Imac transfer

[basslik]

Hi everyone, here's what's up and I'm hope I'm on the right track?

My Imac 1.83 took a crap last Thursday, so I bought another Imac, which is a Imac 2.0. The person i bought the Imac from says he lost his leopard install disk, but it currently has Snow Leopard. I want to be legit and wipe his Snow leopard clean cause I have all my original install disk's, from Tiger to Leopard & Snow Leopard. Can I use my rightfully owned install disks on this machine?. Thank you all and have a great week.

 

[rkaufmann87]

Hi everyone, here's what's up and I'm hope I'm on the right track?

My Imac 1.83 took a crap last Thursday, so I bought another Imac, which is a Imac 2.0. The person i bought the Imac from says he lost his leopard install disk, but it currently has Snow Leopard. I want to be legit and wipe his Snow leopard clean cause I have all my original install disk's, from Tiger to Leopard & Snow Leopard. Can I use my rightfully owned install disks on this machine?. Thank you all and have a great week.

No your discs will not work, the discs that ship with machines are machine specific. However for a nominal cost Apple will replace the original discs for you. Contact AppleCare, explain the problem and they will get you to someone that can take your order for the replacement discs.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57

 

[basslik]

No your discs will not work, the discs that ship with machines are machine specific. However for a nominal cost Apple will replace the original discs for you. Contact AppleCare, explain the problem and they will get you to someone that can take your order for the replacement discs.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HE57

Thanks for your time to reply. Will contact Apple to get a replacement OS, also now it has me wondering that the dude who sold me the Imac did a fresh install of Snow Leopard, so I guessing he just decided to keep the original Tiger disks and also installed Snow Leopard?

 

[Hellhammer]

If you have a retail version of Leopard and/or Snow Leopard, than you can use them. Only the grey install discs are system specific.

 

[basslik]

If you have a retail version of Leopard and/or Snow Leopard, than you can use them. Only the grey install discs are system specific.

Thanks for the chime in Hellhammer, yes when I bought my imac 1.83 it came with tiger grey disks, then through the hoopla I bought Leopard upgrade disk, then later Snow Leopard upgrade disk. Since the machine has died on me I now know the Tiger disks are useless, but since I still have working Leopard, and Snow Leopard, can I use one of those disks? and by retail, are my upgrade Leopard & Snow leopard upgrades retail?, I can boot from them and do clean installs?, and If I can use them disks and register with Apple with this new machine, and not the old machine , is that ok?, thanks again and I really appreciate your folks time helping me out.

 

[Hellhammer]

Thanks for the chime in Hellhammer, yes when I bought my imac 1.83 it came with tiger grey disks, then through the hoopla I bought Leopard upgrade disk, then later Snow Leopard upgrade disk. Since the machine has died on me I now know the Tiger disks are useless, but since I still have working Leopard, and Snow Leopard, can I use one of those disks? and by retail, are my upgrade Leopard & Snow leopard upgrades retail?, I can boot from them and do clean installs?, and If I can use them disks and register with Apple with this new machine, and not the old machine , is that ok?, thanks again and I really appreciate your folks time helping me out.

Yes, those "upgrade" discs are retail versions and will work with any Mac (as long as it shipped with that or earlier version of OS X. E.g. the retail version of 10.6.0 may not work with 2011 MBPs since they ship with newer version and drivers).

 

[basslik]

Yes, those "upgrade" discs are retail versions and will work with any Mac (as long as it shipped with that or earlier version of OS X. E.g. the retail version of 10.6.0 may not work with 2011 MBPs since they ship with newer version and drivers).

HellHammer thank you bud, got it installed but I'm bummed out cause the Snow Leopard disk is stuck in the superdrive!, the drive is working cause every time I restart it wants to run the Snow Leopard, but it won't eject, I press the eject button and you can see the eject icon show up on the screen but it won't come out?, I also tried the terminal cammand drutil eject, and can hear the drive trying to spit it out and no go, I seen a few youtube vids on how to get it out but none of them show the same Imac i have and tried pretty much everything. Any suggestions? thanks Hellhammer

 

[Hellhammer]

HellHammer thank you bud, got it installed but I'm bummed out cause the Snow Leopard disk is stuck in the superdrive!, the drive is working cause every time I restart it wants to run the Snow Leopard, but it won't eject, I press the eject button and you can see the eject icon show up on the screen but it won't come out?, I also tried the terminal cammand drutil eject, and can hear the drive trying to spit it out and no go, I seen a few youtube vids on how to get it out but none of them show the same Imac i have and tried pretty much everything. Any suggestions? thanks Hellhammer

http://guides.macrumors.com/Force_Eject_a_Stuck_CD_or_DVD

 

[basslik]

Thanks ay, well after trying everything I put the Imac face down on a towel and started it up then pressed the eject button on the keyboard and the darn thing came out with a little help from gravity. The snow Leopard CD seemed fine when it came out and looking at it. So far no other CD's has gotten stuck?, hopefully that's the last time I saw that happen. Hey hellhammer are you a musician?

 

[Hellhammer]

Hey hellhammer are you a musician?

Not really. I can play all instruments okay but I don't own any. I prefer listening