I really don't personally believe apple is going to release any substantial upgrade to the macbook/pro. There's just not much they can do without moving chips, which have recently been updated.
Personally I don't see a need to wait as...
I realize it's likely well beyond the need at this point, but for the sake of someone else searching for this answer.
you don't need the install disk at all.
Boot into single user mode holding down apple + s at boot.
Run a disk check...
as mentioned try diskwarrior, if that fails, try drive genius, if that fails, attempt to recover data with Data Rescue II - a product with which i have had great success at work.
you would want to use GHOST and sysprep to accomplish this task. If you are not a 'computer person' sysprep is likely out of your grasp, tbh. You can try to install using the acer discs, however it is a license violation and will also...
You can also boot into open firmware by holding down
aption + apple + o + f from a COLD start. Once you are there at the command line type in reset-all and press return. Aside from the SMC reset you can take out the battery and dc the...
well the good thing about the macbook over the pro, is that the hard drive is REALLY easy to change.. so you can easily upgrade that as your needs and budget grow@!
should be quite interesting indeed. Compelling even I just returned from a month vacation with my macbook pro as my only machine, it worked well for all the compressing and payback stuff i did whilst away... running vista is the icing...
