Installing or reinstalling OS X in Recovery Mode. Before selling your Mac, its always a good idea to wipe its startup disk clean and then erase your computer and reinstall OS X. And should your computer exhibit issues preventing it from starting up properly, reinstalling OS X will bring it to perfect working order. Reinstalling OS X is a piece of cake provided you have created a USB install disk for El Capitan to begin with. As you may have guessed, not many people take that extra step. In helping take the pain out of reinstalling OS X, Apple has included so called Recovery Mode in OS X. Invoked at boot time, Recovery Mode helps you check your connected disks for errors, get help online and reinstall OS X. This tutorial covers entering Recovery Mode and taking advantage of it to erase, install or reinstall the latest version of OS X that was previously found on your Mac. The step by step instructions provided below will restore your computer to factory settings. 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Here in this topic, we are able to download Mac OS X 10. Snow Leopard DVD. ISO, Mac OS X 10. Snow Leopard. DMG, and Snow Leopard. Torrent without Apple Stor. Disk Image Snow Leopard Install Formatter' title='Disk Image Snow Leopard Install Formatter' />Disk Image Snow Leopard Install Format FactoryHold down the Command R combination immediately upon hearing the startup chime. Hold these keys pressed until the Apple logo appears. Disk Image Snow Leopard Install Format Fectory' title='Disk Image Snow Leopard Install Format Fectory' />If you have a Mac notebook, press the keys on its built in keyboard because the Recovery Mode keystroke may not necessarily register on external or wireless keyboards. Tip To reinstall OS X without deleting your files and settings intact, jump to step 7. Generally you dont need to erase your startup disk to reinstall OS X, explains Apple. The OS X Installer is designed to allow you to perform an install in place over the same version or earlier versions of OS X. Select Disk Utility and click Continue. Select the intended volume name from the left side and click the Erase tab. Tip To see additional disks, click the button Show All Drives. In the Format pop up menu, choose Mac OS Extended Journaled, type a new name for your disk and click Erase. This will erase all the information from the disk, including your personal data. Tip Click Security Options to select options for securely erasing the disk. A communitybuilt site of hints and tips on using Apples new Mac OS X operating system. PowerMacG4. com how to upgrade your Apple Power Mac G4. Overclock your G4. Links to purchase PowerMac G4 systems. Install a Pioneer SuperDrive. G4 PowerMac Resources. MacOS is designed to take full advantage of the capabilities in every Mac. Its easy to use, comes with amazing apps, and helps protect your data. After the disk has been erased, select Disk Utility Quit Disk Utility. Now choose Reinstall OS X and click Continue. In the pane where you select a disk, select your newly formatted partition and follow the onscreen instructions. You may be prompted to authorize your Mac with an Apple ID. Ensure your Mac is connected to the Internet via Wi Fi DHCP mode only or Ethernet. If you have a Mac notebook, plug it into the power adapter. RELATED How to create USB install disk for OS X El Capitan. Requirements for reinstalling OS X in Recovery Mode. If Recovery Mode is used to install OS X, your Wi Fi or Ethernet network must use DHCP only WPAWPA2 Wi Fi authentication is supported in Recovery Mode. You cannot reinstall OS X in Recovery Mode if your Mac is connected to a Wi Fi or Ethernet network that uses the following authentication methods WEPWPA Enterprise. Certificate based authentication 8. Proxies where specific proxy servers must be configured in network preferencesCaptive Wi Fi networks where you click an Agree button to access the InternetPPPo. E where there is no router handling the PPPo. E connectionIf your Internet connection has requirements or settings that are not supported by OS X Recovery, try changing the settings on your router to a supported configuration for the duration of the OS X installation process. RELATED How to repair disk permissions on your Mac. Recovery Mode unavailableUse Internet Recovery. Recovery Mode mounts a recovery system image with the recovery tools from a hidden recovery partition on your startup disk. If this partition, which also holds an image of the OS X installer, becomes damaged, you wont be able to enter Recovery Mode. Thankfully, 2. 