I was accidentally entered recovery mode, although I purchased osx 10.8 for some reason when i sign in my apple id it does not allo nothing and just returns to the sign in screen. I would like to just use my computer i didnt mean to enter this and i do not need to reinstall my osx is there a way to bypass this screen and go back to my normal functions?
iMac, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.4)
You can exit this mode by choosing "Restart" from the Apple menu. If the system keeps on going to this mode, then choose "Startup Disk" from the Apple menu and select your normal boot disk (it should have your OS version listed next to its name). After doing this, click the restart button, and you should be good to go.
If the system still goes to recovery mode, then you may need to use the OS reinstall option to make the hard drive bootable again. This will not affect your installed programs, data, and settings, and will only replace the operating system software underneath everything.
You can exit this mode by choosing "Restart" from the Apple menu. If the system keeps on going to this mode, then choose "Startup Disk" from the Apple menu and select your normal boot disk (it should have your OS version listed next to its name). After doing this, click the restart button, and you should be good to go.
If the system still goes to recovery mode, then you may need to use the OS reinstall option to make the hard drive bootable again. This will not affect your installed programs, data, and settings, and will only replace the operating system software underneath everything.
Go through Apple>Startup Disk and select Hard Disk, put in your password and it should load up your old computer.
Also works on later software. I did it on my Mac o MacOS Sierra. 🙂
Can you describe what happened in more detail?
exit recovery
