Help, I have a macbook pro and I need to re-load the OS, But...
I don't have any disks for it. Its a 4 yr old laptop ('08 mbp, 2.4). I put a new HD in (old one went bad) and I need to load the OS on it.
Problem is I have no disks to do so. I have another mac. Is there any way I can connect it to my other one and download the OS or anything? I have a 13" mbp with the disks, but I probably cant load the OS from those can I?
I have snow leopard disk I bought when I had leopard, and also have upgraded to Lion. But don't i need an actual disk to load a basic/main OS to upgrade to snow leopard then to lion?
Does the apple store do this? Or do I have to find a generic leopard disk and load it from there?
Please, any help would be greatly appreciated.
You may be able to load the OS from your other MBP disks, if they are the same modal MBP...
You could also do a clone of your other MBP to the blank one, use Carbon Copy Coner and a FireWire cable.
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