How to Install macOS Monterey on Older Unsupported Macs, MacBooks, etc.
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
- This video will step you though using OpenCore Legacy Patcher to install newer versions of macOS on older Apple computers that are unsupported. This video shows the process of installing Monterey on a 2010 MacBook Pro, but the same instructions can be used for other computers and other versions of macOS.
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bought an old Macbook Pro 2010 for 25 bucks, in swedish crowns, will save this video for later. thanks!
Good deal! Thanks for watching!
Thank you! I've been trying this for 5 months and it never worked. But this video working on my MacBook 15 2010 perfectly fine❤️ I was a little worried at first.
Glad to help! Thanks for watching!
With OpenCore Legacy i run Monterey on my MacBookPro(2008)... Runs fine!
It's insane a machine that is 15 years old is able to run a new modern OS :) Good Job.
Your voice is awesome man!!! You have to work for cinema o radio o stuff like that.
Thanks, lol. If you want to hear more, you can listen to The FamilyGeekery Podcast.
Thanks for the help!! Was kind of worried for a minute when it asked for 2FA! All it would do is keep spinning waiting for Authentication. I just did a simple restart and it refreshed back to screen. All is good! Thanks!
Thanks for this. It was a lot of help. Ran this on a MBP 7,1. Took a few reboots once Monterey was installed. Kept getting a forbidden sign(o with backward dash through it) along with Apple Support URL but kept rebooting and it eventually jumped into the "new computer" setup on Monterey.
Hi can you tell me what did you do with that few reboots?
@@ahmedgutierrez6369 nothing really. I just kept forcing the shut down but pressing and holding the power button and eventually the load bar filled up completely and it booted up. Iirc. Don’t have notifications on so I just saw this reply.
I decided to take one more run at this. Now trying to do this on the cheap, I used a 16 GB Flash Drive that was purchased from "WISH". Fair well knowing that you may or not have received an item that was a legitimate 16 GB stick. It read 16 but apparently wasn't. I redid this whole procedure using a brand name 64 GB flashdrive and everything worked as it should. Just figured I'd pass this along.
Great advice! I'll never buy any memory products from Wish, lol. Walmart and Amazon for me.
Great Video Chris. IMHO 2012 Unibody MacBooks are the sweet spot for Open Core legacy patcher. I am running Ventura on 3 x 2012 machines including a 2012 Mac Mini. I have found older machines a bit slow. Nothing wrong with HighSierra as long as you have a modern web browser installed, Just don't do your online banking on it. 💻
Hey brother, when u say Dnt do online banking is it because of the security update with the OS!?
@josueperez4274 it's not as big a deal on mac but if you go online with windows xp nowadays, it's very bad. Your computer will very likely be hacked!
Thanks so much it’s still working 2024
Great video, follow all the steps and it works perfect on my old MacBook(13-inch,Aluminum,Late 2008), tooks a long time but works perfect, some times a though that the process was stuck, but not, just let it keep going until finish, remember let it keep going is going to work. thank you for the video
Thanks for watching. Good advice too. Sometimes it gets scary when it looks like its doing nothing, lol
Hey man I've got the same as you
Can you edit videos ,songs and Photoshop on it ?
How much ram do you have ?
Mine has 4+2
Trackpad scrolling doesn't work for me like it used on Yosemite 😢
Please answer me ❤
How does it impact performance adversely? I primarily use mine for typing documents, watching CZcams, and movies. Have you encountered any glitches?
You, good Sir, are a magician. As are the people over at the Legacy Patcher. Followed the guide and it worked with no issues. 2012 MBP. Was stuck on Catalina.
After I'm done do I need to keep the patcher files in the folder where I downloaded them or can I delete them from the drive?
Great keep these great Macbooks Running.
That’s the plan, lol! Thanks for watching!
Awesome video! Thank you! I now feel confident to upgrade my macbook pro 13 2010.
Are u able to upgrade it??
how do you go back to macos catalina (the supported version on my mac)
does microsoft office and youtube videos on google chrome work fine?
how about battery life ?
Tried this on my wife's late 2011 mbpro and it kept saying that the installer was damaged and can't be used to update the system
Thanks I got Monterey now your the best
Hi, very amazing tutorial - I am seriously thinking about upgrading my MacBook Air 2017 to at least to Ventura - it is sad that having Monterey I cannot download Keynote :(
But I have limited internet data transfer - will 20 gb of internet be enough to do whole process ?
