Restore with out recovery disk

I bought a Imac year built late 2009 version 10.11 OS X Capitan. I follow instruction how to eraser and restore after, I follow thought step by step until where it ask to sign in my apple ID, and it have error msg pop up( this Item not available as this time) anybody can help what it meant and how can I passby it or any other way I can make my computer work again.

Posted on Aug 26, 2018 8:55 PM

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Posted on Aug 30, 2018 8:26 AM

Have you ever downloaded El Capitan using your Apple ID? Do you have the disks that came with the computer? If so, boot off of them and install an OS to get a working computer.


If you have access to another Mac, sign into the App Store using your Apple ID and download El Capitan using the link below. Quit the installer. You can make a bootable USB stick to install using these free programs which will do all the work for you. Boot from that and install the OS.


Bootable USB Flash Drive – Diskmaker X Disk Creator oruse Apple’s method Create a bootable installer for OS

You can try to download it at the link below. If it won't let you, find an older computer where you can download it using your Apple ID.


El Capitan

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Aug 30, 2018 8:26 AM in response to jenny huuynhle

Have you ever downloaded El Capitan using your Apple ID? Do you have the disks that came with the computer? If so, boot off of them and install an OS to get a working computer.


If you have access to another Mac, sign into the App Store using your Apple ID and download El Capitan using the link below. Quit the installer. You can make a bootable USB stick to install using these free programs which will do all the work for you. Boot from that and install the OS.


Bootable USB Flash Drive – Diskmaker X Disk Creator oruse Apple’s method Create a bootable installer for OS

You can try to download it at the link below. If it won't let you, find an older computer where you can download it using your Apple ID.


El Capitan

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