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How to install OSX on MB with broken DVD drive?
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<blockquote data-quote="hogweed" data-source="post: 1403632" data-attributes="member: 87693"><p>Yeah, the Retail disk seems in pretty poor shape actually – I haven’t used it for nearly 4 years, guess it’s worse than I remembered. Well, I suppose it proves that you can, in principle, install the O/S from an external drive, which contradicts many posts on forums.</p><p></p><p>All I need now is a new disk…</p><p></p><p>I’m interested in your suggestion about putting my hard disk in another Mac, installing OSX on it, then moving it to my machine. Only trouble is, I don’t know anyone with this model. My daughter has one of the little white MacBooks though… can OSX reconfigure itself to new hardware if moved to a different machine, like Windows can?</p><p></p><p>Or won’t it matter, as I’ll just be booting from the drop-in disk, which hopefully will detect OSX on the HDD, and install successfully over it, with the appropriate drivers etc?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="hogweed, post: 1403632, member: 87693"] Yeah, the Retail disk seems in pretty poor shape actually – I haven’t used it for nearly 4 years, guess it’s worse than I remembered. Well, I suppose it proves that you can, in principle, install the O/S from an external drive, which contradicts many posts on forums. All I need now is a new disk… I’m interested in your suggestion about putting my hard disk in another Mac, installing OSX on it, then moving it to my machine. Only trouble is, I don’t know anyone with this model. My daughter has one of the little white MacBooks though… can OSX reconfigure itself to new hardware if moved to a different machine, like Windows can? Or won’t it matter, as I’ll just be booting from the drop-in disk, which hopefully will detect OSX on the HDD, and install successfully over it, with the appropriate drivers etc? [/QUOTE]
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