I would think so. The average version of macos usually fits on a 8gb thumb drive. Good luck and thanks for watching!
There is no way to install it on the old OS, by upgrading right?
Did you take out your apple account first?
Hi i have a wifi problems any help please on my macbook 2010mid
Got a lot of 3 Macbook Pros (2 x 2011, 1 x 2010) to play with OCLP. Finally jumped in last night to install OCLP on one of the MBP 2011 to Ventura just so that it is stable.
It runs nicer but here is where I stumbled on a few questions that I could not find in Google and wonder if you or anybody else got the same issue and have a solution. And would be nice if you have a future video for them.
1. Was able to make a backup of the OCLP Ventura using Time Machine. But if I reboot and go into Recovery Mode, Restore from Time Machine, it does not see this Ventura backup. Why is that?
2. Instead of going through all the steps again to install OCLP and configure my other MBP, I was trying to clone to another drive and put into the other MBP. Was able to use Disk Utility to clone it. But bootup does not work. Do I need to use the USB and install the EFI again from it?
I created a boot usb with Monterey already from your other clip. So if I already have this what steps do I follow to use this for the Open Core legacy patcher process?
I attempted to do this the other day and follow the steps exactly and when I got to the install process, I got an alert basically saying that the copy of the OS was damaged so, I couldn't install it.
have you solved this issue?
Hi there!)) Will it work with white Macbook A1342 mid 2010 or it will kiill my macbook? (now it works fine with Catalina)
hi there, I have 2011 8.2 trying to download the patcher but the link goes to dory’s ia forum
Also, is there a way to reverse it back to High Sierra?
same question here. how did you manage this?
@@Sgw_Blck I couldn’t. Ended up buying a new MacBook
There's nothing easier than reversing back to High Sierra or whichever macOS version you want.
1°) You can either boot in Recovery Mode and in main menu, choose to reinstall macOS (it might take quite a long time to proceed and requires an internet connection)
2°) or either create a bootable drive USB with High Sierra installer on it (or whichever OS you want) & then boot on this USB stick
3°) or either revert back with Time Machine IF you proceeded to a full back-up of your system & data BEFORE upgrading to Monterey or whatever OS.
And please note that the first solution (via Recovery Mode online) will inevitably reinstall the last version of macOS that your hardware can legitimately support according to Apple' standards (i.e. High Sierra for a MacBook Pro 7.1 mid 2010). To reinstall another macOS, you MUST proceed with a bootable USB drive.
Don't hesitate if you have any questions (how to create the drive USB installer, issues during the install process or post install, etc.)
omg thx sir
You’re welcome! Good luck!
i am on macbook pro early 2011
i went to monterey but what is the best way to revert back to macOS High Sierra?
For me, after choosing the EFI Boot and clicking install Monterey, it just shows the Apple logo, the progress bar gets to a point and stops. I’m trying to upgrade a MacBook 8,2 from High Sierra.
After clicking install on the USB boot option it seems to work for a while until it reboots and just bring me to a completely blank white screen. Unsure where to go from here, for reference im running on a Late 2010 MacBook air with 4GB RAM
From other comments I have read , slugishness can come from not having an ssd drive, and having only 4GB RAM , 8 GB RAM should help a lot ... good luck 🙂
@@sligon00Yes you are right
I have macbook air model 2011, i installed it step after11:48 its taking long time to finish it keeps downloading rebooting for couple hours is that normal .
After installation I have no trackpad found in System Preferences. I tryed to replace it with working one in many ways but no luck. It's irreplaceable.
