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<blockquote data-quote="MacInWin" data-source="post: 1839772" data-attributes="member: 396914">Because he wiped the drive at the start of the process (see post #1), his Mac won't boot.And there is no reason to &quot;forget about&quot; HS, he has the installer. He just needs to boot from the installer drive he says he has made, instead of trying to run the installer from wherever his images come from, and let the process complete. DiskmakerX builds some hidden folders on the boot drive that don't appear when you mount the drive on a booted machine, but which work when you are booted from it. That's why I told him to boot from the USB he created and from there do the installation. I'm not sure what you mean by &quot;apple is getting closed minded on use of their older OSXs.&quot; Apple has always removed the installer for older systems when they release a new version. You could only get the older system if you had already downloaded the installer previously so that it showed up on your &quot;purchased&quot; list. Now they did away with that access, but the older versions are still able to be downloaded and installed on any system on which they will run. I suspect the removal from the purchased list was to avoid the complications of a novice user moving to APFS in Mojave or the new two volume structure in Catalina and then trying to go back. That can be done, but it's not easy because of the changes in APFS and Catalina. So they cut down on the calls to support for the problems that change can create by making it harder for novices to even try, figuring that anybody who can figure it out has enough technical chops to pull it off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MacInWin, post: 1839772, member: 396914"] Because he wiped the drive at the start of the process (see post #1), his Mac won't boot. And there is no reason to "forget about" HS, he has the installer. He just needs to boot from the installer drive he says he has made, instead of trying to run the installer from wherever his images come from, and let the process complete. DiskmakerX builds some hidden folders on the boot drive that don't appear when you mount the drive on a booted machine, but which work when you are booted from it. That's why I told him to boot from the USB he created and from there do the installation. I'm not sure what you mean by "apple is getting closed minded on use of their older OSXs." Apple has always removed the installer for older systems when they release a new version. You could only get the older system if you had already downloaded the installer previously so that it showed up on your "purchased" list. Now they did away with that access, but the older versions are still able to be downloaded and installed on any system on which they will run. I suspect the removal from the purchased list was to avoid the complications of a novice user moving to APFS in Mojave or the new two volume structure in Catalina and then trying to go back. That can be done, but it's not easy because of the changes in APFS and Catalina. So they cut down on the calls to support for the problems that change can create by making it harder for novices to even try, figuring that anybody who can figure it out has enough technical chops to pull it off. [/QUOTE]

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