Apple Power Mac G5 Desktop - M9455LL/A (June, 2004)‏

I recently purchased a "Apple Power Mac G5 Desktop - M9455LL/A (June, 2004)‏" on ebay. The seller told me they wiped the hard drive because he legally had to and now i have no idea how to reinstall it. Please help!

G'day and welcome to the forums.

Did you get the original install discs with you computer or did the seller shaft you? if you have the disc pop it in, boot and hold down 'C' on chime, leave installer and go to Utilities > Disk Utility, erase th drive and into Parttition > options and select Apple Partition Map. Back to Installer and proceed.

If you have no discs that will be the first thing you have to get. The final operating system for that model is OS X.5.8 known as Leopard. Go to eBay and such and look for Leopard OS X.5 but make sure you get the black coloured retail install DVD and not silver grey model specific discs.

harryb2448 said:

If you have no discs that will be the first thing you have to get. the final operating system for that model is OS X.5.8. Go to eBay and such and look for Leopard OS X>5 but make sure you get the black coloured retail install DVD and not silver grey model specific discs.

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Not sure if this is still the case, but you used to be apple to call apple support at "(800) APL - CARE" and order the recovery disks that shipped with your machine for 16$ + Shipping. This would give you your specific recovery disks with whatever OS was installed on the machine at it's original purchase date.

That's unlikely to work as this machine is VERY VERY OLD, even by Apple support standards.

Unless the OP can score a RETAIL copy of Leopard or Tiger, he's probably out of luck. Really ought to whack that seller on the back of the head for omitting the system disks.