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    Factory Reset Gone Wrong?

    I recently purchased an old Mid 2009 MacBook Pro from a friend, This is my first MacBook and Apple related device in general. He told me I would need to factory reset it so I looked up how to do so, I proceeded to erase the disk with Disk utility, but after doing that I cannot reinstall the OS X...
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    Reinstalling Old Mac Pro. Please help!

    Hi. I had a trouble partitioning my hdd and ended up deleting my hdd with the Operating System, which is OS X El Capitan. unfortunately/fortunately El capitan has an OS install program saved on the HDD, but requires an Internet connection to valid the IMEI. But apparently My Mac Pro from 2008...