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Os x lion not available install#

Attach the secondary hard drive, and boot to the recovery tools and install OS X to this drive after partitioning and formatting it. Lastly, if you’re still having issues, a secondary USB or FireWire hard drive may be the answer. Then, using Disk Utility within the Internet Recovery tools, partition and format the drive, then install a copy of OS X Mountain Lion. To do that, simply hold Command-Option-R to force OS X to bring up Internet Recovery tools (you’ll see the spinning globe icon when they are downloading).

So, unfortunately, the furthest you can get when you try to repair your computer’s permissions is the boot drive.Īnother fix is to bypass the internal boot volume completely. MacTrast claims the fix is to simply repair the permissions on the Recovery HD partition itself, which is a mounted volume stored in a read-only disk image that can’t be modified. The first one involves repairing the installation volume’s permissions using Disk Utility. FixesĪccording to CNET, there may be a few ways to reinstall OS X on your new Mac computer. The Mountain Lion installer available in the App Store is a later version and is older than the operating system currently installed into the computer, which is causing errors when your try to download and install Mountain Lion from the App Store. OS X installer programs have a list of compatible systems on which it can be installed. The problem seems to be a compatibility issue with the Mountain Lion installer available in the App Store. It seems a bit odd that computers running OS X Mountain Lion wouldn’t be able to reinstall the OS since the computer is already running the operating system. Instead of normally installing, users see a warning that says the computer is incompatible with Mountain Lion, and the only option available is to click OK and cancel the installation.