Hello all,
First time mac user - please excuse any errors in reporting the issue.
I bought a iMac (2008 model) because it was being sold cheap.
The guy that sent me had a password on it (although it was a fresh install of OS X EI Captain).
I tried starting up and using the recovery partition to restore it and it failed because my iCloud account I have does not have a OS X install rights ? the error just says "Temporarily unavailable"
I then tried few steps from the internet from Disk Utility and managed to wipe the Master Disk and load the image from the recovery disk to the master. Now I have NO Operating system and cannot go further.
Since the above happened I spent a lot of time doing these steps.
- Use a USB and download OS X and format it using a tool suggested online and load a DMG image.
- Booting it from USB loads half way and shows a circle with a slash through it and reading about it, it says that is because partitions are not right etc.
I am a bit lost now. Can anyone with experience help me is restoring this system to have a fully working OS X EI Captain and possibly a recovery partition that actually works for the future please?
Appreciate your help.