Installation

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silviodc82 Author

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Installation

Hi Guys,

I have a old

MacBook (13-inch, Mid 2010)

2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3MB on-chip shared L2 cache

1066MHz frontside bus
2GB (two 1GB SO-DIMMs) of 1066MHz DDR3 SDRAM

Few weeks ago I received a msg to upload it with new El capitan .

It was strange because I was running with snow leopard and I thought I COUDN'T INSTALL a new software.

Anyway ....I started to download El capitan and configurated it

On the middle of the installation an error msg appeared asking to restart the installation.

I tried to reinstall it few time without success.

I Formatted the mac and I tried to install the old snow leopard (I lost the original disc)downloaded from internet with no luck.

Even using "get help online" doesn't help.

I have not a backup.

In conclusion when I turn my mac I'm in MAC OS X UTILITIES.

NO one of this 4 options is working............

Help meeeeeeeeee

thanks,

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Posted on Jun 15, 2016 1:10 AM

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Answer 1

Jun 15, 2016 7:58 PM in response to silviodc82

El Capitan will certainly run on a 2010 Mac. 2GB RAM is in reality too little for it to run. It will run but there won't be room to run anything else. I think 4 GB as a real minimum and 6 or 8 GB if you plan on using the computer for anything like video, gaming, or running 10 applications at a time. I use Mavericks with 8GB and just running iTunes and a few applications plus web browsing takes up 5 GB.

Current OSX general upgrade information, including system requirements - http://www.apple.com/osx/how-to-upgrade/

El Capitan

General Requirements

OS X v10.6.8 or later

2GB of memory

8.8GB of available storage

Providing the error message would help diagnose the problem.

Installing an operating system without backing up the computer is living dangerously as you are finding out the hard way. Anyway, if you formatted your computer you erased everything on it already.

Snow Leopard is not available for download from the Internet except pirated versions. If you use those you might well be installing malware/spyware too.

If you are seeing Mac OSX Utilities it suggests to me you at least have a valid recovery partition installed on the computer. I do not have this on my computer so I can't talk you through what you need to do.

About Recovery Disk Assistant - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4848 - Create recovery disk on another drive for when the Recovery Partition does not work.

About OSX Recovery - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 > Internet Recovery - using the Internet to start when recovery disk partition not available.

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Answer 2

silviodc82 Author

Level 1

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Jun 16, 2016 1:15 AM in response to Limnos

HI,

I tried again today.

Now the OSX installation doesn't work anymore.

Error

An error occured while preparing the instal

try again !!!!

Any recommendation ??

Thanks.

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Answer 3

silviodc82 Author

Level 1

8 points

Jun 16, 2016 1:36 AM in response to silviodc82

I fixed it problem by the terminal......

I'M going to download El capitan again .

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