Macbook ” You Cannot Install OS X on this computer.”?
February 17, 2011 by Meesansel Rahc
Filed under Mac OSX
question of beanerjoe10 : Macbook “You can not OS X on this computer .”?
I bought a used macbook. Previous owner wiped it clean. Now when I try to install windows for this message. Please help Best Answer:
response from Chris
probably a new version of OSX
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There is no version of OS X that is too new for any MacBook.
Did the previous owner have more than one Mac? He gave you the wrong restore discs. Go back to him and ask for the MacBook discs. If he doesn’t co-operate, maybe he lost the original discs and used a retail disc to wipe the drive. He doesn’t want to part with the retail disc since it can be used for any Mac that is the same age or older than the retail disc OS version. For some reason, he gave you discs for a different Mac and that won’t work. Why would he not install OS X on the empty drive before selling the MacBook? Could he have lost the discs after wiping the drive? Maybe he booted the MacBook to target disk mode (is it the old white version with Firwire?) and wiped the drive from another Mac. Then he wouldn’t need any disc at all.
Whatever the guy did, he must have known he was leaving you in the lurch. You’ll need to buy a retail OS 10.5.x disk. Let me guess: eBay purchase, so you didn’t see that the computer had no software before you paid. That’s the chance you take with eBay. He didn’t guarantee you would get OS X, only that the computer would work.
Go to the Apple store and buy a new copy of Mac OS Snow Leopard. It just came out, so it’s an upgrade no matter what you already had.
You may want to buy the Box Set to get all the other apps as well. However, Snow Leopard alone will only cost $ 29 so there’s no reason not to have the latest version either way.
The discs that he gve you probably went with the wrong computer, unless there is a hardware problem with the machine. Bring it to the Apple store and have a tech look it over to make sure you didn’t get ripped off in some way.
Mac OS discs will usually only install on the macs that already existe when the disc came out. So a 10.4 Tiger disk will not work on many Macbooks, and some Tiger discs will not work on Intel macs at all. Also, some discs, like the ones for the Mac Pro, and older Macbook Pro, are model-specific.