"Starting Internet Recovery", Command+R

[Squilly]

So, I am trying to reset my MBP to factory settings. It's a rMBP running Mountain Lion. I booted it up, pressed command+r, and I've been waiting for a good 10 minutes with nothing happening. The message is:

Starting Internet Recovery.
This may take a while.

I'm not connected to the Internet. Is it supposed to take this long?

Update. Doesn't look good.

 

[Interstella5555]

So, I am trying to reset my MBP to factory settings. It's a rMBP running Mountain Lion. I booted it up, pressed command+r, and I've been waiting for a good 10 minutes with nothing happening. The message is:

I'm not connected to the Internet. Is it supposed to take this long?

Update. Doesn't look good.

You're not connected to the internet and are attempting to do internet recovery? I would imagine that would take....forever.

 

[Squilly]

You're not connected to the internet and are attempting to do internet recovery? I would imagine that would take....forever.

That's the reason I'm recovering it. The computer is locked with a password. In order to get onto the Internet, I need the password since the network is encrypted.

 

[locoboi187]

So, I am trying to reset my MBP to factory settings. It's a rMBP running Mountain Lion. I booted it up, pressed command+r, and I've been waiting for a good 10 minutes with nothing happening. The message is:

I'm not connected to the Internet. Is it supposed to take this long?

Update. Doesn't look good.

Happened to me too. I just had to give it multiple tries with different Internet routers. I live in a dorm, so it turned out my neighbor's internet worked while mine sometimes would work with recovery. Also, resetting PRAM helped a bunch for many. But since i had a firmware password i couldn't reset the PRAM. And to get rid of the firmware password, you have to go into recovery...So just jeep trying.

 

[cambookpro]

That's the reason I'm recovering it. The computer is locked with a password. In order to get onto the Internet, I need the password since the network is encrypted.

Wait... Whaa??

The computer password has nothing to do with the network encryption. All you do is type in the password of the network when booting into the recovery partition - I did it yesterday.

And why did you try and do an internet restore if you knew you weren't connected to any network?

 

[fins831]

If I buy a new macbook, replace the HD with a ssd, can I do internet recovery, or do I need an in hand disk or usb of ML.

 

[Stetrain]

As others have said you should be able to connect to your network from within the recovery utility. This article shows another way to do it by holding option instead of command-R:

http://www.macworld.com/article/116...ions_os_x_recovery_and_internet_recovery.html

Another option would be to connect to your router with an ethernet cable if possible. That would also probably speed up the download.

 

[kevink2]

If I buy a new macbook, replace the HD with a ssd, can I do internet recovery, or do I need an in hand disk or usb of ML.

Modern macbooks can access internet recovery with a blank hard drive.

I recently ran internet recovery to access disk utility when I had disk corruption, and realized I didn't have a recovery partition anymore. And before I realized I could plug in my time machine usb drive and boot off of that.

 

[cambookpro]

If I buy a new macbook, replace the HD with a ssd, can I do internet recovery, or do I need an in hand disk or usb of ML.

Modern Macs have this really neat feature hidden in the firmware where if the HD/SSD is blank or corrupted, it can download a OS X installer into the RAM and run it off that.