Kit comes with a very simple set of written as well as video instructions that you can use to recover, reinstall or upgrade your Mac’s Operating System and you can feel free to reach out at any point if you need any assistance. You are paying for the SanDisk flash drive itself, the instructions, service of formatting the USB drive particularly to make it bootable for Macs as well as assistance with issues you encounter during installation. If not, you are out of luck but this Recovery kit will help you if you are facing any of the issues mentioned. You can only download certain versions of Mac OS if you had them previously installed on your Mac. Apple has removed your outdated Mac's ability to recover outdated OS.

That’s because they don't want people to reinstall OS X or repair their Mac’s without going through them. Your Mac may not have received an upgrade from Apple or may have had its ability to perform an Online Recovery removed. I’ve created this item to help people recover or upgrade their Macs on their own. If you don't know which version of OS X / macOS works best for you, send me a message with your mac’s model and year and I'll help determine which one will perform best. MacBook : Late 2008 (Aluminum) - Mid 2010Īll other Macs made earlier or later then the dates shown above will not be capable of running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Maybe you could share exactly what MacBook Pro version this is.and we can verify what macOS versions are compatible with it (if you don't already know).OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion Compatibility List (Officially Supported): Do you REALLY need to install macOS 10.7 Lion on this older MacBook Pro.or will a slightly newer macOS work too? If you can't get a macOS installed via Recovery.then the 2nd & very common route to go is make a bootable USB thumb drive macOS installer (the macOS version is up to you.as long as that version is compatible with this MacBook Pro). Thus Lion & Mountain Lion should be available for free.Īnyways.

This used to be an issue doing a macOS reinstall on really old Apple computers (the solution was users still needed to purchase these macOS versions many years later).īut according to Wikipedia.as of last year (June, 2021).Lion & Mountain Lion were finally made freely available for all users.

macOS 10.7 'Lion' was one of the last macOS versions users had to purchase (10.8 Mountain Lion was the last pay-for macOS).

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