11-20-2015, 10:29 PM
You should be able to boot in Target mode - hold T at Startup sound. Connect it by FW to another Mac. At that point you can erase the donated drive and install any OS equal to or newer that the one it came with.
Kate wrote:
My local thrift shop got a Mac donated, but there is a password to get into the machine. Is there a way that I can put a new operating system on this machine and bypass the password? Any assistance appreciated, they could really use a working machine.
Kate