Select your USB thumb drive from the list on the left and click the Partition tab.

They lie!!Īfter install and reboot I had a virgin factory fresh MacBook and a happy daughter.Launch Disk Utility from the Applications:Utilities folder. Ignore the countdown messages that tell you '1 second til complete'. Once the install process starts, the whole thing took just under an hour for this MacBook Pro (2010). They did get a non apple user through the setup without any real problems. The instructions were adequate and seemed thorough.

The only way left was a bootable installation disk which I bought from Amazon. Research uncovered a number of ways of reinstalling the OS but nearly all assume you have a working Mac. The repair utility will happily wipe your HDD clean but won't download a fresh OS because Apple appears to have removed el Capitan (and probably other old versions) from their store - effectively rendering the MacBook useless. I was trying to 'factory reset' my daughter's MacBook (running el Capitan) but things went horribly wrong.

This was money very well spent, and have absolutely no reservations in recommending this option to anyone wishing to recover their system.īeware! Reset your MacBook at your peril. Installation time about 1.5 hrs including adding my iCloud profile, and updating to OS X 10.11.6. I had none of the potential issues others have reported such as date, etc., the installation went smoothly once I had used the Utilities menu to erase/reformat the HDD back to OS X Extended. Whilst the MacBook is no longer my main system, it is one I am fond of and really wanted to see it once again running the OS it was intended for. so glad I did! I had long since - and foolishly - discarded my early Mac OS X DVD's, and tried many means of downloading and creating bootable MAC OS X USB's, but all required an older Mac system as a base from which to build such media. but having read the reviews I was encouraged to give this a go. And was somewhat nervous about purchasing stated install media, given the plethora of 'bogus' options available stating they are installable. I had almost given up and resigned myself to using this as 'a Linux test system'. I had just about given up all hope of getting my aged MacBookPro (early 2008). I made a phone call and in few minutes the installation went live.Īlso its important you dont plug this usb in a WINDOWS MACHINE, as you wont be able to browse the files and you can possible damage the format of usb and make it not bootable.Ħ - After few minutes you will get to theĨ - If want to go for a fresh install Fromĩ - Select the Hard Drive and click erase The seller is very helpful and includes email/telephone/viber/whatsapp live support. Great Product, if your mac has crashed or you just want a fresh install.Īfter asking many seller, decided to buy from FigoComputers with Prime and was delivered same day.

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