Help! -Can't figure out how to Reinstall OS X on my iMac!!
Hello all,
Had a quick question that I can't seem to find a proper answer to..
I'm wanting to place my OS X Install Discs on my External HD as backups.
Turns out I have another computer (iMac Tangerine) that does not have a DVD-ROM drive, just an OLD CD-ROM drive (that doesn't even support CD-R incidentally - so that's out)...
Sort of stumped. My best guess is that maybe if I move the OS X Discs onto my External Hard Drive - using my MacBook - I can then plug the Ex. HD into the iMac (has firewire) and perform the much-needed OS X Reinstall....
Tools:
MacBook
LaCie 150GB External HD
iMac - fried OS, no System Pref. No Disk Utility, won't accept online apps I've tried to download etc. etc..
Need to kill the whole thing off - and reinstall everything on the iMac.
Please help.
Thanks very much in advance...
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Thanks for the input Roam. This may be the toughest situation you've heard of - because -I actually tried what you're suggesting - it was the first thing I did in fact.
I do not have the OS reinstall discs on CD; only DVD.
I DO however have the original OS 9.2 Discs. But they will not load using the "hold down C and restart" thing either.. It simply does not recognize the command, due to the fact that there are so many Apps/Utilities that have been lost on the OS 10.3.9...
Even worse - Applications and Utilities such as System Preferences, Installer, Disk Utility etc. have been deleted/destroyed...
In addition, the iMac will not recognize the Target Drive option either when I try to connect it to my MacBook with a FireWire...
The one thing that does work with it - is my External Hard Drive..... But I can't figure out how to get the OS X DVD onto the External HD in order to utilize that possibility..
I can't figure out a reasonable way to get anything done whatsoever... It's just frozen. I've been at a loss for 2 weeks now. Racking my noggin..
I wish there were a big red RESET button that I could press..
Essentially that's what needs to happen.
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