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August 28th, 2008, 05:00 PM
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| no installation discs... I have purchased a second hand eMac version 10.2.8 (old I know) but im having major problems as i have no installation discs thus i cannot change the administrator password... please can someone help, it'd be gratefully appreciated, thankyou  |
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#2
August 28th, 2008, 05:10 PM
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#3
August 28th, 2008, 05:14 PM
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| The How To Reset (above) is for Leopard only. You'll need to purchase retail OS X install CDs/DVD. Cheers, Tom  |
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#4
August 28th, 2008, 06:06 PM
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| I'd try to find retail disks for Mac OS X 10.3.x or 10.4.x.
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#5
August 28th, 2008, 08:29 PM
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| 1. Shut down the computer if it is on. 2. Press the power button to start the computer. 3. Immediately press and hold the Command (Apple) and the S keys until you see white text appear. At the prompt, type fsck -yf and press the return key. Type mount -uw / and press the return key. Type rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone and press return. Type reboot When the computer restarts, it should act as if you had just installed OS X for the first time - it will prompt you for information to set up an administrator level account.
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#6
August 28th, 2008, 11:20 PM
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| Make sure you back up any important files first ... |
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#7
August 29th, 2008, 11:02 AM
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| I guess since he can't login, he probably won't be able to backup first.
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