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Lost_World's avatar

Help! I have lost every password for my MacBook pro.

Asked by Lost_World (1231points) September 23rd, 2008 from iPhone

And I have lost the origenal install discs so I can’t reset it that way, what should I do I want to reinstall it becouse it has been acting up but now I can’t, what should I do?

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shilolo's avatar

What do you mean by “lost”? Have you checked the keychain? Keychain FirstAid might help. Of course, if you are near an Apple Store, you can always access their (annoyingly-named) Genius Bar.

Lost_World's avatar

I looked in the keychain it’s not thair, and the ppl in my local atmac cost a fortune and in truth they don’t know very much.

Lightlyseared's avatar

@Melon they might not know much but I bet they do know where to lay their hands on a set of install discs

Lost_World's avatar

@lightlyseared Yes, but there is one other thing.. You see this is a laptop payed for my the com my dad works for, he got a new one but you know how things are in this type of thing and no one can know that I am using it… So I can’t realy take it to atmac as we know them well.

jrpowell's avatar

http://theappleblog.com/2008/06/22/reset-os-x-password-without-an-os-x-cd/

You will have a new admin account but you can still get into the old data.

wilhel1812's avatar

here
after that’s done you can change all passwords.

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