Mac Error This Software Cannot Be Installed On This Computer
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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
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up your computer". When installing OS X, the installer may report one or this version of macos 10.12 cannot be installed on this computer. more of the following: A message appears, "Install Failed: OS X could not be installed on your computer. OS X
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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 log shows the message, "Recovery system creation failed with error you can't change the startup disk to the selected disk -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, 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 www.apple.com/support/no-recovery to learn more 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. 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 feedb
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Sign in to make your opinion count. Sign in 1,493 25 Don't like this video? Sign in to make your opinion count. Sign in 26 Loading... Loading... Transcript The https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203482 interactive transcript could not be loaded. Loading... Loading... Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jul 6, 2013Have you ever tried to install OS X on your Mac and got a message that says "This software cannot be installed on this Computer?" Well, here is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngJ9q9wHcS0 how to correct that. I'll walk you through copying the disk to an image on your computer, then making changes needed to the script, and burning it to a new CD. Category Education License Standard YouTube License Show more Show less Loading... Advertisement Autoplay When autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically play next. Up next OS X 10.4 Tiger, It is Obsolete Yet? - Duration: 7:10. The 8-Bit Guy 91,126 views 7:10 12" iBook G3 in MINT CONDITION! - Duration: 21:02. BBISHOPPCM's World 11,603 views 21:02 Ultimate Battery Backup Hack/Mod. - Duration: 10:12. The 8-Bit Guy 1,801,292 views 10:12 How To Make An Operating System - Duration: 8:31. Tinkernut 937,469 views 8:31 The History of Operating Systems - Duration: 6:48. Computing Forever 154,143 views 6:48 VHS Tapes - Were they as bad as we remember? - Duration: 9:19. The 8-Bit Guy 304,729 viewsNew 9:19 Hacking the Apple TV 1st Generation - Duration: 7:47. The 8-Bit Guy 517,676 views 7:47 2017 Chevy Volt or Tesla Model 3? Review of Volt. - Duration: 18:57. The 8-Bit Guy 464,07
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