clean install

I have a Late-2005 G4 Mac Mini running Leopard which originally shipped with Tiger. I can't find the original install discs anywhere. What is the best/easiest way to perform a clean install of it's original OS similar to Internet Recovery? Ik internet recovery doesn't exist for it. Is there a...

Hi. Simply explained: Had to do a clean install of my iPhone (not restoring from backup). I have logged in with the same Apple ID, but non of the previous messages are shows in iMessage. They are available on both my Mac and iPad, and all devices are synced to iCloud. I thoughy they should be...

An old MacBook Pro that I am trying to repair had White Screen upon startup symptoms. (No Apple Logo) Possibly a beep or two. I replaced the internal SSD with a new SSD. Formatted it before hand on another Mac. Created a bootable el cap USB installer. When selecting COMMAND R at startup of...

Hey Gang, So I haven't had a Mac for well over a decade and a half now. I'll be getting my new M2 Air shortly (though sadly its going under the tree before I can get to it). Are there any software products I should be considering with it? Maintenance software (I see a lot of YouTubers have...

For some reason the battery on my computer is draining heavily during sleep for some reason. I already tried reinstalling Big Sur but the battery is still draining. I even got a new battery and it’s still draining. Can anybody help me with this? Running Big Sur latest version clean installed...

hi, -my 2009 iMac stopped working. Beachballl Only. - i could secure my data through Windows Safe Mode (only thing that worked) - Put in a new 1tb SSD, as i thought maybe the HDD is broken. (HFS journaled GUID) - bootable Yosemite and El Capitan USB Stick clean install (erased and Formated...

I want to do a clean install of Monterey from Big Sur but I also want to migrate some data rather than starting from scratch. The data that I want to migrate are: Safari history. iMessages. Music (especially play count for tracks). That's all. Everything else can start from scratch.

How do I completely wipe everything on a MacBook Air M1 including the recovery drive? Family member bought a MBA from work because it was discounted but it has an IT account on it for remote access which they would like to remove for privacy reasons. When I follow this guide by Apple and...

Hi all, I have a MacBook pro 13 mid-2014 A1502, on which I have been running Windows for years (I can't even remember what macOS I had on there). The thing is, I recently replaced my 256gb ssd with a 1tb ssd card. I received a bootable Catalina Macos USB with it, which I have been trying to...

Updated from iOS 14.5 yesterday to iOS 14.5.1 on my iPhone 11. After the update finished, I was playing CODM and noticed the frame rates were horrible. I checked my settings to make that it was set to the max frame rate, which it was. I then ran a geekbench test, and the scores I got were...

Hello, I am currently on Big Sur. I'm having update issues that are making me pretty pissed off. I can only update my MacBook in Safe Mode. : mad: I was advised to reinstall my OS X. But there you go, my disk is not found. It's so mysterious. Encrypted APFS disk. OS X 10.11 and currently I'm on...

Hi I have a MacBook Pro A1278 that was running on a HDD hard drive and was wery slow, I decided to replace its hard drive with a SSD drive. Then I should install clean macOS, after booting up with a flash usb drive and afew progress I encounter this error! Please help me, I examined overs and...

Does anyone else have severe low quality videos/Live Photo when sending with iMessage? The video on my iPhone X is crystal clear but when ever I send it, it gets obliterated to super low quality. This occurred throughout iOS 14 beta and persists in the final. I did a factory reset, set up as...

Hello all readers, I am new here to MacRumours forum. I have been a faithfull mac-user for years. I am posting this thread here, in hope to find a solution to a persisting problem i can't seem to get rid of. I have been with a screen "problem" on my new Macbook pro 2019 (catlina) and on my...

Over the years I've installed so much crapware on my computer that it just felt sluggish and contaminated to me, and I finally got up the nerve to do a clean install to start over again more 'minimalistically'. I've done clean installs many times in the past, but never on MacOS Catalina. After...

I have a mid 2012 MacBook pro and I want to do a clean install. I have read that high sierra is best for the older hardware but will it be a security risk? I don't know if its Catalina but my mac is running really slow. Also I want to setup dual boot with linux. Do I partition the hard drive...

I recently put a 2nd drive in my 2011 iMac. I had been running OSX on the single HDD. But now with a faster SDD, I downloaded the High Sierra installer to the HDD and ran it specifying to install to the SSD. When the computer restarted, I held down the Option key and specified to start from the...

Hello - Sorry in advance if this has been posted/answered in the past. I searched and could not find anything. Anyway, I'd like to totally Erase All Content and Settings on my iPhone XS Max and start fresh again. It's been a while since I did this and now that I have an Apple Watch paired I have...

I have never done a clean install since 2008. Every time a new OS came out, I would either migrate or do a TimeMachine restore. I am not sure if it is the mechanical hard drive slowing things down in 2019 (have a 2014 iMac, 24GB ram with the fusion drive), but I want to do a clean install. I...

Hey, all. Have reinvested in a 2019 4K 21.5" iMac. My late-2012 workhorse has 30+k hours on it, still performs its duties, but has been spending far too much time on the beach. (You know, with the spinning ball...) Unbelievably slow, taking forever to execute some pretty basic stuff. Hence the...