I bought this iMac the other day and all is well, except I'd quite like to set it up as my computer and do a fresh install of Lion. I've no idea how to do this though? I tried restarting and holding down command R, then tried just command, neither of those worked.. I don't have the recovery thing that's supposed to come with Lion.. what's up? what do i do?
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Reinstalling Lion on second hand iMac
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Is it a wireless keyboard? My wireless won't catch the CMD+R at boot, so I have to use a wired keyboard.
Otherwise look in the Utitlites folder (or download it) for the Recovery assistant:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433
It lets you create a Recovery boot on a USB stick.
it doesnt work! i get this message:
"The Recovery HD on this computer is damaged or not present. Recovery Disk Assistant requires a functioning Lion Recovery HD to create an external Lion Recovery."
??? it shouldn't be this hard
when i got the computer it had reFit on it, and you chose to boot into OSX - and i deleted it... could this be a problem?
"The Recovery HD on this computer is damaged or not present. Recovery Disk Assistant requires a functioning Lion Recovery HD to create an external Lion Recovery."
??? it shouldn't be this hard
when i got the computer it had reFit on it, and you chose to boot into OSX - and i deleted it... could this be a problem?