Problem with Formatting MacBook Pro
Hey guys!
I have a MacBook Pro (realeased in 2010) and I want to format it. It originally had the OS X Lion, then installed Mountain Lion and then OS X Mavericks.
I restarted and holded Control button until I get the options Maverics and Recovery and then chose Recovery etc. When I had the four options for the format process I chose the Disk Utility where I erased my hard drive as OS X Extended (Journaled) (Note that I also have a partition on and it will not erase for some reason). After when I closed the Disk Utility window and I was back to the four options I chose the Reinstall OS X Mavericks option and when I pressed continue it wouldn't do anything.
Anybody knows what the problem might be and how can I resolve it?
At first I thought it was something to do with the BootCamp Partition but I couldn't start-up the computer to try and resolve it as I have already erased all the Macintosh partition data.
If there is anyone that can help me on this I would be grateful guys!
Thanks!
Are you saying your problems on this thread are not resolved?
https://discussions.apple.com/message/25537846#25537846
I'll reply about GUID in a moment.
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