2011 iMac Won't Restore

[PsstGreek]

I'd like to restore by iMac back to factory but for some reason it just refuses to do so. When I restart it or boot it up and get to the recovery option, the crash log pops up and gives an error.

Any help on this would be awesome.

 

[Weaselboy]

Try bypassing normal recovery and go to Internet recovery by holding command-option-r at boot. Once you select your wifi you will see a spinning globe while the recovery utility downloads. Then you will see the recovery screen. From there use Disk Util to erase the entire disk then click reinstall OS X at the top.

 

[jdphoto]

Also you could make a Yosemite USB install stick and boot from it (then format the drive and reinstall).

 

[PsstGreek]

Try bypassing normal recovery and go to Internet recovery by holding command-option-r at boot. Once you select your wifi you will see a spinning globe while the recovery utility downloads. Then you will see the recovery screen. From there use Disk Util to erase the entire disk then click reinstall OS X at the top.

Tried it the way you suggested and it gave me a "-1005F" error.

 

[Weaselboy]

Tried it the way you suggested and it gave me a "-1005F" error.

I think that is a network issue. Look on this page down at the section about supported configurations for recovery.

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT4718