Sell MacBook Pro with fresh Mavericks install
Hello everyone
About 5 years ago I got my first Mac, a MBP late 2008. A few weeks ago I got a new one and have decided to give the old one to some family in England (I live in Denmark myself). So I deleted the data on the harddrive (7 pases cause why not) and booted into the recovery mode in order to reinstall Mavericks.
So I needed an Apple ID in order to do so. No problem, the family gave me theirs but the installer complained about the country of the ID and hence the request couldn't be completed. Oh well, I tried again in order to somehow get a clue on what's going on.
Now I'm met with a "This Apple ID has not purchased Lion". The original OS on the machine was Leopard, but I upgraded to Snow Leopard right away so I still have that original disk. However, the CD-drive is not working (whenever any kind of disk is inserted it's ejected after a few secs. That's a problem that's 3 years old or so, and I didn't bother to fix it because I've never used it and the warranty had expired) so I can't just install a fresh copy of that.
I can't use my own Apple ID and install Mavericks, because they can't change it.
I can't use the original install DVD and install an old version of OS X (not to mention that they'd have to pay for all updates up to Mavericks).
Mavericks itself is a free install, so I don't quite get why this has to be such a hassle.
I'm considering using an USB-drive to install a copy of Mavericks. I'd download the installer by logging into the App Store with their Apple ID and then dd the file into a generic flash drive.
Any ideas to make this easier?
TL;DR how to change ownership of MacBook Pro including fresh install of Mavericks, can't use the original installation DVD.
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