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  • So I thought to myself of factory settings it. It took me to the 4 options. I erased the disk, and went to reinstall osx. (OS X El Capitan 10.11) I click continue, agree, and then click on install. I put in, my Apple ID, it shows ' This item is temporarily unavailable. Try again later.'
  • Once you’ve done that, here’s how to install, reinstall, or upgrade to El Capitan, step by step: Boot from your Recovery HD partition by restarting your Mac while holding down the Command+R keys. The OS X Utilities window appears. Select Reinstall OS X, and click Continue. The OS X El Capitan splash screen appears.

I'm out of ideas… Tried every suggestion I could find on the net, but nothing worked. Hoping someone here has a different idea.

Select the Orange icon (aka a USB stick) labelled El Capitan. If it does not detect it after 10 sec and you only see your hard-drive. Try another USB port and wait 10 sec again. Often it appears then. Once booted, select your language; NOW, CRUCIAL, FIRST THING.

The situation

I'm trying to reinstall OS X (Lion, or higher — which version doesn't matter to me right now) on a Macbook Air, 11-inch, Late 2010 model.

The machine came with OS X Lion pre-installed, and has been upgraded up to El Capitan while I used it.

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I recently decided to give the MBA away. Before doing so, I erased the default system/home partition with Disk Utility in Recovery Mode.

Fonepaw android data recovery registration code and email id. I have now been trying to re-install OS X on the MBA, but didn't succeed.

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Things I tried already

  • Turning on the machine, i.e. regular startup: Bootup stops at question mark screen. No surprise, since the system partition has been erased.

  • Turning on with cmd-R, i.e. regular recovery mode. No visible progress for about 30 seconds, i.e. grey screen, then automatically switch to Internet recovery mode. Seems to suggest that there's no recovery partition, or it's not recognized, right?

  • Turning on with cmd-option-R, i.e. using Internet recovery mode directly. Mac OS X Utilities menus load, no problem here. Selecting option 2, 'Reinstall Mac OS X', I am offered to install OS X Lion 10.7 (the original OS the machine was shipped with). Pressing 'ok' is followed by message 'To download and restore Mac OS X, you computer's eligibility will be verified with Apple'. 'ok', followed by progress report 'Loading Installation Information', then dialog to confirm license agreement, then dialog to select installation disk. After that, I am asked to sign into the App Store. This step is not optional in my case, i.e. I cannot skip the app store sign-in. Once I sign in, installation fails with error message: 'This item is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later.'

  • Checking Disk Utility, I see there's no recovery partition. Not 100% sure why, since I didn't erase it, but given that I got the MBA from someone else as well, it is possible that partition was erased earlier.

  • Last thing I tried: Recovery Disk Assistant on my working Macbook Pro to create recovery USB. Using USB on MBA at boot up leads to the regular boot up progress bar going about halfway, then stopping at an error screen (box with an 'X' inside). Perhaps because the computer I used to create the USB runs El Capitan, while MBA came with Lion.

Summary

Trying to re-install OS X on Macbook Air after erasing default system partition.

Recovery partition missing, so I have to use Internet recovery.

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Internet recovery installation fails as follows:

(1) I am forced to sign into app store when reinstalling OS X Lion (weird, since other people suggest app store sign-in is not necessary when reinstalling original OS). Mujhse dosti karoge full movie youtube in urdu.

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(2) After signing in, I get the error 'This item is temporarily unavailable.'