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Q: How to reinstall OS X Mavericks without Recovery Disk on boot-up?

I would appreciate some help from anyone who has expertise in the subject and would like to lend me a hand. I followed every step from this guide and upgraded my old 250GB stock HDD to a brand new OWC 240GB Mercury Electra 3G SSD 2.5" Serial-ATA 7mm Solid State Drive. When I first connected it, a messaged prompted saying that the Macbook could not read the disk, but when I check Disk Utility the new SSD was there and I just continued with the process and ignored that message (Idk if this may be my error). Before I began the installing process I checked if this new SSD was compatible with my Late-2008 Aluminum Macbook and it was compatible indeed.

After booting everything was blazing fast and smooth, except for one thing. Some of Apple's built in apps did not work properly or didn't work at all (such as Mail, App Store, Calendar, Messages, Maps, iWork suite, iBooks and even utility apps like Terminal and some others third parties). However iTunes, iLife suite, Safari, System Preferences work perfectly. To fix third parties I just erased them and reinstalled them, but I cannot do the same with the non-fuctioning Mac apps. So my choice seemed to be to reinstall OS X using CMD + R when booting, but that command does not work either, nor a Recovery Disk appear when holding the Option button on booting. I also cannot install Mavericks or Yosemite through the App Store because it is not working either, and what I'd like to do is to reinstall Mavericks before upgrading to Yosemite.

So I don't know how to solve this and would really, really appreciate some help here from you guys.

Thanks in advance!

MacBook, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), Late 2008 - Aluminum

Posted on Oct 18, 2014 8:44 AM