I have an 08 MacBook A1181 currently running Lion 10.7.5. When I installed this drive I had to start with the OEM restore disks and build up from there to 10.7.5. The problem I had at the time is the Snow Leopard and Lion disks are both upgrades and not stand-alones. They would not run unless the OS was updated to a version the respective upgrade would recognize as valid. I prefer not to buy anything for this task and it's my hope that there is a way I can make a USB restore image of where it is now.

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Bets vpn for mac. I need to pull the 750 Gb out and replace with smaller one. I would love doing it without going through the In-a-gadda-da-vida upgrade process I did before. The new drive is well scrubbed and I prefer not to use Time Machine to do it. Can anyone please help with this problem? I know there has to be a way to get there from here. If nothing easy, can I spoof the installed version IDs in Single User mode?

I appreciate any help on this. You should be able to download the installer for the latest compatible version from the App Store. The file will be downloaded to your /Applications folder. Do not run the installer itself. We're assuming Lion for this guide.

Procedure can differ slightly between versions. Instead navigate to your /Applications folder. Right-click (or control-click) on the “Install Mac OS X Lion.app” & select “Show Package Contents”.

Then navigate to the “Contents” directory then “SharedSupport”. Double-click on “InstallESD.dmg” to mount the Lion disk image. If you have anything stored on the USB flash drive you’re going to lose it, so be prepared for that and back it up. Plug the USB flash drive into your Mac. Trs80 emulator mac. Launch Disk Utility (Command + Space then type disk utility).

Select your USB drive from the left side of Disk Utility, then click on the “Erase” tab. Choose “Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” as the Format click “Erase” to format the USB drive. Right-click on the new partition for the USB drive in Disk Utility & select “Restore”.

Now you need to set the source disk for the restore. This is why we mounted the InstallESD.dmg file earlier, because we can just drag and drop the “Mac OS X Install ESD” image into the “Source”. Drag the formatted USB key to the “Destination” and check “Erase destination”. Be sure you have the right things in the right places, you don’t want to format the wrong drive! Then click on “Restore”.

Once that process completes you will have a bootable USB drive with installation media for your OS.

Hi Italiabella, That's really nice of you to help your friend out and make sure that you don't frustrate yourself too much I'll help you every step of the way. First, on Macs you really don't need wipe it like you would on a Windows machine. With that in mind I hope you haven't wiped it clean and reinstalled the OS, but if you did that's not a big problem. So, if your friend is having a problem with her Mac I would suggest perform some basic cleanup drills: Open Finder/Applications/Utilit ies/Disk Utility/ click on your HDD to the left and then hit 'Repair Disk' or 'Repair Disk Permissions' Next, let's make this easy and use an all in one cleaning app: If your friend has a bit of money and wants a professional tool to keep her Mac in top shape then buy this: If its not worth it then a really good free cleanup app is here: Both of these applications are pretty easy to use but if you need help just repost. Moving on, if you need to free up some space for her on the HDD use this free app: Diskwave will show you the applications that are taking up your space and allow you to drill down into the directory where the file(s) are and delete them.