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04-29-2010, 10:46 PM
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#1 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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| formatting an imac?
a buddy of mine bought an imac off craigslit, it's a core 2 duo 1.8 with 512 ram, 18" screen not sure of the model
right now the original user still has all his stuff on it and when you try to login to administrators account it requires a login and a password and he did not provide any discs
is there any way to do a format/recovery without buying OS discs? the version is OS X 104.11
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04-29-2010, 11:20 PM
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#2 | | The "You'd Know" Moderator
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Fastest way: call the seller up?
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04-29-2010, 11:35 PM
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#3 | | Resident Bullshitter
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just download a copy of snow leopard and use it to reinstall
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04-29-2010, 11:36 PM
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#4 | | Media Officer / MOD
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there's no way to format with out discs
best thing you can do is head to apple or bb or fs get osx 10.6 for 40 bucks put it in the drive press and hold "c" while powering on the computer and it'll boot from the disc.
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04-30-2010, 12:55 PM
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#5 | | Got MOD?
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To reset your OS X password without an OS X CD you need to enter terminal and create a new admin account:
1. Reboot
2. Hold apple + s down after you hear the chime.
3. When you get text prompt enter in these terminal commands to create a brand new admin account (hitting return after each line):
* mount -uw /
* rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone
* shutdown -h now
4. After rebooting you should have a brand new admin account. When you login as the new admin you can simply delete the old one and you’re good to go again!
Bypassing an OSX password is too easy. So many ways to do it.
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04-30-2010, 03:26 PM
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#6 | | Diagonally parked in a parallel universe
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The above will work but honestly just run out and pickup a legit Snow Leopard DVD for $29.99...
Oh yeah grab some ram while you are at it, 2gb minimum, 512mb is for wussies! Posted via RS Mobile | |
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04-30-2010, 07:25 PM
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#7 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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Originally Posted by skholla  The above will work but honestly just run out and pickup a legit Snow Leopard DVD for $29.99...
Oh yeah grab some ram while you are at it, 2gb minimum, 512mb is for wussies! Posted via RS Mobile | yea, i told him if anything he needs to upgrade the ram, super low for the price he paid compared to the same computer on ebay
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05-02-2010, 04:36 PM
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#8 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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You can also remove the password very easily using basically any OS X disc (download using whatever your favourite torrent site), but a clean format is the best way to go.
I agree, get Snow Leopard for the ~$30 ... Well worth it over Tiger ...
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05-02-2010, 08:23 PM
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#9 | | Got MOD?
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I don't even have a mac anymore yet I still have an OSX Snow disc. lol
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05-03-2010, 10:21 PM
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#10 | | Bieksa eats bears for breakfast...
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time to sell it...
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05-04-2010, 07:59 AM
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#11 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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I hated every minute of using that mac but it's unbelivable how easy that was to reset the admin Posted via RS Mobile | |
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05-05-2010, 05:48 PM
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#12 | | Bieksa eats bears for breakfast...
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its also unbelievably easy to do other things too on the Mac.
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Trinity: "DUDE WTF ARE YOU DOING?! ARE YOU INSANE?!?!?!?
Your balls are sensitive things!! They shouldn't be played around with, at least not like that, and you should NOT BE DIPPING THEM IN AFTERSHAVE! Oh my god, I feel sorry for your balls!"
ODC: "Wrong, a roots type blower will produce max boost from 0rpm to redline."
Iceman_19: "A roots makes zero boost at zero rpm, lol"
Ulic Qel-Droma: "haha go google image big black dick. or black cock. i forgot which term i used. it's one of the many." | |
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