My dvd superdrive doesn't work....I have licenses for Snow leopard ( upgrading a 2007 MBP) but don't know how to download it w/o buying it again...
want to use my last license for snow leopard in my old 2007 (2.16Ghz, core 2 duo w/ 4 GB ram) but my Superdive is broken. can I download the snow leopard and then put my license code in some where? I don't want to buy it again...if I don't have to...just trying to get to Mavericks....and I am one OS short...
Hi John,
If you have another Mac with Firewire & a working Optical drive, you can use that to Install it.
Check whether you need a 6 pin to 9 pin FW cable or whatever each end has.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1661
Put the Install DVD in the the other Mac, shut both down, connect with a Firewire cable, boot the other Mac holding the t key down, once the floating FW symbol shows up, boot the this Mac holding the Option/alt key down, eventually the Install Disk will show as a Boot Option on this one.
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