OS installation repair.
So a photog that I tech for gave me his laptop and asked me why he wasn’t able to play DVD’s on his 2008 17″ MBP.
“Hm?” I replied
(Apparently the person who set up the machine left out unessential things like idvd to trim down the OS. )
Then after light temple scratching and medium to heavy google searching I realized that. No you can’t fix it without re-installing the OS and having to reformat and have to re-instal all your programs.
Then after less temple scratching and medium to heavy google searching this was discovered. So I thought i’d share it:
Just an interesting bit of info:
Since DVD player was trashed on the laptop we thought it was necessary to reinstall the entire system, However, I found a program which you might be interest in calledPacifist
It allows you to download the program, and run it in conjunction with your system install discs.
It then will individually pull all the elements of that install disc and you can pick what you want from it and extract single components and then install that single component. In this case it showed a all the contents of the 2 discs and one of those components was the program DVD player, you click that one program, click install it prompts you to reinsert the disc and that single program is installed. Cool program, shareware. DVD player is back and working….neat solution.
