Can't reach recovery on 10.6.8 and lost discs
Hi,
My friend has a Mac which I am guessing is from around 2010 / 2011, which has 10.6.8 installed. It will boot to desktop OK, but hangs shortly after with the rainbow wheel, but you are still able to move the mouse around, but just not click on anything.
I have tried to boot into recovery using CMD + R but it just boots normally, so I am assuming there is no recovery partition. I have also tried to boot into safe mode to access the Disk Utility, but it doesn't really get much further than the desktop.
She is happy for me to wipe the HD clean and do a fresh install as she has all of her documents backed up already (not via Time Machine)
Now we have a problem in that she has lost the discs that came with the Mac, so we can't use those to get to recovery / reinstall. She has a Macbook Pro too, so could she possibly download a copy of Mountain Lion from the App Store on there, create a bootable USB and install this on her Mac. I know that the CDs that come with machines are build specific to the machine, but is the download from the App store also specific to the machine, or is it just like a general retail version that can be installed on any Mac?
Thanks
Hi Eric,
Thanks for the response. She does in fact have Mountain Lion available for download on her app store as she bought this for her MacBook pro.
So I guess the only question I have regarding this now, if she presses download on Mountain Lion using her MacBook pro, will this download a macbook pro specific version (like the discs sent with systems), or is it just a general retail release of Mountain Lion that can be installed on a Macbook, Macbook Pro, Mac etc ? If it is just a normal retail version that can be used on any system, I can create a bootable USB and go from there.
Thanks
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