Hi. I purchased Macbook Air 11 inch 2011 just few days ago.
It was sold as faulty but working.
Here is seller's statement:
There is one issue with the machine, it has a funny 5 mins when installing things, also when i tried to update the operating system. I since took this to Apple and they managed to update all my software and upgrade the OS to 10.9.1. I took it into apple not long ago and it says it passed their tests, on all hardware aspects. Someone mentioned about a ‘Kernel Panic’ I had received these on occasion but not a regular thing, something i was told would be sorted with the OS update. I had since taken the computer to Apple, they managed to update the machine to OS X 10.9.1.
It worked fine when I first powered it on but I decided to wipe the drive and install fresh copy of Mac OS because I didn't want to have preinstalled apps by the previous owner.
How stupid was I !!!!
I had few macs before but never seen anything like it.
There is no recovery drive but I can access it from USB drive created by Apple Recovery Drive Assistant.
I can erase and partition ssd but thats about it.
I didn't do any back up so the only option is to download new OS but it tried to download it many times, each time it stops, reboots and goes back to recovery mode.
Sometimes displays OS X Mavericks failed to download. Use the purchase page to try again. Bit difficult to access purchase page without OS!
Then I tried to create bootable USBs with Mountain Lion and Mavericks but every installation fails. Then I found out that MbAIr uses different OS so I downloaded Slow Leopard for Macbook Air but installation fails as well.
I have an iMac so I did a system back up of about 50GB to transfer it to Macbook Air but when I tried it says my 128GB disk is not big enough.
I tried to download new system from internet to external USB drive instead of Macbook Air's ssd to exclude ssd malfunction but It won't download it as before.
I am running out of ideas. I run disk utility in recovery mode and repair disk but it shows no errors at all.
I will be trying to use my iMac to install any OS to USB drive and run it from USB drive to create back up that will take less than 50GB hopefully. Also wanted to try do install windows as a main os just to try it, but I really want Mac OS.
Can someone help me please or has anyone got any idea how to fix it please.
Thank you so much in advance.
It was sold as faulty but working.
Here is seller's statement:
There is one issue with the machine, it has a funny 5 mins when installing things, also when i tried to update the operating system. I since took this to Apple and they managed to update all my software and upgrade the OS to 10.9.1. I took it into apple not long ago and it says it passed their tests, on all hardware aspects. Someone mentioned about a ‘Kernel Panic’ I had received these on occasion but not a regular thing, something i was told would be sorted with the OS update. I had since taken the computer to Apple, they managed to update the machine to OS X 10.9.1.
It worked fine when I first powered it on but I decided to wipe the drive and install fresh copy of Mac OS because I didn't want to have preinstalled apps by the previous owner.
How stupid was I !!!!
I had few macs before but never seen anything like it.
There is no recovery drive but I can access it from USB drive created by Apple Recovery Drive Assistant.
I can erase and partition ssd but thats about it.
I didn't do any back up so the only option is to download new OS but it tried to download it many times, each time it stops, reboots and goes back to recovery mode.
Sometimes displays OS X Mavericks failed to download. Use the purchase page to try again. Bit difficult to access purchase page without OS!
Then I tried to create bootable USBs with Mountain Lion and Mavericks but every installation fails. Then I found out that MbAIr uses different OS so I downloaded Slow Leopard for Macbook Air but installation fails as well.
I have an iMac so I did a system back up of about 50GB to transfer it to Macbook Air but when I tried it says my 128GB disk is not big enough.
I tried to download new system from internet to external USB drive instead of Macbook Air's ssd to exclude ssd malfunction but It won't download it as before.
I am running out of ideas. I run disk utility in recovery mode and repair disk but it shows no errors at all.
I will be trying to use my iMac to install any OS to USB drive and run it from USB drive to create back up that will take less than 50GB hopefully. Also wanted to try do install windows as a main os just to try it, but I really want Mac OS.
Can someone help me please or has anyone got any idea how to fix it please.
Thank you so much in advance.