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Oct 31, 2016
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I've just purchased a Mac A1181 for my girlfriend. It was under some girls admin name and they didn't know the password so nothing could be done, I decided to factory reset it following online instructions. I tried deleting the hard drive and now whenever I click Reinstall MAC OS X and put in my Email/Password for my Apple ID it doesn't let me re-install it, it just says ''This Item Is Temporarily Unavailable'' I've also tried doing the partition thing and it says unable to unmount disk.

I don't know what to do as it won't bring up the desktop at all anymore, whenever I turn it on it just brings me straight to MAC OS X Utilities and I don't know what to do to get past it, thank you!

I've just tried and it says.
''MAX OS X Lion
Mac OS X will be installed on the disk ''Mac OS X Base System''

Above it is Recovery HD with 650 MB total and 129.9 MB available
 
I've just purchased a Mac A1181 for my girlfriend. It was under some girls admin name and they didn't know the password so nothing could be done, I decided to factory reset it following online instructions. I tried deleting the hard drive and now whenever I click Reinstall MAC OS X and put in my Email/Password for my Apple ID it doesn't let me re-install it, it just says ''This Item Is Temporarily Unavailable'' I've also tried doing the partition thing and it says unable to unmount disk.

I don't know what to do as it won't bring up the desktop at all anymore, whenever I turn it on it just brings me straight to MAC OS X Utilities and I don't know what to do to get past it, thank you!

I've just tried and it says.
''MAX OS X Lion
Mac OS X will be installed on the disk ''Mac OS X Base System''

Above it is Recovery HD with 650 MB total and 129.9 MB available
It won't boot to anything else because you erased the startup volume. This error most likely means you haven't purchased OS X Lion with your Apple ID. I would suggest getting a copy of the Snow Leopard DVD and use that or buy and redeem OS X Lion in the App Store on another Mac.
 
It won't boot to anything else because you erased the startup volume. This error most likely means you haven't purchased OS X Lion with your Apple ID. I would suggest getting a copy of the Snow Leopard DVD and use that or buy and redeem OS X Lion in the App Store on another Mac.


I don't have access to another mac so I'll try and get Snow Leopard DVD and do it, do I need to put Snow Leopard in another mac or can I put it in the mac and it'll just boot?
 
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