Restoring a MacBook Air without the DVDs that came with
A friend of mine needs to format his MBA but he lost the DVDs found in the original laptop package, which contained Leopard. Later on he purchased Snow Leopard and Lion: is there any possibility to start up by using the SL install DVD? Or should he ask Apple a copy of the original disks?
He can use the SL install DVD or use Lion's recovery. Either will work fine.
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Captfred
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I do have a gray application DVD that came with my MacBook Pro by how to use it
I do have a gray application DVD that came with my MacBook Pro by how to use it.
You don't, your signature says you have 10.7.5 and the disk is either 10.5 or 10.6, has outdated software on it.
Keep it in case of emergency in a very safe place in case you need to reinstall on a new drive, then upgrade to 10.7.5 again.
https://discussions.apple.com/community/notebooks/macbook_pro?view=documents -
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