Cant get in to the Recovery Mode

Toby80 · Mar 16, 2014

Hi, i am trying to reinstall Maverick OS for my imac.

But when i try to open the Recovery partition, my Mac will just shut down or just reboots. Even when i try, to do a Internet Recovery with "cmd+r" the Mac will just shut down.

I bought this imac with Lion, upgraded to Mountain Lion and now Maverick. I whant to do a clean install again, with Maverick but i can't because of the recovery issue. Does anyone have a idea what i could do, to get this fixed?

tywebb13 · Mar 16, 2014

You could make a bootable usb using this method: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/18081307/

Then boot up from it, format the drive and then use it to do a clean install of mavericks. It will also install a recovery partition.

Toby80 · Mar 16, 2014

I actually did that, but it just shut down the System after loading a few seconds. I reinstalled Maverick and after that it. worked again. I was able to get in the recovery partition and erase my HD. So my System, was some how corrupted.

tywebb13 · Mar 16, 2014

Well you might want to run some tests to see what caused it to shut down like that.

I use disk warrior, techtool pro, disk utility, apple hardware test, apple service diagnostic and a few others.

It might be a hardware problem, so reinstalling might not solve the problem.

FreakinEurekan · Mar 17, 2014

If it came with Lion, it should have Internet Recovery capability - try forcing it to boot into Internet Recovery (instead of the Recovery HDD partition) by booting with Command-Option-R

Weaselboy · Mar 17, 2014

Toby80 said:
I actually did that, but it just shut down the System after loading a few seconds. I reinstalled Maverick and after that it. worked again. I was able to get in the recovery partition and erase my HD. So my System, was some how corrupted.

Let's back up a bit. Why are you doing this all to begin with? It almost sounds like your drive is failing and reinstalling the OS will not fix that.

cool11 · Oct 27, 2014

tywebb13 said:
Well you might want to run some tests to see what caused it to shut down like that.

I use disk warrior, techtool pro, disk utility, apple hardware test, apple service diagnostic and a few others.

It might be a hardware problem, so reinstalling might not solve the problem.

Anybody created bootable usb flash disk from yosemite, using techtool protogo 4.0.4?

I tried it, no error messages during creating, but in the end the usb flash disk is empty!!!
Of course, I cannot see any option of bootable usb with this, it is like it does not exist.

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