[kwlug-disc] Installing OS on a mac with dead HD

[Bob Jonkman]

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When I saw Jonathan Poole's answer I thought "If the drive is dead,
what recovery partition is there to recover from?"

So, how *does* this work? Do Mac computers have the entire OS
installation media available in firmware?

- --Bob


On 2017-09-25 03:44 PM, Joe Wennechuk wrote:
> You my sir, win the prize!!!
> 
> 
> Thank you very much! I have so little experience with Mac, and
> MacOS, but this worked perfectly!
> 
> 
> Joseph Wennechuk Phone: (226) 505-4812 
> https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joseph-wennechuk/4/b59/382
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> 
> ________________________________ From: kwlug-disc
> <kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org> on behalf of Jonathan Poole
> <jpoole at digitaljedi.ca> Sent: September 25, 2017 12:22 PM To: KWLUG
> discussion Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Installing OS on a mac with
> dead HD
> 
> 
> Can you not just replace the drive, reboot the mac into recovery
> mode and install from internet over wifi?
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original message-----
>> From:Joe Wennechuk Sent: Monday, September 25 2017, 12:15 pm To:
>> KWLUG discussion Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Installing OS on a mac
>> with dead HD
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I can burn an ISO I found online, but it is a problem with the
>> UEFI I think.
>> 
>> Joseph Wennechuk
>> 
>> Phone: (226) 505-4812
>> 
>> https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joseph-wennechuk/4/b59/382
>> <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joseph-wennechuk/4/b59/382>
>> 
>> -----------
>> 
>> From: kwlug-disc <kwlug-disc-bounces at kwlug.org> on behalf of
>> CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
>> 
>> Sent: September 25, 2017 12:01 PM
>> 
>> To: kwlug-disc at kwlug.org
>> 
>> Subject: Re: [kwlug-disc] Installing OS on a mac with dead HD
>> 
>> Assuming that you have the mac ISO, you could look at Etcher to
>> write the USB stick:  https://etcher.io/ <https://etcher.io/>
>> 
>> On Mon, 25 Sep 2017 at 11:59 Joe Wennechuk
>> <youcanreachmehere at hotmail.com
>> <mailto:youcanreachmehere at hotmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi All,
>> 
>> I have looked everywhere and cant figure this out. I have a
>> macbook pro and the HD is dead. I need to reinstall the OS on a
>> new HD, but don't have access to another mac. Is there any way to
>> create the os install boot disk from a linux machine?
>> 
>> Joseph Wennechuk
>> 
>> Phone: (226) 505-4812 <tel:(226)%20505-4812>
>> 
>> https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joseph-wennechuk/4/b59/382
>> <https://www.linkedin.com/pub/joseph-wennechuk/4/b59/382>
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