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And I typed my apple ID I have been using on my iPhone and everything has been moving smoothly until I mistakenly 'Erased' my entire 'Macintosh HD'.

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And the man re-installed Mac OS X 10.8 for me. I bought a used MacBook Air last year from another region here in Ghana. I found this while I was looking for answers myself take a gander but read the last paragraph it will help yall I don't have any type of knowledge on macs so If anyone can help me in any type of way I would greatly appreciate it. Every other computer system in my home is PC.

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I have to install the OS through internet (or if it is possible, by downloading the OS to an USB stick, and then installing through that).Īnyways, I started searching forms online to see if there was anything that I could do but all I can really find is make a bootable UBS drive but how can I do that if I only have 1 Mac and I don't know anyone else who owns a Mac. I don't know what to do, since I have tried redoing these steps on multiple occasions this day, and with two different networks(my network & apple stores wifi). Reinstall the Mountain Lion OS X through internet.Īfter trying to install the OS X Lion, and entering my apple id an error message pops up, saying:

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I bought this MacBook Air yesterday off someone and they didn't take anything they gave me the password and everything but they took nothing off so I decided to reset the whole system to its factory settings so I followed the usual steps ( from a tutorial on YouTube )Ģ.

Your Mac will now reinstall from the USB drive and when it is done you will be presented with new copy of OS X Mountain Lion.Okay I'm going make a long story short I own a MacBook Air. Select Reinstall OS X, the second option from the list. When you are done, you will be directed back to the OS X Utilities dialogue.Note: Do this with caution and make sure you have already backup all important files and data as there will be no way for recovery from this point onwards. Click the Erase button button and everything (including files, applications, settings, etc) in your Mac will be completely deleted.At the Disk Utility screen, select your Mac’s hard drive, then click Erase tab and select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) as format.You will then be taken to the OS X Utilities dialogue box.When you see the screen in the screenshot below, select Mac OS X on the right. Restart your Mac, hold down the Option key when you see the Apple logo.Now, we will attempt to remove everything from the current OS and reinstall a new copy of OS X Mountain Lion. So we’ve downloaded a new copy of Mountain Lion, copied it over to the USB drive and made it bootable. The installation may take about 10 – 20 minutes and once it is done you’ll have yourself a USB drive with a bootable Mountain Lion. Drag the formatted drive from the left menu to the Destination field, then drag "Mac OS X Install ESD" on the left menu to Source and click the Restore button. Now, we are going to create a bootable OS X Mountain Lion in the USB drive.Once the USB drive is formatted, re-select the formatted USB drive from the left menu, and click the Restore tab.Keep a backup of the files within if you still need them, then come back to this section.

Note: This will remove everything in the USB drive. Under Erase tab, select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format and click the Erase button. Select the USB drive on the left menu, Erase tab.Plug your USB drive into your Mac and launch the Disk Utility application.Double-click InstallESD.dmg to open (or mount) it on your Desktop.Navigate to Contents > SharedSupport, then look for the filename "InstallESD.dmg".Look for the file called "Install OS X Mountain Lion", Right-click and select Show Package Contents.

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Create bootable OS X Mountain LionĪfter your download is done, let’s proceed to making a bootable USB drive with your OS X Mountain Lion in it. Note: This may take up between 10 and 60 minutes, depending on the speed of your Internet connection. If you’ve previously purchased a copy of Mountain Lion, don’t worry, you will not be recharged.

Re-enter your App Store credentials if required.

Look for OS X Mountain Lion, hold down the Option key and click Download.

Launch the App Store and go to the Purchases tab.

Here’s how you can download and obtain a soft copy of Mountain Lion. The installer you downloaded from the App Store automatically deletes itself after you’ve successfully upgraded (or install) your Mac. Re-download Mountain Lion Installerįirst, grab hold of a copy of the Mountain Lion installer file. While I was doing maintenance for my OS X, using the Maintenance app, the app told me that.