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TrevorM97 Author

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Install OS X Mavericks in 2019

I have a mid 2010 MacBook Pro. When I bought it last year, it had OS X 10.9.5 installed on it. I really love Mavericks and I recently installed an SSD in the MacBook. It is currently running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 that I installed using the DVD. I have been trying to install Mavericks. I have the InstallESD.dmg for OS X 10.9, and I have created a bootable USB drive with the disk image. When attempting do install the system from the drive, it works for a few minutes, then comes up and says “an error occurred during the installation, restart and try again” I have tried several times but it still says the same thing. Is it possible to somehow transfer the software from the old hard drive to the SSD? (although I’d really prefer to do a clean install)

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Posted on Jun 16, 2019 11:21 AM

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Eric Root

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Posted on Jun 17, 2019 9:03 AM

You could erase the drive using the Snow Leopard DVD, reinstall Snow Leopard, and after applying all updates, see if you can download Mavericks from the App Store Purchases tab if you have previously downloaded it.

You could get an external hard drive enclosure, attach the old hard drive in the enclosure, and boot from that. You can use Disk Utility to format the SSD as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), and then use Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) to copy the old hard drive to the SDD. I suggest that program because it will clone the Recovery Partition.

If you still have the installer on the old hard drive, after reformatting the SDD, you could run the installer to install Mavericks on the SDD. That would give you the clean install you would like to do.

Make sure you back up the old hard drive first.

Clone - Carbon Copy Cloner

External enclosure source.

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