-
All replies
-
Helpful answers
-
Jul 23, 2015 3:31 AM in response to Chris449by OGELTHORPE,When dealing with a beta version of an application, there may be risks associated with doing so and you must be willing to accept them. That appears to be the case here.
What you can do in recovery mode is to erase the HDD which then should allow you to install an OSX. This will delete all user data, but if you have a backup, that should not be a significant problem.
Ciao.
-
Jul 23, 2015 3:41 AM in response to OGELTHORPEby Chris449,Unfortunately I do not have a backup, hence why I would like to reinstall instead of deleting my whole hdd. I have 7.5gb free, so I only need to delete a few files to be able to do this!
-
Jul 23, 2015 4:04 AM in response to Chris449by OGELTHORPE,See if a safe boot will allow access:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262
If not, try Target Disk mode;
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201462
Or take out the HDD, install it in an enclosure and connect it to another Mac via USB.
Ciao.
-
Jul 23, 2015 4:13 AM in response to OGELTHORPEby Chris449,Sare mode does not work - it still just crashes when trying to log on.
I Don't have another Mac nearby to do TD mode.
Do you know the command line to delete a file on the desktop in Command recovery mode? If I can delete that (it's 5gb in size) I can simply reinstall OS X. In command it keeps saying 'file not found'.
Thanks
-
Jul 23, 2015 4:25 AM in response to Chris449by OGELTHORPE,Chris449 wrote:
Do you know the command line to delete a file on the desktop in Command recovery mode?
No I do not.
The last option that might work is to install an OSX on an external HDD and boot the MBP from that. Then you can access the internal storage device and delete data. This assumes that you can get into Internet recovery, OPTION + COMMAND + R at startup.
Ciao.