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Bootcamp/XP overwrites OS X on Mac??? help!!!
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<blockquote data-quote="fifthmanstandin" data-source="post: 349463" data-attributes="member: 28508"><p>He used an XP cd that came as a full version on his girlfriend's computer, and it uses the serial number that came on the case. So assumeably it has been installed into her computer. But even if it has been installed in another system, if it hasn't been registered online (because he can't get the computer to get a signal) what would be the problem, I'm not a programmer and I'm sure you know what you're talking about, but I'd just like to know so that I could tell him, because that's the first thing he's going to say. </p><p></p><p>Someone on another forum told me that OS X boot discs are specific for induvidual models of Macs, so a macbook won't work for an iMac, according to him. you can see it here :<a href="http://www.macusers.org/showthread.php?p=18771#post18771" target="_blank">http://www.macusers.org/showthread.php?p=18771#post18771</a></p><p></p><p>and from what I understand the disc we used was 10.1.2 OS X and that we borrowed from a friend it's from an iMac, I could be misunderstanding, but that's what he's told me. </p><p></p><p>Here's the reason we don't have any software or anything that came with both of our computers"</p><p></p><p>about a year ago my friend loaned a good amount of money to an aquaintance of his, about a month ago he saw the guy again who has some ties to a computer place with surplus crap, So the guy pays my friend back in two 24" iMac's, traded as is, no refunds, only the unit and the mouse/keyboards. He agreed and so there are absolutely no ways to get any of the software or anything else. </p><p></p><p>So there's a possibility that there's some security sitting in the way of us re-formatting, we had to re-do the admin password in order to access pretty much anything (we did this using the boot disc that his friend had, and it worked, but we couldn't re-install OS X)</p><p></p><p>It fails during the OS X install, you can select from the options on the toolbar atop the screen but once you get to the install part it says that you have to restart the computer because it won't work (the exact message escapes my memory at the moment)</p><p>It can't be a bad hardrive because before his dumbass started messing with it it worked fine, all of the re-install attempts came before he installed bootcamp and screwed it all up, and I tried the same process on my working MAC and it told me the same thing, that it wouldn't work and to restart. </p><p></p><p>and if the drivers on the disc were specific to the disc, the drivers were said to be on the second disc according to the label, would that still cause a problem even with using the first disc?</p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks for all your help up to here, it's a really frusterating situation so I thank you. The main reason I'm so gung-** about all this is that now because it's not working he very well may pawn this $1900 computer and if I can sweet talk him I may end up with two of them, wouldn't that be sweet?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="fifthmanstandin, post: 349463, member: 28508"] He used an XP cd that came as a full version on his girlfriend's computer, and it uses the serial number that came on the case. So assumeably it has been installed into her computer. But even if it has been installed in another system, if it hasn't been registered online (because he can't get the computer to get a signal) what would be the problem, I'm not a programmer and I'm sure you know what you're talking about, but I'd just like to know so that I could tell him, because that's the first thing he's going to say. Someone on another forum told me that OS X boot discs are specific for induvidual models of Macs, so a macbook won't work for an iMac, according to him. you can see it here :[url]http://www.macusers.org/showthread.php?p=18771#post18771[/url] and from what I understand the disc we used was 10.1.2 OS X and that we borrowed from a friend it's from an iMac, I could be misunderstanding, but that's what he's told me. Here's the reason we don't have any software or anything that came with both of our computers" about a year ago my friend loaned a good amount of money to an aquaintance of his, about a month ago he saw the guy again who has some ties to a computer place with surplus crap, So the guy pays my friend back in two 24" iMac's, traded as is, no refunds, only the unit and the mouse/keyboards. He agreed and so there are absolutely no ways to get any of the software or anything else. So there's a possibility that there's some security sitting in the way of us re-formatting, we had to re-do the admin password in order to access pretty much anything (we did this using the boot disc that his friend had, and it worked, but we couldn't re-install OS X) It fails during the OS X install, you can select from the options on the toolbar atop the screen but once you get to the install part it says that you have to restart the computer because it won't work (the exact message escapes my memory at the moment) It can't be a bad hardrive because before his dumbass started messing with it it worked fine, all of the re-install attempts came before he installed bootcamp and screwed it all up, and I tried the same process on my working MAC and it told me the same thing, that it wouldn't work and to restart. and if the drivers on the disc were specific to the disc, the drivers were said to be on the second disc according to the label, would that still cause a problem even with using the first disc? Thanks for all your help up to here, it's a really frusterating situation so I thank you. The main reason I'm so gung-** about all this is that now because it's not working he very well may pawn this $1900 computer and if I can sweet talk him I may end up with two of them, wouldn't that be sweet? [/QUOTE]
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