I have an iMac that came with Mavericks which I thought I had registered under my Apple ID, but I don’t see it as a device. I’m looking to do a clean install, so I went to disk utilities and did the following:
Erased the HD in Mac OS Extended (journaled)
Booted back in Disk Utilities
Selected Reinstall OSX
Went through the screens including entering my Apple ID/pw
I then get the message “This item is temporarily unavailable”
I’ve seen sever post about people not getting by this message which I’ve tried. I’ve also tried the following:
Downloaded a copy of Yosemite from Cnet and tried created an install USB using TransMac. I was able to restore the image from the USB on the iMac. When I restarted, it appears something was loading and about half way through it stopped. I tried a few times and finally gave up.
I found a Mavericks Installer (~5 GB) file which I copied to my Windows PC and used TransMac to transfer to a USB drive. I’ve not gotten this to work either.
I would like to get a OS X installed on the iMac. Can someone provide me the instructions to do so?
Thanks,
Erased the HD in Mac OS Extended (journaled)
Booted back in Disk Utilities
Selected Reinstall OSX
Went through the screens including entering my Apple ID/pw
I then get the message “This item is temporarily unavailable”
I’ve seen sever post about people not getting by this message which I’ve tried. I’ve also tried the following:
Downloaded a copy of Yosemite from Cnet and tried created an install USB using TransMac. I was able to restore the image from the USB on the iMac. When I restarted, it appears something was loading and about half way through it stopped. I tried a few times and finally gave up.
I found a Mavericks Installer (~5 GB) file which I copied to my Windows PC and used TransMac to transfer to a USB drive. I’ve not gotten this to work either.
I would like to get a OS X installed on the iMac. Can someone provide me the instructions to do so?
Thanks,