Q: Recovering mountain lion over Internet - "object currently not available"
I am not able to get OS X in after a disk crash - any suggestion to what I can do?
When the harddisk crashed on my iMac 27" mid 2011 (EMC no 2429) I installed a new disk, and started the machine while pressing Control+R. The display then showed me a spinning globe for a couple of minutes with the text "Starting recovery over Internet" which ended when a dialog whith four options appeared. I started using the function to Erase/(format?) the disk. As I don't have a Time Machine copy to recover from, I then selected the function for "Installing Max OS X again" (not sure of the English wording - I translate it from Norwegian). The installer starts and asks me to click Continue for "Confguring the installation of Mac OS X 10.7". A message appears and disappears about Apple having to confirm that the computer is authorised for the operation. Next I choose the new disk as the target for the installaion and is then requested to log on to App Store with my Apple ID. I don't get any feedback about being authorized, but the log-on window closes and after some seconds the process ends with the words "The object is currently not available. Try again later."
Of course I have tried the installation procedure several times, and as I don't see how I should be able to decipher why I get the last message I am afraid that I will not be able to install over Internet.
Google helps me in finding proposals indicating that it's possible to download the OS from Apple Store and put in on a USB stick that is made a bootable drive. These proposals, however, have in common that this is done on a "live" computer - either the one where the OS is going to be re-installed or any other Mac that I own. Apart from a 2006 iMac with a crashed disk I don't have any other Mac. Any suggestions how I can achive having a bootable USB drive with the OS? (Mountain Lion or a newer OS X version)
By the way, after logging on to my Apple account I was able to verify that the serial number of the computer was associated to me as the owner of the computer. Still I wonder if the internet installation fails because the Mountain Lion was purchased/intalled by the previous owner of the computer - which I bought second-hand about three years ago. I was however not able to find any registration of what software I had downloaded - and then also no confirmation of my faint memory of having upgraded to a later version of the OS X since I bought it.
I shall wait in excitement for an interesting answer!
iMac (27-inch Mid 2011), Mac OS X (10.7), null
Posted on Mar 11, 2016 7:44 AM