01. Macs with OS X Lion or later can be booted directly from Apples servers. This is known as Internet Recovery Mode. Internet Recovery basically downloads a recovery system image from Apples servers, and then starts up your Mac from it. Its your only option in case you cannot enter the normal Recovery Mode or your Macs startup disk has become corrupted, damaged or replaced. RELATED How to start up your Mac in Internet Recovery Mode. Its important to keep in mind that Internet Recovery Mode lets you install a version of OS X that came preloaded on your Mac at the time of purchase, not the most recent version that you may have upgraded to through the Mac App Store. To enter Internet Recovery, restart your Mac and hold down the Command Option R after hearing the startup chime. You will be asked to connect to a Wi Fi network if your Mac isnt already connected to the Internet via Ethernet. Depending on your Internet connection, booting into Internet Recovery Mode may take a while. After reinstalling OS X in Internet Recovery Mode, use the Mac App Stores Updates tab to upgrade your operating system to the most recent OS X version available. Some older Macs with OS X Snow Leopard may be able to use Internet Recovery Mode after installing OS X Lion or later, and a firmware update. Things you can do in Recovery Mode. Recovery Mode and Internet Recovery Mode both provide the same recovery tools which permit you to perform the following maintenance tasks on your Mac If your Macs startup volume and its recovery partition are damaged or corrupted, the computer will automatically enter Internet Recovery Mode when powered on. Related tutorials. Check out these resources that cover a myriad of ways you can start up your Mac For even more how tos, browse our complete archive of Mac tutorials. Need help Ask i. DB Not sure how to do certain things on your Apple device Let us know at helpi. Download. Blog. com and our future tutorials might cover your specific problem and provide a solution. Submit your how to suggestions at tipsi. Download. Blog. com. How to install OS X Mountain Lion on your PC with i. Atkos. If youre interested in running Mac OS X, but you dont want to pay ridiculous prices for a normal Mac, then a Hackintosh just might be for you. Right now, the newest iteration of OS X is 1. Mountain Lion. In this guide, well show you how to install Mountain Lion on your PC with the i. Atkos distro. Weve previously covered how to install Mountain Lion on a PC using tonymacx. Unibeast tool, which requires you to have an existing Mac OS X installation. This usually means that you have to install Snow Leopard on your PC first, or find a real Mac. However, with a distro like i. Atkos, you can jump straight to Mountain Lion. Distros are pirated copies of Mac OS X that have been modified to work with a PC. If you dont have any qualms with the legal issues regarding distros, theyre actually the most convenient way to set up a Hackintosh. Requirements An existing Windows computerMacHackintosh This is the computer where you will download and set up i. Atkos. Either Windows or Mac OS X will work. If youre using a Windows computer, it needs to have a DVDBluray burner just about every DVDBluray drive nowadays can act as a burner, too. A Hackintosh compatible computer with 1. Amcap Crack Full Version. GB of free space This is the computer where you will install OS X Mountain Lion. It can be the same computer as the one mentioned in the previous point. If your computer already has Mac OS X Lion installed, i. Atkos will just update Lion to Mountain Lion normally, without deleting any of your apps or files. However, not every computer will work with Mac OS X. Be sure to read the Hackintosh compatibility guide very carefully, to check whether or not your computer qualifies. Also, OS X Mountain Lion takes up about 1. GB of space on its initial installation, so the computer where you install Mac OS X must have at least 1. GB of space in its hard drive. However, thats only the bare minimum if you plan to install Mac OS X for day to day use, I recommend allocating at least 5. GB of space.  