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#Download os x mountain lion iso for free#
If that's not acceptable, please let us know so we can spend our time helping someone who appreciates the effort.Īll you need to do is clone your current install of Mavericks to the new drive. You can use Disk Utility to do that, or the either of two highly respected third party apps SuperDuper!, or Carbon Copy Cloner. All new drives come with the partition map as Master Boot Record (Windows) and formatted as either FAT32 or NTFS (also Windows).
So you need to first completely repartition the new drive with a GUID partition map and formatted as Mac OS Extended. I bougth this licence maybe by error, because in my understanding, Mavericks is for free, but you have to have the previous version running. That is true, but there should have already been something on the Mac. Any version of OS X which is Snow Leopard (10.6.x) or newer can be upgraded to Mavericks without having to purchase and install anything in between. So for example, you can go right from SL to Mavericks without having to install Mountain Lion first. Mavericks is legal for you to install on as many Macs as you own in your own household. if i have a new hard drive, or is damaged, what is the oficial process to setup a Fresh installation of Mavericks?įirst and foremost is preparing the drive for the Mac. As mentioned above, all new drives are setup for Windows.
Covered with your next question: if i need to order media, download iso files, prepare a USB for boot, i will do it.i just need to have the process. There is no media you can order, but you can make your own. Have your downloaded copy of Mavericks on any drive that is mounted. If you installed Mavericks as soon as it was downloaded, then it was deleted at the end of the process and you'll have to retrieve it again. Go into your App Store account under the Purchased tab and click Download for Mavericks. When the entire file has been downloaded to your Mac, it will want to install. The file "Install OS X Mavericks" will be in the Applications folder.
Run DiskMaker X and it will create a bootable, full installer for Mavericks onto the flash drive. You can delete the downloaded file if you want, or copy it to an external drive so you don't have to retrieve a 5.2 GB file again in the future. This all presumes you have enough space on your current SSD for a 5.2 GB download and enough free working space after that. Once the flash drive has been created, put your new SSD in your Mac.