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#Mac os x lion installer install#
You would be free to install from your own computer as long as you use the Apple ID your friend applied the code to. If you email someone with a Mac you trust with the info, they can access app store from their computer, login as your Apple ID, apply the credit (instructions are in the email they send you), and log back out. Your issue is that you have no OS "credited" to your Apple ID. At that point, you need to figure out a way to apply it to your desired Apple ID (no, just buying it through your apple ID doesn't work, you actually have to redeem it at the Mac App Store on you computer (which you don't have access to because you wiped your hard drive (same issue as me))).
They send an email within a few days and you can get your redeem code. Have you purchased a new license for OS X Mountain Lion? You can get it here: It might be something as simple as calling tech support, explaining your issue, and having them apply the credit to your account. Well, I'm saying that you have to find a way to register the OS with your Apple ID.
#Mac os x lion installer update#
Unfortunately, I don't have the original installation dvd:s, so I have to install the OS through internet (or if it is possible, by downloading the OS to an external hard drive, and then installing through that).Īnyways, my macbook pro is bought in the mid 2010's, maybe that information can help? I don't know what the last OS X update I used was. I don't know what to do, since I have tried redoing these steps on multiple occasions this day, and with two different networks.
However, after trying to install the OS X, and entering an apple id (my brother's, since his id worked - probably because he used his id when installing the OS X on this computer the first time), an error message pops up, saying: Reinstall the Mountain Lion OS X through internet. Choose Utilities -> erase Macintosh HD (or in my case, it was called macbook pro)ģ. After my macbook pro had become really slow the past days, I decided to reset the system, following the usual steps:Ģ.
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