Bootcamp slayed my leopard! now I have to ride the tiger :(

Hi There.
I recently purchaced my macbook (used) and it had Os X Leopard on it. (10.5.x).
I tried to install windows using bootcamp, but after partitioning the whole system became unusable and upon rebooting, unbootable. I finally got the install disks from the previous owner but unfortunately they are tiger. 10.4.10! so I had to do an archive and install (with tiger) is there any way I can restore leopard y copying the system files from the 'previous system 1' folder to my current root directory? (essentially replacing the tiger files?) or is there any way I can get leopard again? or will I need to purchase it? I have asked the previous owner how he came to have leopard on the system and he says that it was purchased as such but this is impossible as I estimate the age of this pc is about 2 years to date. therefore he mustve upgraded somehow.
Thanking you in advance for any light on the matter.
p.s. excuse my hasty typing (in a hurry :))

Mercuree wrote:
Hi There.
I recently purchaced my macbook (used) and it had Os X Leopard on it. (10.5.x).
I tried to install windows using bootcamp, but after partitioning the whole system became unusable and upon rebooting, unbootable. I finally got the install disks from the previous owner but unfortunately they are tiger. 10.4.10! so I had to do an archive and install (with tiger) is there any way I can restore leopard y copying the system files from the 'previous system 1' folder to my current root directory? (essentially replacing the tiger files?) or is there any way I can get leopard again? or will I need to purchase it? I have asked the previous owner how he came to have leopard on the system and he says that it was purchased as such but this is impossible as I estimate the age of this pc is about 2 years to date. therefore he mustve upgraded somehow.
Thanking you in advance for any light on the matter.
p.s. excuse my hasty typing (in a hurry :))
Legally the previous owner should give you the Leopard DVD he used to install it on your machine.
That being said, the only other recourse as others have noted, is to purchase your own DVD of Leopard.

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