Long story short: got a MacBook Pro 2014, the original user forgot their password, so I reformatted the main partition leaving the recovery untouched through the use of normal recovery mode.
I then began to reinstall the original Mac OS from 2014 (OS X Mavericks) This Mac hasn’t been used by their owner due to it being a Mac and the owner is a windows user, didn’t want to learn it.
Mid way through the installation, I needed to leave as it’s late and I need to cook food, so I hit cancel and took the Mac with me.
Now when I got home, no matter what I try, I am forced to use internet recovery.
now this is the case with every Mac I try to fix in my area, at first I never thought about it until recently.
What the F!?
So when I am away, normal recovery works, if I do it at home, always internet recovery.
The recovery partition is untouched, uncorrupted. This is the nth Mac that always without fail, forces me to participate in this internet recovery.
Can anyone tell me why? If the recovery partition is unharmed, why internet recovery? It’s the same old OS from 2014.
Forgot to add, first time round, I accepted this damn internet recovery, which renders the recovery partition useless and it gave me an error like F00, re did it, and it only took 3 seconds compared to the initial 2 minuet one.
I then began to reinstall the original Mac OS from 2014 (OS X Mavericks) This Mac hasn’t been used by their owner due to it being a Mac and the owner is a windows user, didn’t want to learn it.
Mid way through the installation, I needed to leave as it’s late and I need to cook food, so I hit cancel and took the Mac with me.
Now when I got home, no matter what I try, I am forced to use internet recovery.
now this is the case with every Mac I try to fix in my area, at first I never thought about it until recently.
What the F!?
So when I am away, normal recovery works, if I do it at home, always internet recovery.
The recovery partition is untouched, uncorrupted. This is the nth Mac that always without fail, forces me to participate in this internet recovery.
Can anyone tell me why? If the recovery partition is unharmed, why internet recovery? It’s the same old OS from 2014.
Forgot to add, first time round, I accepted this damn internet recovery, which renders the recovery partition useless and it gave me an error like F00, re did it, and it only took 3 seconds compared to the initial 2 minuet one.
