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#Internet recovery mac os x install#

You can follow our guide to install a fresh copy of OS X if you need help. However, I had to do a complete OS X install.

#Internet recovery mac os x free#

You'll be tempted to try and run a restore from Time Machine and your certainly free to try it out to see if things will automatically start working (and if your APFS volume is intact you may be able to). You'll be happily greeted by a familiar (yet older looking) version of the repair utilities where you can restore from Time Machine, install OS X (not a typo since OS X was the default install on my 2010 Mac), or run Disk Utility (Again useless in my case since APFS was what my internal hard drive had running). You'll now have to wait while your system downloads the recovery utilities from the internet.

Select your Wi-Fi network and enter the password.

Power you mac back on while pressing Command-Option-R until you are prompted to connect to a network.

The good news is that getting to internet recovery mode is as easy as starting the regular recovery mode except with some extra steps. So I was forced to wipe and install Lion from the internet recovery utility.

My disk utilities to repair my drive were now useless. MacOS High Sierra now runs Apple's new file system, aptly named APFS. Therefore, since my MacBook was from late 2010, it provided me tools that would only install and repair disks that work with OS X Lion. Until we realize that the recovery mode from the internet will query your system and provide a version of the recovery based on when the system was released. What happens if you have no ability to start restoration utilities at boot time? Well, Apple has a built-in system that allows you to perform an internet-based recovery. When that's done, you can restore from Time Machine as needed.

#Internet recovery mac os x series#

Normally, if you have a modern Mac, an OS repair is a straight forward thing where you can reboot by pressing the Command-R keys at boot time and be presented with a series of tools to help you recover your Mac.įollowing that, you can either re-install (not wiping your personal data), run disk utilities to repair a hard drive (my intention), or wipe your hard disk completely and do a fresh install. Just because you have your data ready on a remote disk to be restored, doesn't mean you have a computer ready for you to restore to. In my previous life as a network and system administrator, I learned (the hard way) that backing up data is only part of the data protection process. The recovery process is more involved than simply restoring from Time Machine. If you have an older Mac and you perform Time Machine (or other) backups, sometimes that diligence might not be enough to get your system back up and running to an expected working state. I managed to successfully install GNU/Linux along side my macOS High Sierra installation however, when I went back to reclaim the disk space used by GNU/Linux for my macOS install running APFS, I was met with a failed boot screen. And in my fiddling I managed to completely FUBAR my beloved and venerable 2010 MacBook Air.

#Internet recovery mac os x update#

The MacBook Air firmware update also “addresses an issue where the system could restart if the power button is pressed immediately after waking from deep sleep,” according to an Apple support document.I'm far too much of a fiddler.

iMac EFI Update 1.8 for Mid-2010 iMac models (3.02MB).

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MacBook Pro EFI Firmware Update 2.6 for Early-2010 MacBook Pro models (3.18MB).

MacBook Air EFI Firmware Update 2.3 for Late-2010 MacBook Air models (2.98MB).

On Tuesday, Apple released EFI firmware updates for several other 2010 Mac models each of these updates brings Internet Recovery to its respective Mac models: Last fall, early-2011 MacBook Pro and iMac models gained the feature, and mid-2010 13-inch MacBook Pro, MacBook, and Mac mini models were blessed with such firmware updates a few weeks ago. Fortunately, Apple has been extending it to some older Macs through a series of firmware updates. Internet Recovery is a handy feature to have. Internet Recovery works even if the computer’s hard drive is damaged or missing. One of the not-so-glamourous but very useful features introduced with Lion (Mac OS X 10.7) was Lion Recovery, where the Lion installer creates a small, invisible, bootable partition on your hard drive that lets you repair your drive or even reinstall Lion if you have a problem.īut there’s a special version of Lion Recovery called Internet Recovery that lets Macs with the appropriate firmware-originally, any Macs released mid-2011 or later-use those same Lion Recovery features by net-booting, over the Internet, from Apple’s servers.