reinstall

Hi! I'm preparing an iMac late 2013 for sale and want to make sure I've deleted everything. I'm not very familiar with Mac at all. This iMac has been used with an appleID and was populated with iCloud files (and probably some local ones too?). I followed this guide from Apple on how to...

I appologize for my computer literacy in advance. I have two older models of Macbook, I can't provide their exact models and years cause i am locked out, but it is a black macbook 2008ish and a macbook pro 2012ish. I was in the process of facotory reseting the computers as I hope to sell them...

Hi all! I will be reinstalling the system on my MacBook Air M1, and I would like to know which version of macOS is better to install - Big Sur, Monterey, or Ventura? For me, the main thing is battery life, as well as speed. I'm not worried about new features availabale in Monterey and Ventura...

Hi, I am trying to reinstall MacOS on a MacBook Air 13" (2017) (A1466). Without success. Tried several times, from the startup boot menu (cmd key + r) I have no choice but choose an Internet wifi connexion at startup. Can't boot on USB support. So, by choosing a wifi Internet connexion, it...

I would like to wipe the OS on my AW 6 and reinstall it. I have a problem with Siri that would not go away after erasing, unpair/repair. I see there is now the option to recover the watch here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204776 But this only works if the watch prompted the Phone/Watch...

I have an older Macbook which can run El Capitan, but the drive is wiped, I have no installation discs, and this model cannot download or recover over the Internet like newer models. I have downloaded the El Capitan installer DMG from support.apple.com but cannot get further than this. How can...

Hello, I have a 2013 macbook pro 15" retina (running Catalina) with an internal SSD which last year failed in some way/messed up, after it froze, I powered it off and then upon restarting couldnt boot onto/select the Mac OS drive. Its worth noting the hard drive was partitioned so it had...

On the latest PB, but having major issues with Spotlight, even after trying a variety of "fixes" (adding drive to privacy then re-adding, sudo mdutil -E /, safe mode, disk utility first aid, restarting, deleting index with Cocktail and Onyx, reindex command from spotlight, etc) I've found...

We've been given a second hand 2007 iMac but the hard drive was wiped. Every time we attempt to re-install Mac OS we get an error when entering our iCloud login saying "this item is temporarily unavailable" We're aware that this is because we don't have the original iCloud login for the iMac...

I have a MacBook Air m1 that arrived with an uneven underside (second m1 with this issue this month) which makes it "wobble" on a flat surface. I am trying to erase and reinstall Mac OS before returning it but all trials fail. In the past with 11.1 my go to solution was to boot from a USB...

I recently opened up my brand new Macbook Air, the 2020 version with the M1 chip. All was good and well, until I forgot my password. Having not been able to properly set up an Apple ID account, I was left to reinstall macOS Big Sur on the thing. After attempting to do so, I ran into the...

Hi, I have a flashed (4,1 to 5,1) Mac Pro that was running Mojave with no problems until....I decided to give it to a friend and erased the HD and seem to have erased the OS too!! I have tried to make a bootable installer on a USB stick (which seemed to go fine) except when I hold down the...

In an effort to reorganize my data, I want to make use of partition / volume / container. Are there any best practices in this regard? I have Mojave and use APFS encrypted. I am asking this because I want to keep OS separate from data and should have ability to reformat / reinstall OS without...

I wanted to restore my Mac. The guide I found said to go to recovery mode by holding command + r upon restarting, and in there to go to disc utility and then delete the drive. I did this, and then I closed the disk utility in order to select the option to restore macOS. However, when selecting...

Background of my question: 1. I have a macmini 2012. I ran Command + R and clicked Disk Utility. I picked "Macintosh HD" , clicked "First Aid", nothing showed to fix. Then I clicked "Unmount" by mistake; 2. Now only OS X Base System shows in Disk Utility (as attached photo); 3. Now I...

I am trying to reinstall OS X on a 2009 erased iMac. When trying to input the apple ID and password to reinstall, I get the "try again later" message since that apple ID was not the original one to install the software. I have tried downloading software (Sierra since El Capitan was not available...

Hi, I'm lost, I wanted to reset my MacBook Pro retina back to factory reset. However, when I erased the startup disk I did not back up anything because I did not have anything valuble to save. Now, when I try to reinstall macOS Sierra I am unable to select the "OS X Base System" HD. It's says...

hello! please anyone can help me. I have the same problem! recovery HD its locked and I can't reinstall os. I try all the commands that you guys give. nothing work please help!! If it helps I have all my passwords!

I understand that you can wipe a computer and then install a fresh operating system and restore a backup. I was wondering however, can you reinstall OS X or macOS on top of existing data without removing it?

I just reinstalled my OS for the first time in several years. Looking at my boot drive, I see no "old system folder" or any other such detritus anywhere on the drive and this represents a big improvement. Did the installer really get smart enough to, all by itself, make a fresh system that would...