Q: Doing a recovery without the main display
I have an iMac and it's main monitor is not working. I have attached and external monitor and it used to work fine and I could mirror image by pressing Command-F1. Now, the computer is crashed somehow and I want to restore the computer to it's original settings(reinstall the operating system). I tried to go to recovery mode by pressing keys Command-R and it displays a grey screen on the external display but nothing happens after that. How can I go about this and get my external display to show everything so I can go to recovery mode and do the reinstallation?
iMac, Mac OS X (10.7)
Posted on Jul 11, 2013 1:08 PM
I tested it out with the MacBook I had in my office and when I boot the computer in to Recovery mode, the dialog boxes are actually in the computer screen, not in the external monitor eventhough I set it as primary. I can see the background of the recovery mode screen in the other display so the only thing I can do was try to click on the dialog box that is in the computer screen which I can't see and drag it in to the external sceen. It's kind of like fishing. That is actually almost impossible to do so I resolved my issue by creating a new profile and deleting the existing one. I just wanted to post what I did here 'cause this might be usefull to someone in the future. Thanks.
Posted on Jul 13, 2013 9:42 PM