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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1839761" data-attributes="member: 396914">Nope, you have the full version, so Apple does provide it. And had you upgraded to HS instead of wiping out the drive, you would have had no problems with DiskmakerX. But by wiping out the drive, leaving it unbootable, you put yourself in the position of having to find a way to boot it from something external to do the installation. And that means DiskmakerX or something similar. All that said, if you used DiskmakerX to create a bootable drive, what you do now is attach that to the Mac, hold down option and boot it while holding down Option. (EDIT: Keep holding option until you see options on the screen.) Eventually you should see on the screen all bootable drives, which in your case would be the one USB drive. Select that one to boot, then run the installation from there, installing to the Internal drive. From your screenshots, you are not doing that boot step, but trying to run the initiation program from some other machine. That icon and name is for the drive, and needs to be the boot drive, not mounted on any other system.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1839761, member: 396914"] Nope, you have the full version, so Apple does provide it. And had you upgraded to HS instead of wiping out the drive, you would have had no problems with DiskmakerX. But by wiping out the drive, leaving it unbootable, you put yourself in the position of having to find a way to boot it from something external to do the installation. And that means DiskmakerX or something similar. All that said, if you used DiskmakerX to create a bootable drive, what you do now is attach that to the Mac, hold down option and boot it while holding down Option. (EDIT: Keep holding option until you see options on the screen.) Eventually you should see on the screen all bootable drives, which in your case would be the one USB drive. Select that one to boot, then run the installation from there, installing to the Internal drive. From your screenshots, you are not doing that boot step, but trying to run the initiation program from some other machine. That icon and name is for the drive, and needs to be the boot drive, not mounted on any other system. [/QUOTE]

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