I restarted my computer and it brought up the welcome screen that cones up after an OS upgrade. I get all the way through to the restore succesful please restar computer page and click ok. The computer restarts and loops back around to the welcome screen. Any idea how I can break this loop..??
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Reinstalling OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility and press the Continue button. After Disk Utility loads select the Macintosh HD entry from the the left side list. Click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If Disk Utility reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit Disk Utility and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
Alternatively, see:
Reinstall OS X Without Erasing the Drive
Choose the version you have installed now:
OS X Mavericks- Reinstall OS X
OS X Mountain Lion- Reinstall OS X
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet
if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
I get all the way to the end, through "install mountain lion" then get an error message saying "software temporarily unavailible".
Do i just have to keep waiting?
thanks
What version of the OS are you trying to install?
mountain lion
Have you ever purchased Mountain Lion from the App Store? Did your computer come with Mountain Lion pre-installed? Are you actually trying to download Mavericks? Otherwise, the servers may have been unavailable. All you can do is keep trying.
What version of OS X was pre-installed on your computer when it was new?
MacBook Pro restarting after "restore from time machine" completes
