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<blockquote data-quote="exxtrazzz" data-source="post: 1611109" data-attributes="member: 334954"><p><strong>mac</strong></p><p></p><p>Hello ! It's a macbook 13' inch early 2008 (plastic) model. It originally came with leopard os x 10.5 but I bought it second hand so it was updated to lion os and I don't have an original CD. "Block" logo indicated that there was no OS I guess, because mac tried to boot from an empty HDD, so I changed the boot to "Recovery HD" . The main problem is that I can't get that mac to install a new mac os lion.. I don't have a CD of it (CD drive of mac doesn't work) and when I try to reinstall it via mac itself it asks me appstore id and then I get error "This item is temporaraily unavailable". If I try to do it via usb bootable (mac os x installer in usb stick) it gives me error "Resource busy" .. So is it possible to fix it without taking it to mac professionals??</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="exxtrazzz, post: 1611109, member: 334954"] [b]mac[/b] Hello ! It's a macbook 13' inch early 2008 (plastic) model. It originally came with leopard os x 10.5 but I bought it second hand so it was updated to lion os and I don't have an original CD. "Block" logo indicated that there was no OS I guess, because mac tried to boot from an empty HDD, so I changed the boot to "Recovery HD" . The main problem is that I can't get that mac to install a new mac os lion.. I don't have a CD of it (CD drive of mac doesn't work) and when I try to reinstall it via mac itself it asks me appstore id and then I get error "This item is temporaraily unavailable". If I try to do it via usb bootable (mac os x installer in usb stick) it gives me error "Resource busy" .. So is it possible to fix it without taking it to mac professionals?? [/QUOTE]
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