How to Install OS X or macOS onto a new blank Hard Drive (Fresh Installation)
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Many Mac hard drives break down and stop working. If you are upgrading or replacing a Mac hard drive and you don't have an operating system, this video will explain how to get your new Mac hard Drive up and running. This method will work on any iMac, Macbook, Mac Mini, Mac Pro, Macbook Air and Macbook Pro. This video combines three ways of getting an operating system from Apple up and running and covers old OS X and new macOS.
The three methods are:
1. Cloning
2. USB or DVD install
3. Apple Internet Recovery
Here is the link for how to make a bootable OS X USB:
www.gribsoft.com/create-osx-usb
Full transcript can be found here www.gribsoft.com/empty-drive-installation
Transcript (Condensed):
How to Install OS X or macOS onto a new blank Hard Drive
Three ways to do this:
• Cloning - If you have any drive with OS X on it we can clone it onto the new drive.
• USB or DVD - If you have original installation disk or USB, otherwise we will make one.
• Internet Recovery - Using Apples Internet Recovery Option (Requires High Speed WiFi)
Cloning to an empty drive:
If you have access to another Mac the cool thing about Macs is that they use UEFI Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. That means you can take an older Mac OS X hard drive pop it into almost any Mac with a SATA to USB cable or SSD adapter and it will boot (with some exceptions). Then you can clone the drive completely using software like Carbon Copy Cloner (Free). This is a reliable way to get a new drive up and running.
Lets run through these steps quickly and then we will look at the other options:
Get access to any Mac you know the password to, take an old hard drive use the proper adapter to hook it up. In our case we have a 320gb old mechanical drive with a SATA to USB cable. While logged into the Mac, go to appledollars.com/downloads and get Carbon Copy Cloner CCC4 or 5. Move it to the applications folder and select trial. Choose the Macs Internal Hard Drive as Source drive and our USB adapted drive as the destination and clone it. You will have to go through some hoops to give CCC the proper security permissions. The cloning process can be anywhere from 10 minutes to a few hours.
When done, shutdown the mac and plug the cloned drive into your mac that has an empty hard drive. In our case we are plugging it back into our same MacBook for demonstration purposes. As soon as you press the power button, press and hold the Option key. When you get to the drive selection screen, all USB drives are labeled in orange, select the drive that is hooked up by the adapter. Once you boot into the drive open Carbon Copy Cloner, it should be in the Applications folder, run it and select the source drive as the drive that we just booted from and the destination as the new empty drive we installed. Once it’s done running shut down the system, unplug the USB drive and boot up that mac as you would regularly. After the first restart, perform a NVRAM reset.
Now for our USB or DVD option:
If you have original installation disk or USB pop it in, press and hold Option during boot up and select the media manually or the Mac will find the bootable device automatically when powered on. If you don’t have a bootable Mac USB or DVD, watch the video in the description on how to make a bootable OS X drive. Keep in mind that many newer Macs are configured with planed obsolescence and will not boot older OS X operating systems. Create the appropriate OS X or macOS USB for you Mac model. You can look up your models max Operating System level at everymac.com it’s a great resource; they have specifications for every mac model.
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Really appreciate this video. I've done tons of installs over the years using CCC and / or TimeCasule on my own machines, but never a clean install on a new drive for someone else's machine. Trying to help a friend install new SSD and this will help me get the job done.
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@@GRIBSOFT you don't need a clone app to do this. Your disk utility in your Mac can do everything. Just connect the new HDD to the Mac via sata cable. Drag the original HDD to source, drag the new HDD to destination,,, click restore,, if there is error, u then unmount both HDD.... You do it by restarting the system and doing it in recovery
you are a complete legend mate, had been struggling getting a new MacOSX onto my MBP when disk util would consistently fail to see HDD when using usb installer. Fired up my MBP in target disk mode and cloned my iMac HDD onto it with Carbon Clone Copy software. Bingo, worked beautifully. Thanks again.
I personally use it for every installation, I only suggest things that I personally use in the field. I want every viewer of @SaveAppleDollars to learn something useful that saves time and money. I’m glad that it worked for you. Thanks for the supportive comment :)
Thank you brutha. You helped out tremendously after searching around for a couple hours on how to do this
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Been searching for this for days! Thanks!
