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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1179454" data-attributes="member: 190607"><p>Other thoughts:</p><p></p><p>The Installer disks that came with your Mac aren't necessarily specific to that model (though sometimes they are). Often, but not always, you can use the disks that came with a contemporaneous or newer model of Mac with another model of Macintosh.</p><p><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2681?viewlocale=en_US" target="_blank">What's a "computer-specific Mac OS X release"?</a></p><p></p><p>The commercial OS X disks that you can purchase separately (i.e. they aren't the ones that come with a new Mac) are universal. (Or at least they are for the models that are new enough to meet the hardware requirements.)</p><p><a href="http://store.apple.com/us/product/MAC_OS_X_SNGL?mco=MTk1MDMyODY" target="_blank">Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.)</a></p><p>Note that OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) is only $29.</p><p></p><p>You don't always need the original disks to run Disk Utility. You can run Repair Permissions from the copy of Disk Utility (that is automatically installed with OS X) that resides in your Applications/Utilities folder.</p><p></p><p>While you can't run Disk Utility/Repair Disk from the copy of Disk Utility that resides on your hard drive, you can run the equivalent of Repair Disk without the need of your OS X Installer disks by performing a Safe Boot, or by booting into Single User Mode and running FSCK:</p><p><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417" target="_blank">Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck</a></p><p><a href="http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455?viewlocale=en_US" target="_blank">Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode</a></p><p></p><p>You definitely need the OS X Installer Disks to run Hardware Test, but you can do a RAM test without them. Actually a more thorough RAM test, if you use:</p><p></p><p>rember (free)</p><p><a href="http://kelleycomputing.net:16080/rember/" target="_blank">Kelley Computing - Rember</a></p><p></p><p>___________________________________________</p><p></p><p>Randy B. Singer</p><p>Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)</p><p></p><p>Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance</p><p><a href="http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html" target="_blank">OS X Maintenance And Troubleshooting</a></p><p>___________________________________________</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1179454, member: 190607"] Other thoughts: The Installer disks that came with your Mac aren't necessarily specific to that model (though sometimes they are). Often, but not always, you can use the disks that came with a contemporaneous or newer model of Mac with another model of Macintosh. [url=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2681?viewlocale=en_US]What's a "computer-specific Mac OS X release"?[/url] The commercial OS X disks that you can purchase separately (i.e. they aren't the ones that come with a new Mac) are universal. (Or at least they are for the models that are new enough to meet the hardware requirements.) [url=http://store.apple.com/us/product/MAC_OS_X_SNGL?mco=MTk1MDMyODY]Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.)[/url] Note that OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) is only $29. You don't always need the original disks to run Disk Utility. You can run Repair Permissions from the copy of Disk Utility (that is automatically installed with OS X) that resides in your Applications/Utilities folder. While you can't run Disk Utility/Repair Disk from the copy of Disk Utility that resides on your hard drive, you can run the equivalent of Repair Disk without the need of your OS X Installer disks by performing a Safe Boot, or by booting into Single User Mode and running FSCK: [url=http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1417]Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck[/url] [url=http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1455?viewlocale=en_US]Mac OS X: Starting up in Safe Mode[/url] You definitely need the OS X Installer Disks to run Hardware Test, but you can do a RAM test without them. Actually a more thorough RAM test, if you use: rember (free) [url=http://kelleycomputing.net:16080/rember/]Kelley Computing - Rember[/url] ___________________________________________ Randy B. Singer Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions) Macintosh OS X Routine Maintenance [url=http://www.macattorney.com/ts.html]OS X Maintenance And Troubleshooting[/url] ___________________________________________ [/QUOTE]
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