[bignick73]

Hi, My Macbook Pro recently went a bit belly up on me, I decided to restore it to new using the install discs. In my haste I re partitioned the drive and wiped everything off it, then realised I lost the restore discs, but luckily I have an imac too, so I thought not to worry, I'll just the discs that came with that.....

Now I thought job done, popped in the restore disc no problem, boots from the cd drive, but when I select install I get the following message "ALERT, The software cannot be installed on this computer". Now I'm guessing that means the discs that came with my imac are locked to that? Am I right? If so is there a way round this (I really don't want to have buy another set of discs), or is this something more sinister?

Hope someone out there can help!
Cheers
Nick

[Sherman Homan]

You are right with your guess, nothing sinister, just that the System Install disks that come OEM with a Mac are designed to work on that Mac series and none other. Especially if your iMac is a PPC chip! The Intel and PPC installation disks are muy different. You really have two choices: find the original disks(!) or buy 'em.

[JKT]

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