I need some help, I did this to my macbook pro 2015 and successfully installed the unsupported os. After seeing that the computer was rather slow I wanted to install the last one I installed, Monterrey but now the os does not know that the macbooks is a macbook! There is no support for the trakpad, battery etc. How Can I fullt revert this? Thanks
does this way erase all data? a don't have any external storage to copy my files
There was a mistake with me in the 14:50 minute after taking out the flash Memory and making a restart that does not take off the Mac and give a mark 🚫 and when I inserting the flash also gives a mark 🚫 what happened I don't know please help me please
Hello, I have installed the 2011 Early MacBook Pro computer in the same way, but it stutters, is this normal, thanks
Can i update more? It always show " software update " pls help
It boots back to high sierra after installing montery
Great Afternoon. I did the upgrade, thanks. Unfortunately, mine is running sluggish. Please Help. It seems like High Sierra is still running in the background
I think I could help you
It may depend on what model of Mac you have installed please list your Mac in the comments
Doesn’t work for me…
Hi,
Thanks for the video which was perfectly perfect! However, after installing Office 2021 in my MacBook Pro 2011 Monterey , whenever I select a line on word document to make it italic or so, the entire line gets totally unreadable behind the grey colored rectangle (created from Shift + )😢. Any clues?
did you solve this issue ???
You are stuffed ...buy a new machine and stop messing about.
A little while ago I installed Ubuntu on my 2011 MacBook Pro. I didn’t realize at the time that this open core upgrade was a possibility. Now I’d like to try it out, but I don’t have macOS on my machine anymore. Can I upgrade using the open core installer from Ubuntu? Or do I have to get macOS High Sierra back on my MacBook before I can do that?
I believe you would need to at least use a Mac computer to create the open core boot disk. If you need help getting macOS back on the computer, I have a few videos that show how to do that. Thanks for watching!
Minimum Pen drive required?
Mine are now disabled in 2023..for the macbook mid 2010..
Do you think it would work on IMAC 27 late 2012? 32 RAM , 3,4 GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7 ?
Yes it would. It is on the supported devices list. Make sure you go to the GitHub page to get the latest version.
Thank you so much! I think I will try.@@FamilyGeekery
It’s says failed for me
I did this exact install on my MBP mid 2010 (7,1). Everything seemed ok until I realized it could not find any WiFi networks whatsoever. Tried a lot, still haven't found a solution
have you solved this issue?
@@LinhNguyen-yz7vo Unfortunately I didn't 😔
@@Mtrospectiv so sad, I just wanted to update and hear this from you ,🥲
It’s resolved now there is an update
I am successful on mid 2010
did anyone downloaded APPs like Microsoft office or Adobe and it worked just fine ?
Is their a way i can remove this update and go back to high siera i need my computer for work and im not sure how to remove it please get back to me.
There should be a keyboard combo to reboot in recovery mode, that will install an older version of OSX. Try Option-Command-R at boot
If that works, you’ll want to make sure you have everything backed up that you need to keep. Then you can reformat the drive and install High Sierra fresh.
Does have it be a 16gb plus usb or can it be a SD card ?
I installed it, today, using an external caddy and an old 40-gig SATA drive. I think you can install it with any sort of drive.
I recently tried this method then after a day it booted into going back to high sierra now i can't go back to montery
That’s weird. If you created the boot/install drive and installed Monterey, there should be no way it would boot back into High Sierra.
I've tried this a couple of times, finish making the Boot USB, do the restart with the Option key down, get into Recovery, select Install macOS Monterey, click continue, and nothing...... Any idea where this has gone wrong? Macbook Pro early 2011 with SSD and 8 megs of ram. Thanks
I would try running disk utility in restore and deleting/re-formatting your ssd before installing macOS (assuming you don’t have any data on there you need). That’s my best guess. Let me know how it goes.
@@FamilyGeekery i am facing the same problem and it is still not working after erasing the ssd 😕
@@FamilyGeekery Did that, same result. After Boot with the Option key down I do get the efi icon, selecting it gets a pause then a Black Apple loading screen which takes me to the Recovery Menu. I have the option to install Monterey there, same result, nothing happens. Just out of curiosity I booted the computer with the USB Boot Disk inserted and just let it go without any keyboard input and it does boot to the Monterey Install button, but quickly goes to a Black Apple loading screen and back to the Recovery screen. Gave up for now, still running High Sierra. I tried this on 2 early 2011 Macbook Pro's and got the same result.
Everytime i restart it requires the boot usb despite installing into the internal drive. What might be the problem?
Mine is early 2011 macbook pro and it doesnt work
Why is it telling me i dont have enough free space???
I had this issue and I suspect you have just installed an SSD. So if that's the case, I would recommend getting your SSD working with High Sierra first and then trying this tutorial!
For me it did not work 😢 I think it was because I did not do it properly 😅
I will try this again next time