Imac OS X

rockchick113

I have a imac 2009 and I'm looking to factory restore, all the setting don't work on a home network,due to it being from a school network, I have done the windows 7 side ( boot camp ) now I'm wanting to sort out the mac side,I don't have any discs, I'm looking for someone to point me in the right direction on which OS X discs to get. The info I can get from the mac is 9.1 1.0 intel core duo 2ghz 2 GB
If someone can give me any links to the right discs to get.
Cheers.

macman

It will be running either Leopard (OS 10.5) or Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) if a 2009 product.

rockchick113

macman wrote: »

It will be running either Leopard (OS 10.5) or Snow Leopard (OS 10.6) if a 2009 product.

It running leopard, but I don't know which discs or disc to buy,
I've seen 2 discs being sold on ebay also 1 disc.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Apple-Mac-OS-X-10-5-Leopard-Install-DVD-with-Box-/271413960601?pt=UK_Computing_Software_Software_SR&hash=item3f31885f99

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-Apple-Mac-OS-X-10-5-4-Leopard-Install-Discs-/251469247792?pt=UK_Computing_Software_Software_SR&hash=item3a8cbc3530

securityguy

"It running leopard"

But will run Mavericks, successfully, if you sling 4GB of RAM in it which will cost buttons.

macman

It'll run both Leopard and Snow Leopard.

rockchick113

macman wrote: »

It'll run both Leopard and Snow Leopard.

But which discs do I get, I want to make sure they the right ones.

almillar

If you can get to an Apple Store, and you have an iTunes account, you may be able to get them to download a copy for you, and you can put it onto an 8GB or bigger USB stick. Call your local store to see how they would arrange this...
Otherwise you could buy a Snow Leopard disc (RETAIL, not what you get with a Mac) from eBay or similar but this would be more expensive.

Stratus

From the Apple Store

http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard

But a fresh install may play havoc with all your bootcamp work to date.

colin79666

As above get Snow Leopard from the online store to get the physical disk.
Once that is installed then go into the App Store and get Mavericks which is a free upgrade and should run fine on a 2009 machine provided it has at least 2GB ram.
Best to do a fresh install of Snow Leopard (use disk utility to wipe the drive clean). Upgrade to Mavericks and then put Bootcamp and Windows 7 on.

Handsome90

Apple also sell old operating systems either in discs or in a USB stick. http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard

If Mavericks is compatible with your mac, then download that (no need to waste money buying previous OS). And install that into a USB stick and do a fresh reinstall of Mavericks. http://arstechnica.com/apple/2013/10/how-to-make-your-own-bootable-os-x-10-9-mavericks-usb-install-drive/

macman

saxonman wrote: »

But which discs do I get, I want to make sure they the right ones.

Disks described as Mac OS 10.5 or 10.6...(if those are the versions you decide to go for).