If you have a spare hard drive lying around, you could use the existing recovery partition to install the OS on to that, even if just temporarily. If you have a friend with a Mac, he could download ...
60847: Apple Software Restore: How to Perform a Multiple Disc Restoration describes how to use the multiple Restore discs (that apparently come with new Macs that have OS X preinstalled) to do a ...
Defragmentation and disk optimization in Mac OS X collectively represent an issue nearly as contentious as the debate over repairing disk permissions -- one camp argues that utilties purportedly ...