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Internet Recovery of Macbook Air Fails
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<blockquote data-quote="harryb2448" data-source="post: 1628889" data-attributes="member: 42497"><p>When you are talking about Internet Recovery, what operating system are you attempting to put on the MBA? Do you, or the owner, have an Apple ID in order to access the App Store? What you are describing is typical of no operating system.</p><p></p><p>If your friend purchased it new, they may have the OS X.7 Lion install thumb drive. Lion on a DVD can be purchased from Apple Store and used with Apple's external opitical drive, or try any external drive and see if it will boot. Lion was also sold on a USB thumb drive. If you have another Mac make a thumb drive from the DVD if necessary. You say you have run Apple Hardware Test from what source?</p><p></p><p>When the DVD/thumb drive boots by holding down 'C' on restart and after the chime, leave Installer, go to Utilities and erase the drive, format Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Ensure under Partition > Options GUID is selected.</p><p></p><p></p><p><a href="http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion" target="_blank">http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="harryb2448, post: 1628889, member: 42497"] When you are talking about Internet Recovery, what operating system are you attempting to put on the MBA? Do you, or the owner, have an Apple ID in order to access the App Store? What you are describing is typical of no operating system. If your friend purchased it new, they may have the OS X.7 Lion install thumb drive. Lion on a DVD can be purchased from Apple Store and used with Apple's external opitical drive, or try any external drive and see if it will boot. Lion was also sold on a USB thumb drive. If you have another Mac make a thumb drive from the DVD if necessary. You say you have run Apple Hardware Test from what source? When the DVD/thumb drive boots by holding down 'C' on restart and after the chime, leave Installer, go to Utilities and erase the drive, format Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Ensure under Partition > Options GUID is selected. [url]http://store.apple.com/us/product/D6106Z/A/os-x-lion[/url] [/QUOTE]
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