Q: I have totally crashed my iOS operating system on my desktop. How do I download a fresh copy onto SD card and boot to that to rein ... I have totally crashed my iOS operating system on my desktop. How do I download a fresh copy onto SD card and boot to that to reinstall more
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Jan 7, 2016 9:03 AM in response to loydfromsalemby Eau Rouge,Do you have a back up/Time Machine.
If not you may have to do Internet Recovery, read this article from Apple Support.
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Jan 7, 2016 9:27 AM in response to loydfromsalemby BobTheFisherman,Just a FYI, iOS does not run on your computer. iOS is the operating system used by iPhone, iPad.
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Jan 7, 2016 9:30 AM in response to loydfromsalemby Grant Lenahan,Have you tried your recovery partition first?
Boot the machine while holding option key. It will show you all possible boot drives.
Unless your drive itself failed. You were pretty vague about "do nothing"
Grant
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Jan 7, 2016 9:55 AM in response to BobTheFishermanby Eau Rouge,Oh yeah he mentioned it in the title, a wee mistake.
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Jan 7, 2016 9:55 AM in response to Eau Rougeby BobTheFisherman,Eau Rouge wrote:
Where does he mention iOS
Are you serious?
"I have totally crashed my iOS operating system on my desktop. How do I download a fresh copy onto SD card and boot to that to reinstall "
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Jan 7, 2016 9:56 AM in response to BobTheFishermanby Eau Rouge,Yeah didn't notice it in the title, he didn't mention it in his post
no need to shout bob, no fish today.
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Jan 7, 2016 9:56 AM in response to Eau Rougeby BobTheFisherman,Eau Rouge wrote:
Oh yeah he mentioned it in the title, a wee mistake.
NP
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Jan 7, 2016 9:57 AM in response to Eau Rougeby BobTheFisherman,Eau Rouge wrote:
Yeah didn't notice it in the title, he didn't mention it in his post
no need to shout bob, no fish today.
I'm not shouting I copied the title including the font.
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Jan 7, 2016 10:00 AM in response to loydfromsalemby JimmyCMPIT,to reinstall from an SD card or other device see this article from Apple
How to install OS X on an external drive connected to your Mac - Apple Support