Accidentally wiped my whole drive.
Hey guys.
As per title i wanted to install ubuntu on seprate partition but accidentally chosen "use whole drive" in ubuntu installer and it wiped the whole drive with the restore partition:( now the problem is i cant for the life of me get it back and run Mac OS X Yosemite.i've tried with my old mountain lion install DVD but it just hangs,tried booting and pressing N to get to netboot but the globe flashes few times and then disappears,and tried to make bootable usb drive but noone i know has a mac so i'm trying to do this on old windows pc thru tranmac app and it wont boot either.
is there any help for me or should i just cut my hands off to not mess with it again?
any suggetions i would be very greatful
thanks for any help
P.
There is no such thing as a Mountain Lion install DVD, so if you have one it is bogus!
Boot from the Recovery Partition on your iMac and then select Restore From Time Machine backup. If you do not have a Time Machine backup or have not created another type of backup then all of your data, apps, settings etc are gone. If you have another type of backup then while in the Recovery Partition install OS X and once it is running the restore from that backup following the developers instructions.
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