiger CD from another friend and didn't work. After much research online, people were saying that I needed to order the original installation discs from Apple Care, and then upgrade from there.
I just came back from the Apple store and bought the $35 Snow Leopard, and it's installing as I type this!! The guy tried to sell me the Mac Box Set for $199, saying that the just the OS disc would not work.
Crossing my fingers that the install goes okay!!  |
There are different revisions of the OS discs. Chances are you were using older discs that didn't support the hardware on your MBP as they change slightly from time to time. The SL disc works because it has all the latest drivers included.