how to restore my system?

first, i was doing this boot camp thing, when i was doing that, i kinda did it wrong. after i finished, when i tried to start from windows, it said disk error.
so i deleted the partition, and tried to do it again, then the boot camp said that i gota restore the HD to mac os extended journaled. so here is the problem, i have the xp sp3's disk and the original mac osx 10.5disk, and i had also ordered the mac osx 10.6 snow leopard which will be delivered after a few days. which disk should i use when i want to restore the HD?

by the way, i was using the macbook 5.1 2ghz 2 core 2gb ddr3 memory

Mac OS X disk I would say.

not the snow leopard one?

zodiac_01 said:

not the snow leopard one?

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Well i'm guessing the Snow Leopard you ordered was the upgrade version.

Not quite sure yet if SL upgrade version will let you do a fresh install. If it doesn't you would need to install Leopard then SL after.

i see....

so should i just use the disk, instead of restore first?

i have the 2 original disks, so do i just insert the disk and reboot the computer?
what is it like after i reboot??
can someone help?

zodiac_01 said:

i have the 2 original disks, so do i just insert the disk and reboot the computer?
what is it like after i reboot??
can someone help?

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Did these disks come with your computer? If not...they may not work with your Mac model, if they did not originally come with it.

Also...what do you mean by you want to "Restore your System"...are you simply erasing your hard drive & reinstalling the operating system?

Why do you need to do this...is it really necessary?

Is there anything on the hard drive you don't want erased?

Just asking questions to get a better idea of your situation,

- Nick

NOTE: Merged similar threads.

pigoo3 said:

Why do you need to do this...is it really necessary?

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It makes a little more sense when the crossposts are merged.

the boot camp thing let me do this

and the disk is original

restore the hard drive, i wonder how to do this..

and the disk is original