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Os x utilities menu
Os x utilities menu













os x utilities menu

Recovery Mode is possible thanks to the installation of a hidden recovery partition on your Mac’s hard drive and allows the user to perform the aforementioned tasks without needing a macOS DVD or USB installer. You can let go of the keys when you see a screen similar to the screenshot below. Keep holding as your Mac boots, which may take a few moments depending on its specific configuration. To use Recovery Mode, reboot or start your Mac and hold the Command and R keys simultaneously on your keyboard as you see the iconic white Apple logo against a black screen. Read more about erase, macOS, mode, operating system, OS X, partition, recovery, reinstall.Starting with the release of macOS Lion in 2011, Macs have offered a Recovery Mode that users can access to diagnose hardware issues, restore Time Machine backups, manage hard drives, and even reinstall macOS itself. When the installation has finished the Mac should automatically restart itself and take you to its Setup Wizard which will ask you a series of questions to guide you through initial setup of your Mac.

  • Click the Continue button and then follow the prompts to reinstall the Mac operating system.
  • If your Mac is running macOS Sierra or newer then click on Reinstall macOS. Select your Wi-Fi menu and, if needed, enter the password needed to connect to this wireless network.

    os x utilities menu

    Click on the Wi-Fi menu icon which appears in the upper right corner of the Mac’s screen.You’ll be returned to the main OS X Utilities window.When you have finished erasing the hard drive, click on the Disk Utility menu and select Quit Disk Utility.You will be warned that everything will be removed from the hard drive and that this is permanent. Click the Erase button and follow the prompts to erase the hard drive.It’ll be listed in the left-hand side of the Disk Utility window. Typically the hard drive is named Macintosh HD but yours could have a different name. Click on your Mac’s internal hard drive.Click on Disk Utility and then click the Continue button.When the Mac has completed its startup, you should see a window similar this one:.Your Mac is now starting up in Recovery Mode. Once you see the Apple logo appear in the middle of the screen you can release the Command and R keys.This instructs the computer to startup from the Recovery Partition. Turn on the Mac and immediately press and hold down both the Command key and the R key.















    Os x utilities menu