problems resetting OS X Leopard

Hello,

Thank you for all of that wonderful information is definitely 100% helpful. I do have one subsequent question. The download link that you sent me can nappy downloaded by a Windows machine? As you saw in my original description I do not have Internet in my apartment because of financial issues I would have to go to a Barnes & Noble or a library to use a plain old Wi-Fi and that would mean I’d have to be there for a long while to get that downloaded and I would have to take the MacBook with me, which would not be a problem it’s an inconvenience I have to deal with from time to time but I do have a relative that has a corporate Wi-Fi they could use which would be even faster than the library or Barnes & Noble and he does have the ability to burn the software to disk or to a flash drive. I am praying your answer will be yes it can be downloaded to a plain old flash drive through a Windows machine.

Once again thanks for the help I look forward to your reply.

I think I mentioned in my original posting that I am 100% broke and being supported by my brother while simultaneously working on getting onto Foodstamps and General Assistance and Disability, hence the "no internet in my apt" so $20 for a disk for an ancient MacBook I am only using to learn from is def not in the budget. That reason is why I was asking if I need to use the MacBook to download the OS X Leopard or if I can use my Windows 10 Laptop so I know which machine to pack to go to either the library or my local Barnes & Noble to use their wifi. The reason I was asking the question about which machine I can use to DL is because I don't want to do a DL using a Win10 laptop only to discover when I get home that when I burn the OS to disc using my Win10 that it was not usable on the MB because it processed through a W10 machine.

Additionally the DL link I was provided with is that a link to also have to purchase the OS X Leopard but just through downloading it rather than getting a disc sent to me?

Thank you.

Wonder Woman

This is a MacBook with a label on the box that refers to the date of 2009 and with me having to go to my brother for every single penny for every bill there’s really no way for me to even justify squeaking out $20 for a desk just so I can knock the tires on a 10-year-old machine. OK this is me venting some frustration here… I wish there was a pirate day for Torrance for Mac.... I have done wonderful over God knows how many years with Torrents for so many wonderful products which has saved me so much money enabling me to continue learning. I truly wish I knew somebody that had a MacBook that might be able to give me a disk to try to copy for this machine.

You were right about the not being free angle I reread what the person had said that provided me with what I thought was a download link to get the software from Apple and I miss read it. It was some sort of a link that I would be able to use after updating the current OS on the machine to get me the ability to have the App Store on it.

This is so frustrating. I am trying to help myself in many ways and invariably I keep hitting dead ends and roadblocks every which way I turn. On my own personal laptop which is a Windows 10 machine also approximately nine years old but working like a charm and a champ I have it all the way Boudet up to 16 gigs of RAM and I have two hard drives installed in it what is a 500 gig hard drive with only windows 10 and programs on that drive and the other drive is solely devoted to my data which is linked up to a Google cloud account to protect my data should my laptop finally decide to go to the happy hunting ground which like any machine or any human being is in evitable. My plans tentatively with that machine is to build a virtual machine on it and install windows server 2012 or 2016 depending on which version I can get my hands on and in the windows universe I have a lot of options for the Mac universe I have zero options. My brother in addition to getting this unit was also given an ancient Dell laptop which has the same problem I can’t restore it there’s no restore program on that one either. I have a cousin that has a computer company and he also gave me another machine because I didn’t want to necessarily mess with my only personal laptop for the server angle so I can keep learning and that machine is on windows vista or seven I think and I tried to upgrade it to 10 and The windows 10 update analyzer says the machine can’t be upgraded to 10 because the hardware isn’t ready. The Dell machine that my brother gave me in addition to this Mac has vista on it and I believe it is vista business because I think that this machine came from the owner of the business that my brother works for and it was his daughters I believe so I believe it has this the business or what you would call enterprise and my cousin was able to get me a vista enterprise disc. Even if that machine isn’t based on vista enterprise out in the windows universe there’s 1 billion ways to do anything and no one will care doubly so because that machine is ancient also because it is vista it is so obsolete that I don’t think Bill Gates Wood bat an eyelash about it.

Let me pose a question from a different creative outside of the box thinking standpoint. I’m going to look at the machine again before the weekend and I will get an exact version number on what is on the machine 0S wise. I will also post the exact model that the machine is and what the specs are so I can know how for updated I can get the machine. Is there any possibility of me updating the machine and along the way it will wind up updating and creating a recovery partition or creating a recovery program that I can use to burn a disc with the OS recovery so that I can go ahead and then recover the machine wiping out everything that’s on there and making it pristine without anyone else’s documents or customizations?