The only video I've encountered that goes over all 3 methods in a single video. Very well done!!
I can't thank you enough! The idea of changing the date in terminal was a life saver!
Thank you for a great video. I had a Mac Mini that a neighbor had from her son. It did not have the recovery partition or a supervisor account. I formatted the drive but was unable to install a new OS. Your video allowed me to clone my Mac to a usb drive and then boot into the Mini. Success, not to clean it up as if to sell and let her set it up as she needs to. Thanks again, I learned a few things about the issues with newer OS and Carbon Copy and SuperDuper.
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Can not thank you enough for this video! The 3rd option worked perfectly for my needs.
This is the clearest tutorial. First part (cloning) is invaluable.
It is useful if your old HDD still works and you want to upgrade it to SSD
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This guy saved me. Good stuff man! Had error message. Corrected the date in terminal and bang. Wifi install went to work. Thank you!!!!!!
Thank you so much the commands at end of the video helped me put the operating os back on.
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Thanks very much, am trying to do a clean install on new SSD in an old MacBook (install CD roms are lost) and was having a lot of trouble making a thumb drive work. Your cloning method with the software worked great. Many thanks!
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Indeed! I had to restart the process few times, but I finally could install HighSierra from zero!!! Thank you very much!!!
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@HARSH TYMEZ that's sad mate. I tried many times, without a hurry, and it worked, finally. Sometimes you have to force shut down and so... but it should work. I installed it from zero on a new SSD drive, then installed all the stuff I had on the original HD drive.
@HARSH TYMEZ I was thinking on your answer and I just remembered something VERY IMPORTANT. Somehow, the SSD drive couldn't be formated into the new formatting system of Mac OS; but after some tries it's possible. You must format your disk to APFS format instead of the HFS+. Can't remember if related with your problem but I just remembered that. Hope it helps!
Good advice . I have used Carbon Copy Cloner for years . Straight forward easy to use .
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thank you kind sir for the lenghty and meaningful explanation.. I'm basically a new mac user coming from windows pc and currently wanting to upgrade my late 2012 mac mini using ssd but not wanting to do dual drive yet because I don't have the kit. this video helps a lot for me to understand the how to process for doing fresh install os from bootable drive..
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4 year old video and I am going to do this today! I installed a new SSD in my 2017 iMac 5k Retina. I have a Macbook Pro M2 now, but would still love to use my iMac as a secondary. It absolutely will not install Sierra using wifi. So FINALLY ordered a bootable USB and it get's delivered tonight. So glad I saw the date change info...
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Is internet recovery available if I install a new hard drive?
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Recently my macbook air has not been recognizing my external hard drive with my os on it and has just been opening the os on the macbook itself. Do you know how I solve this?
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Is internet recovery (3rd option) working on macbook pro mid 2009? I've been try it but the spinning globe is not showing... the apple logo is the one shown even I press down the correct button.
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Thanks for your great videos. Question. Have the bootable usb done as you showed. All goes well until the end. Gets stuck on apple icon installing, with time remaining text. I have a 2010 MBP. Do I have to have original snow leopard loaded first? If so, why?Ive tried both usb bootable el cap and high sierra. I was able to get catalina patcher on it but it crashed and wont go back on. Ive used all the button options. Thanks again
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Help please! When I put my usb (with the osx) to the mac mini and holding the option key, it didn’t recognise anything, still the only option is the internet. Internet recovery is not working, loading for like 30minutes in 24:00 then says apple/support and -2106F
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who watching this in 2020 use the first method, Thanks so much the first method works.
Thank you for your tip on changing the date and time. I was struggling to install High Sierra onto my 17" Macbook Pro (A1297). The install process stopped with the error Install "MacOS Application is Damaged...". I learned that this was due to an expired certificate. So I used your information to change the Macbook date and time to something shortly after High Sierra, disabled WiFi and tried again. This time the install worked. Thanks again and I hope my information helps someone else with the same problem.
(Internet recovery method) when I go to download the OS X El Capitan, I get (this item is temporarily unavailable.) I’m not sure what to do next. Help!!
For older OS X is down, could it re-upload?
Hi, I have an old iMac mid 2007 with a bluetooth keyboard, will the internet recovery work with the same keys? Thanks.