mistersupernova
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Hi all, I did something similar to this thread but a little different, so I would like some clarification please.
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unlike this old thread, I can see the recovery partition below my Mac HDD, but I can't figure out how to use it.
This is what I have done and where I am.
I will preface this by saying that I am retiring here in NZ next month, so I am downsizing and moving into a camper, so I have sold off my gaming pc and decided to use this old iMac as a work station, I really like it a lot, won't do much other than internet and YouTube and a couple of steam games but that's ok
so....
I was given an old iMac, el captain, 10.11. So, steam worked up until a few days ago and now just crashes every time I try it. I am pretty good with windows. So I kinda thought I might apply some of that logic here.....wrong! I wanted to do a clean installation of 10.11. So I reboot and use command R. I tried to use the reinstallation 10.11, and I get to the point where it says Apple will verify your install.etc.login., I do that, and I get, 403 error, forbidden. So I went to the disk helper, or whatever it is called, at the bottom of the options. You can choose repair or mount or unmount....etc.I can see my Mac had. I can see the OSX 10.11 installation image, but I can't do anything with it. So I thought fu*k it I wanted a clean install, so I erased my Mac 500g had and I kind of thought after reboot it would ask me to install from local image, wrong... So now I have a Mac that won't boot. Am I going to have to use an external USB Drive to get this going again? I can take some photos of what I can see at Command-R if that help.
Ps, I downloaded an image of El Capitan and tried to install from it, but it told me, no, because I already had a local image. Any help would be greatly appreciated, .
Thread
unlike this old thread, I can see the recovery partition below my Mac HDD, but I can't figure out how to use it.
This is what I have done and where I am.
I will preface this by saying that I am retiring here in NZ next month, so I am downsizing and moving into a camper, so I have sold off my gaming pc and decided to use this old iMac as a work station, I really like it a lot, won't do much other than internet and YouTube and a couple of steam games but that's ok
so....
I was given an old iMac, el captain, 10.11. So, steam worked up until a few days ago and now just crashes every time I try it. I am pretty good with windows. So I kinda thought I might apply some of that logic here.....wrong! I wanted to do a clean installation of 10.11. So I reboot and use command R. I tried to use the reinstallation 10.11, and I get to the point where it says Apple will verify your install.etc.login., I do that, and I get, 403 error, forbidden. So I went to the disk helper, or whatever it is called, at the bottom of the options. You can choose repair or mount or unmount....etc.I can see my Mac had. I can see the OSX 10.11 installation image, but I can't do anything with it. So I thought fu*k it I wanted a clean install, so I erased my Mac 500g had and I kind of thought after reboot it would ask me to install from local image, wrong... So now I have a Mac that won't boot. Am I going to have to use an external USB Drive to get this going again? I can take some photos of what I can see at Command-R if that help.
Ps, I downloaded an image of El Capitan and tried to install from it, but it told me, no, because I already had a local image. Any help would be greatly appreciated, .