Monthly manful game. Ahead of time, prepare a bootable USB Flash drive with El Capitan on it. Follow these steps in a great Macworld article by Dan Frakes: ' How to make a bootable OS X 10.11 El Capitan installer drive.
When finished, OS X El Capitan will boot into a brand new clean install, running through the initial OS X setup process on the Mac as if the Mac was brand new. No files, no data, nothing will be on the Mac except for what comes with OS X El Capitan, that is what a clean install is for. Step 1: Firstly, download the macOS installer and connect your USB Drive to your desktop or laptop. Download: macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, macOS Catalina, macOS Mojave, macOS High Sierra or OS X El Capitan. Step 2: Now, connect the USB drive and Format it through the Disk Utility pop-up and open up the Terminal app. Circle of fifths pdf. If unable to use the app store how can i download the El Capitan installer? (I'm already on Capitan and want to do a clean install onto new ssd). Currently downloading in App Store - estimate is 6days and 18h. I'm sure it'll breakdown halfway through. I have a 100mbit connection and can otherwise download stuff.
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I tried to clean install due to issues with Sierra (wanted to revert back to old OS). Best camera app.
Activated erase the Macintosh HD, picked (like idiot I am) the highest erasure mode. It took 10 minutes and nothing moved… I thought I overdid, let's try again – forced shut down to begin anew. (Yes, I am an idiot…)
Opening Mac again using Cmd+R, Macintosh HD was now inaccessible. I tried to recover what I could, but it was gone. Somehow I managed to change it into Apple Disk Image I think – one of the four 'disks' that appears when entering Cmd+R and going to Disk Utility. (Now I had two Apple Disk Images or whatever its exact name was)
I partitioned APPLE HDD and made new Macintosh HD, but that seemed to be empty.
Now I decided it was safest to just call a technician and had him install El Capitan back on and stop being an idiot.
Got my Mac back, it was like first time – appoint my admin user name etc. Those things Mac asks when you get it first time and make it yours.
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I'd like to know: does this sound like clean install was done? If there was (doubt it, but just in case) malware or trojan installed, was it wiped out and system is now clean?