Reinstall lion on empty drive
Hi,
I am trying to fix my mate's MacBook Air, which wouldn't boot. After booting from an external drive I used disk utilty to try and repair the internal drive but got an error saying "invalid node structure' or something like that and that it could not be repaired. So I erased the internal drive with the intention of just reinstalling snow leopard. However, I hadn't realised that it was running Lion...
So now I have an erased internal drive on the MacBook but I do have Time Machine backups on an external drive. How can I restore one of these backups off the external drive? I don't know how to reinstall Lion as it doesn't come with a disk like the previous os x versions have...
Any help on how to restore one of the Time Machine backups (or reinstall Lion without having to repurchase it) would be greatly appreaciated!
Cheers.
I repaired the Time Machine drive using disk utility as it showed errors when i verified it. That went fine but when I tried again to boot from it the same thing happened... It shows the Time Machine drive when holding option at startup but when i click it, it just gives the grey screen with the question mark folder... Whats going on?
Anyway, I booted from my external bootable drive (different to his external time machine drive) and loaded the app store. I logged in with his details but when I searched for Lion, it didn't say anything about already being purchased... it just showed the price. I looked in the purchased tab and it had nothing in there...
How can I download Lion without paying for it again? It was paid for when the computer was bought so we should not be charged again (IMO)...
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How can I re-download and install Lion?
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You can purchase Snow Leopard through the Apple Store: Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Apple Store (U.S.). The price is $19.99 plus tax. You will be sent physical media by mail after placing your order.
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1. Mac computer with an Intel processor
2. 1GB of memory
3. 5GB of available disk space
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5. Some features require a compatible Internet service provider;
fees may apply.
6. Some features require Apple’s iCloud services; fees and
terms apply.
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eubiedoo wrote:
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