Its preferred that you use a completely empty hard drive for this, but if your computer already has Windows installed on your hard drive, be sure to create an appropriate hard disk partition for OS X Mountain Lion beforehand by following Step 1 of our guide to MBR partitions. Atkos ML2 Free i. Atkos is by far the most popular distro of OS X Mountain Lion. I wont go into details, but you can download it from just about any bittorrent website by using a bittorrent client its about 5 GB in size. The standard method of installing Mountain Lion on a PC requires you to modify a retail copy of OS X Mountain Lion with Unibeast, but i. Atkos already does all of this for you. In this guide, you will write i. Atkos onto a USB drive or DVD, and boot your computer from i. Atkos to install Mac OS X. This guide describes how to install i. Atkos ML2. You can also use i. Atkos ML3, an updated version that only works with motherboards with UEFI. If youre not sure which version to use, just use ML2. A dual layer DVD, Bluray disc, or empty USB drive 8 GB or larger If you are setting up i. Atkos from Windows, you have to write i. Atkos onto a dual layer DVD or Bluray disc normal DVDs dont work because i. Atkos is slightly too large. However, if youre setting up i. Atkos from Mac OS X, you can use a 8 GB or larger USB drive instead of a dual layer DVD. You will need to erase all of the files on your USB drive beforehand, so make sure to back up its contents first. You can reuse this USB drive for normal stuff after you finish installing Mountain Lion. You cannot write i. Atkos onto a USB drive from a Windows computer. If you really want to use a USB drive from Windows, install Mountain Lion on a virtual machine and set up an i. Atkos USB drive on there instead. Be sure to install the Virtualbox Extension Pack to view USB drives from your virtual machine. Trans. Mac 4. 8, 2 week free trial If youre using a Windows computer to set up i. Atkos, you need to use Trans. Mac to write burn the i. Atkos disk image file onto your dual layer DVD or Bluray disc. You dont actually need to purchase Trans. Mac the free trial works fine. Carbon Copy Cloner 4. If youre using a Mac to set up i. Atkos, you need to use Carbon Copy Cloner to write the i. Atkos disk image file onto your USB drive. You dont need to actually purchase Carbon Copy Cloner the free trial works fine. Multibeast Free Multibeast is a collection of kext files that your Hackintosh will need to run properly, after the initial installation. If youre using a Mac to set up i. Atkos, you will also need Multibeast before the initial installation. Be sure to download the newest version 5 of Multibeast, not the older versions 3 or 4 which are for Snow Leopard and Lion, respectively. Create your i. Atkos USB drive Mac. Follow this step if youre setting up i. Atkos on a Mac or existing Hackintosh. Plug your USB drive into Mac OS X, and open Disk Utility located in the Utilities folder in the Applications folder. Select the USB drive in the sidebar of Disk Utility, go to the Partition tab of Disk Utility, and create a new partition layout with 1 partition. Set the format to Mac OS Extended Journaled. Name the new partition whatever you want. Click the Options button before applying your new partition layout. It should be set to Master Boot Record by default. Keep it that way. Then click Apply. Open your downloaded i. Atkos disk image by double clicking it this file will probably be named i. ATKOSML2. dmg. Then, start Carbon Copy Cloner, and set the i. Atkos disk image as the Source and your USB drive as the Destination. In the screenshot below, my USB drive is named Whatever. This will write all of the contents of the i. Atkos disk image onto your USB drive. This will take 1. USB drive. Once Carbon Copy Cloner is done, your USB drive will contain a fully functional OS X Mountain Lion installer. However, its still unbootable on PCs. To fix this, open Multibeast and select the USB drive as the installation location. Select Drivers Bootloaders Bootloaders Chimera, and run the Multibeast installer. NOTE If Multibeast doesnt give you the chance to choose the installation location, click past the pages in Multibeast, until you reach the page with the Change Install Location button. Create your i. Atkos DVD Windows. Follow this step if youre setting up i. Atkos on Windows. Insert your dual layer DVD into Windows, and open Trans. Mac. Click File Open Disk Image. In the Windows Explorer window that pops up, select your downloaded i. Atkos disk image this file will probably be named i. ATKOSML2. dmg. Your i. Atkos disk image will pop up in the left sidebar of the Trans. Mac window. Right click on it, and click Burn to CDDVD. Then burn the disk image. This process may take up to an hour or more, depending on the speed of your DVD burner. Once Trans. Mac finishes, you will have a fully bootable DVD version of the i. Atkos Mountain Lion installer. Set up the parts of your PCI covered these steps in my Snow Leopard guide, but theyre worth mentioning again Unplug all USB connected devices from your computer before you begin the setup except your keyboard and mouse. A faulty external USB hard drive can cause your Hackintosh bootloader to give you EBIOS errors on startup. Open up your computer and unplug any extra internal hard drives that your computer has, besides the hard drive that youre installing OS X on.