February 13, 2023, 11:19 AM
muddle_mannAnyone got a disc for Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra?
Anyone got a disc for Mac OS X 10.13 High Sierra?
Neighbor has a MacBook Air. Won’t boot. Needs drive wiped and reinstalled. She doesn’t have any discs. Email in profile. Thx
February 13, 2023, 11:23 AM
maladatWill it boot to recovery mode? You can repair or reinstall the OS from recovery mode.
Apple makes it difficult to screw up the recovery partition, if reinstalling from physical media would work, reinstalling from recovery mode should work.
https://www.macworld.com/artic...c-recovery-mode.htmlFebruary 13, 2023, 11:38 AM
PCWyomingTry here:
https://archive.org/details/in...-high-sierra-10.13.1or this one:
https://archive.org/details/MacOSXHighSierra10.13I have used this website for other versions (mostly older MACs).
PC
February 13, 2023, 12:33 PM
sigcrazy7You can download the .dmg image directly from Apple.
https://support.apple.com/kb/D...e=en_US&locale=en_USFebruary 13, 2023, 12:56 PM
muddle_mannquote:
Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
You can download the .dmg image directly from Apple.
https://support.apple.com/kb/D...e=en_US&locale=en_US
I have these on a thumb drive but it won’t see to boot from. I’ll try the file at the link and burn to a disc and see what happens. Thanks!
February 13, 2023, 01:00 PM
muddle_mannquote:
Originally posted by maladat:
Will it boot to recovery mode? You can repair or reinstall the OS from recovery mode.
Apple makes it difficult to screw up the recovery partition, if reinstalling from physical media would work, reinstalling from recovery mode should work.
https://www.macworld.com/artic...c-recovery-mode.html
Think it’s too old and does not have the recovery partition.I can option boot to the tools. I had to format the internal to fix the file issues.
February 13, 2023, 09:04 PM
sigcrazy7You need to make a bootable disk. A USB drive won’t be bootable simply because you copied the dmg to it. From the terminal:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume
The bigger question is why not just boot to internet recovery mode using Command + Option + Shift + R (to install the original OS), or Command + Option + R to install the last OS the computer supports? It takes awhile to boot from the internet, but it will allow an OS restore even if the local recovery partition is corrupt. It’s still faster to go this route then it is to create bootable media locally. Unless the computer cannot access the internet for some reason.
February 14, 2023, 06:20 AM
Jjmcdquote:
Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
You need to make a bootable disk. A USB drive won’t be bootable simply because you copied the dmg to it. From the terminal:
sudo /Applications/Install\ macOS\ High\ Sierra.app/Contents/Resources/createinstallmedia --volume /Volumes/MyVolume
Sigcrazy has the right of it.
Best to find a decent speed internet connection and do the restore that way.
The bigger question is why not just boot to internet recovery mode using Command + Option + Shift + R (to install the original OS), or Command + Option + R to install the last OS the computer supports? It takes awhile to boot from the internet, but it will allow an OS restore even if the local recovery partition is corrupt. It’s still faster to go this route then it is to create bootable media locally. Unless the computer cannot access the internet for some reason.