Lion Installation Error No Recovery
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Learn what to do if the installer reports "OS X could not be installed on your computer" or "This disk cannot be used to start up your computer". When installing OS X, the installer may report one or more of www.apple.com/support/no-recovery to learn more the following: A message appears, "Install Failed: OS X could not be installed on your computer.
The Installer Encountered An Error That Caused The Installation To Fail Mac
OS X can't be installed on the disk Macintosh HD because a recovery system can't be created. Visit www.apple.com/support/no-recovery to learn more." The installer this disk cannot be used to startup your computer el capitan log shows the message, "Recovery system creation failed with error -69713 (The booter/recovery partition must be grown by a larger amount)." You may be presented with an option to select which disk is the target for installation. In some situations,
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the disk you want to upgrade may be labelled "This disk cannot be used to start up your computer." If possible, back up and reformat the target disk before installing. If you aren't able to back up and reformat, try the following steps to resize the partition where you want to install OS X: Restart your Mac from your usual startup disk. Open Disk Utility, located in /Applications/Utilities/ . Select the disk where the volume you intend to upgrade resides. you can't change the startup disk to the selected disk This usually starts with a number representing the total size of the disk. Click the Partition tab. Click and drag the resize corner of your intended install partition to make the size slightly smaller. The blue portion represents used data space. The partition only needs to be approximately 128MB smaller than it was before resizing but it needs to be larger than the blue portion. Example Before: After: Click Apply. When the partition resizing is complete, quit Disk Utility and install OSX. After the OS X installation is complete, you can use Disk Utility to resize the partition back to its original size by dragging the resize corner to make the partition as large as it was before. Last Modified: Mar 22, 2016 Helpful? Yes No Thanks - please tell us how to help you better. Submit Cancel One Moment Please Thanks for your feedback. 10% of people found this helpful. Additional Product Support Information Start a Discussion in Apple Support Communities Ask other users about this article Wait... See all questions on this article See all questions I have asked Still need help? Apple Footer Apple Support Installer reports "OS X could not be installed on your computer" or "This disk cannot be used to start up your computer" More ways to shop: Visit an Apple Store, call 1-800-MY-APPLE, or find a reseller. Copyright © Apple Inc. All rights reserved. Privacy Po
a title. You can not post a blank message. Please type your message and try again. TeamDelperdang Level 1 (0 points) Q: Help I have no Recovery HD wont let me install Mavericks Help! When I try to install Mavericks on my 15 inch MBP i get this "Install
This Version Of Macos 10.12 Cannot Be Installed On This Computer.
Failed: OS X could not be installed on your computer. OS X can't be installed on
An Error Occurred While Preparing The Installation
the disk because a recovery system can't be created. Visit www.apple.com/support/no-recovery to learn more". Please reply in easy to understand instuctions. Thanks everyone! Here macos sierra cannot be installed on null is a pic of my Disk Utility: MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5) Posted on Oct 23, 2013 2:38 PM I have this question too Close Q: Help I have no Recovery HD wont let me install Mavericks All https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203482 replies Helpful answers Page 1 Next by Buzz-On, Buzz-On Oct 24, 2013 10:11 AM in response to TeamDelperdang Level 1 (0 points) Oct 24, 2013 10:11 AM in response to TeamDelperdang Exact same prob. I don't have boot camp. My HD is OS X journaled, GUID partitioned...Can't find any answers. Please help.Thanks! Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this post by SoClueless, SoClueless Oct 24, 2013 10:34 AM in response to Buzz-On Level 1 (0 points) Oct 24, 2013 10:34 AM https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5472935?tstart=0 in response to Buzz-On Same problem. No bootcamp but no recovery system. I don't know what happened to it, as I used to be able to do command -R and it would come up. I am also 10.8.5. I have tried resizing the empty partition numerous times, with and without a reboot, with no luck. OSX journaled, GUID partitioned...Thanks! Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this post by M.rangel, M.rangel Oct 24, 2013 10:40 AM in response to TeamDelperdang Level 1 (0 points) Oct 24, 2013 10:40 AM in response to TeamDelperdang Same Problem. If I press cmd+R while booting I can go into the internet recovery mode. I verified permissions on the disc, repaired them, checked for disc errors and found none. Still I can install mavericks. Could it be that if we reinstall first mountain lion then we can actually upgrade to mavericks? any help would be great!mac mini (mid 2011) OSX journaled, GUID partioned. Helpful (0) Reply options Link to this post by Buzz-On, Buzz-On Oct 24, 2013 11:54 PM in response to M.rangel Level 1 (0 points) Oct 24, 2013 11:54 PM in response to M.rangel I've read in other places that if we could re-install Lion, that would create the recovery partition again, but I can't seem to download it from the App store. I can hit the download button, which goes grey, but nothing seems to start downloading. Can anyone explain why Mavericks c
Start here for a quick overview of the site Help Center Detailed answers to any questions you might have Meta Discuss the workings and policies of this site http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/98150/mac-os-x-lion-to-mountain-lion-upgrade-failed-no-recovery About Us Learn more about Stack Overflow the company Business Learn more about hiring developers or posting ads with us Ask Different Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Ask Different is a question and answer site for power users of Apple hardware and software. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a question Anybody can cannot be answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Mac OS X Lion to mountain lion upgrade failed “NO Recovery” up vote 0 down vote favorite I'm trying to upgrade from OS X Lion 10.7.5 to Mountain Lion. The installation failed with a message stated something about "no recovery" and a link to Apple site with Recovery update. I downloaded the update, but cannot be installed it could not run. Currently, my system is not at the state it was before I started the whole thing. For example, Safari, Disk Utilities, Startup Disk, Security (firewall setting tool), etc. could not start. Also, I used to connect to a NAS smb drive, but it does not show up now. Some other third party apps still work fine, Firefox, etc. Apparently the upgrade process did not do a rollback when it failed. So, what are my options? Edit: I found this article http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 that shows you how to fix this. But it requires the use of Disk Utilities to create an external recovery partition but my Disk Utilities currently would not run. macos lion mountain-lion upgrade recovery share|improve this question edited Aug 6 '13 at 23:47 asked Aug 6 '13 at 22:22 user523234 1115 So what state are you in, what OS, why did the recovery did not work, what was the message or error, what hardware do you have, please provide information to enable someone to give you a answer. How do you do the upgrade, from where, did you try to upgrade again.... HELP :) –Buscar웃 Aug 6 '13 at 2