Hi, I have replaced a faulty hard drive, and was ready to install a fresh os. There is now a problem with the optical drive, to be honest there has always been a problem with it spitting out discs. Rather than going to all the trouble of removing the screen taking out the optical drive, would I be able to boot and fresh install from an imac super drive. Already tried with a standard usb drive, but doesnt boot.
Thanks in advance
Can't you just do an online recovery with cmd-R at boot?
My 2010 iMac as a defective optical drive too, but I've pretty much only used cmd-R to restore it for the last 3 OSX version now.
Hi Nosferax
Already replaced the hard drive, which has now, no os, and my next step was to install from the mac discs. Can i by pass the optical drive on boot, with one of those external usb mac drives.. if i bought one.
All I have on screen is an empty folder with the question mark icon in, internal optical drive just spits the disc out
Have you tried holding down the C key while starting your mac?
Yes tried holding done C key to no avail, all morning yesterday., is their anyway I can boot from USB device.. this doesnt work from a standard CD USB drive, hence why I was asking about the mac external drives
Yes you can, but you need a second Mac to create a bootable USB first.
Put the CD into the drive and press and hold the option key to see if that works. I don't think it will but its worth a shot.
can i do this on a normal mac book? Yjchua95, or does it have to be the same make and model
can i do this on a normal mac book? Yjchua95, or does it have to be the same make and model
Put the CD into the drive and press and hold the option key to see if that works. I don't think it will but its worth a shot.