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<blockquote data-quote="mistersupernova" data-source="post: 1939815" data-attributes="member: 420063"><p>Hi all, I did something similar to this thread but a little different, so I would like some clarification please.</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.mac-forums.com/threads/reinstall-macos-problem-with-old-imac.377931/" target="_blank">Thread</a></p><p>unlike this old thread, I can see the recovery partition below my Mac HDD, but I can't figure out how to use it.</p><p></p><p>This is what I have done and where I am.</p><p>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</p><p>so....</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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, <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙏" title="Folded hands :pray:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f64f.png" data-shortname=":pray:" /> <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙂" title="Slightly smiling face :slight_smile:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" data-shortname=":slight_smile:" />.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mistersupernova, post: 1939815, member: 420063"] Hi all, I did something similar to this thread but a little different, so I would like some clarification please. [URL='https://www.mac-forums.com/threads/reinstall-macos-problem-with-old-imac.377931/']Thread[/URL] 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, 🙏 🙂. [/QUOTE]
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