2011 Macbook Pro appears to have only Win7
Hey all,
I'm a Mac newbie. Took a 2011 Macbook in trade for a Windows laptop from a friend because he said "It don't work good." I booted it up and I see what he meant. Macbook boots into Windows.
Here's what I found:
Syatem tray has Bootcamp in it. When I prompt it to boot into Mac OS, it advises that can't be located on the disc and reboots into Windows.
Pulled the back off the Macbook and verified it has a 320GB HDD
Windows C Drive properties show 262 of 297 GB free. This is normal for a Win 7 installation in my experience.
It would seem that the previous owner installed Bootcamp and then Win7. When they did so, they must have assigned the entire HDD as the Windows partition which overwrote the MacOS and made this a Windows only machine. There are a coupe of weird quirks I've discovered in the few hours I've been playing with it: Apple boot up sounds are present as opposed to the Win boot sound and the Recycle bin is not on the desktop and can't be placed there via the control panel. I know, silly Windows problems.
Anyway, I digress. If I buy a Snow Leopard install disc (what came on it according to Apple), will I have issues doing the install since this is essentially a windows machine? Should I just pull the HDD and Fat32 format it before starting the install?
I've spent several hours overnight reading lots of different Apple forums and articles and haven't seen anyone with my single OS issue. Any help is appreciated.
SARR001
You'll want to give Apple a call and have them send you the restore media for your model. Typically, the retail version of the OS will not support a model that shipped with that same version. That's usually do to drivers and other hardware support unique to that model that was never included when the retail version was released. Typically a retail version isn't updated. So when it first comes out, it you were to go to a store six month later, it would still be the same version. Essentially, anything that would have been released after the launch of the OS wouldn't be supported by the retail version. Apple will provide you with the correct restore media for your model for a reasonable fee... typically just the cost of the DVD and the shipping.
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