Feb 15, 2014  In this video I show you how to install OS X mac operating system on a brand new hard drive using Internet recovery. If your hard drive crashes. If the recovery partition on your Mac has been damaged and you cannot enter standard Recovery Mode and Internet Recovery is unavailable, you can still start the computer from an external drive with a bootable version of OS X.

You Are Now Connected! You have now successfully connected to the UF Wireless Service. If you have problems at any time during this procedure, visit a DHNet@Home location, call (352) 392-2465, or submit an iServiceDesk Request. How to change to wired internet connection for mac os sierra. To connect to the Internet over a wired connection, connect an Ethernet cable between your router or modem and the Ethernet port on your Mac. Some Macs require an Ethernet adapter like the Belkin USB-C to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter, or the Apple Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter.

After purchasing a new hard drive or managing a corrupt one on an older Mac, you can install your current version of OS X even though you might not have a working Recovery option (on the drive or through Internet Recovery) present on your system. Install safari for mac on old mac. New Mac systems built in 2010 and later support an Internet Recovery mode, which can be used to download the boot image generally stored on the OS X Recovery partition so you can run diagnostics. This mode is convenient to have, since errors with the hard drive or a blank hard drive could prevent the conventional recovery partition from working.

If your system was built before 2010, then even though it might run the latest OS X versions, it will not have Internet Recovery as an option, which can result in problems if you have swapped out the hard drive, or experience problems with it and wish to reinstall freshly. In the event of swapping out a healthy drive with a new one, you can put the old drive in an external enclosure, boot off of it, and then use a cloning tool to mirror its contents to the new drive. But when replacing a faulty drive, this might not be doable. In these cases, then you have two options. The first is to install OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard on your computer, which is on the gray installation discs that came with your system, or on a retail Snow Leopard installation DVD. After installing this version, you will then need to update it, and access the Mac App Store where you can download a previously purchased license for Mountain Lion to install.

This procedure will require you to install and upgrade, but if you wish to install only the latest version of OS X freshly, then you will need to create an external recovery drive to use with your system. If you had the foresight to do so with the latest version of OS X, then you might have such a drive around somewhere; however, if not then you will need to access a system running Mountain Lion and use Apple's to mirror the recovery volume to the drive. With the recovery drive created, attach it to your Mac and reboot with the Option key held down, and you should see it appear as an option in the boot menu. Select it and continue booting, and you should load to the standard OS X Tools window, which you can use to format your internal drive and reinstall OS X.