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New disks (Tiger install) from Apple Care and I cannot use them
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<blockquote data-quote="chscag" data-source="post: 1652542" data-attributes="member: 46727"><p>I don't know who told you that at Apple, but it's not true. A retail version of Snow Leopard 10.6.X will install OK. Recovery partitions did not exist when Snow Leopard was first deployed. Lion was the first version of OS X to have a recovery partition.</p><p></p><p>I suspect they may have sent you the wrong CDs of Tiger. OS X install disks are model specific. According to Mactracker your model iMac originally came with either 10.4.7 or 10.4.8 installed. I would not bother with Tiger and instead install Snow Leopard. As I stated above, Snow Leopard does not need a recovery partition. And, you really probably don't want to run anything later than Snow Leopard on that machine anyway.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chscag, post: 1652542, member: 46727"] I don't know who told you that at Apple, but it's not true. A retail version of Snow Leopard 10.6.X will install OK. Recovery partitions did not exist when Snow Leopard was first deployed. Lion was the first version of OS X to have a recovery partition. I suspect they may have sent you the wrong CDs of Tiger. OS X install disks are model specific. According to Mactracker your model iMac originally came with either 10.4.7 or 10.4.8 installed. I would not bother with Tiger and instead install Snow Leopard. As I stated above, Snow Leopard does not need a recovery partition. And, you really probably don't want to run anything later than Snow Leopard on that machine anyway. [/QUOTE]
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