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All them Apple FanBois told me this only happens on Windoze machines.
You must be using an iWindows machine and confusing it with a iMac?
Yeah, that must be it.
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I must disappoint (someone).
I bought my Mrs. an refurbished HP laptop (Win7 pro). As fodder for the iFanboys, the immediate windows 7 upgrade it was fed put it in the land of BSOD.
On the other hand, the recovery partition worked perfectly - in fact, it was a better install than the original as it didn't include some of the bloatware (line Office 365 'trial').
I still preferred restoring DOS when the system went down - but they pretty much never did.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Strange. I won't insult you with the old standard "Gee, it works fine for me!" BS.
My iMac is old enough (2009) that it doesn't offer the internet recovery so I've always made a bootable recovery USB as soon as I've updated from 10.x to 10.x+1. It worked OK the one time I've used it.
Because I'm the paranoid type I use Carbon Copy Cloner[^] to maintain a bootable clone of my HD as well. It works amazingly well.
I know none of this helps you now but it might help for the future once you get this straightened out.
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Normally I would have used something like Carbon Copy, but in this case I simply wanted to nuke the machine and start fresh.
Nuking the machine was easy. Starting fresh just isn't happening. It should happen, and I'm sure if all the parts worked it would be super-smooth, but it seems with Apple that they very much believe that things won't fail, so there's no fallback, no work in trying to diagnose issues, present alternatives, or give you a hint that would allow you to dig in yourself.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yeah, I tend to find more/better help using Google that leads me to sites like iMore, MacRumors and AppleInsider for technical guides and how-to's.
I'll assume you already tried something like this[^] but it failed without error codes. That sucks.
I have a bootable Yosemite USB recovery stick I can send you if you want. 
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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This is bit of a pain but take it in to Apple genius bar - you have free support for life of the product - they'll reload it for you off their network for free so long as you have a lic key for the OS - I think that they can look it up (from memory).
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Graeme_Grant wrote: so long as you have a lic key for the OS
Hmmmm? I don't recall OS X having a license key. 
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Graeme_Grant wrote: I think that they can look it up (from memory).
They must be amazing if they can memorise and recall every one of the tens of thousands of license keys that they have issued.
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Not in the "Windows" sense. If you didn't buy or upgrade to it, then you will need to - Apple track EVERYTHING!
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That's almost where I'm up to, but that would be conceding defeat.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Considering the time already spent it would be a more cost-effective solution rather than defeat. Then you can take a disk image of a clean OS install for the next time...
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I agree - take it to the shop already.
In numerous years of Mac tinkering, I've never had this kind of problem - generally the reinstall just works. Perhaps there is some other problem?
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Chris Maunder wrote: Rainbows and butterflies appear while you are doing this.
Seriously? So much better than a boring boot from a Linux DVD 
Chris Maunder wrote: I weep tears of frustration
Sometimes there's a reason for being "the road not taken".
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: Sometimes there's a reason for being "the road not taken".
"And I, I took the one less travelled by and it still managed to f*** things up gloriously."
Or something like that!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Are you sure this isn't Windows 8?
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VAX/VMS... I miss those days...
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That's what I used at university - there was a certain beauty to them.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 14-Jul-15 3:42am.
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Have you tried turning t off and on again?
PooperPig - Coming Soon
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It just works.
Once you lose your pride the rest is easy.
In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you. – Buddha
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Do you mean 'it only just works'?
I may not last forever but the mess I leave behind certainly will.
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Chris Maunder wrote: ou need to connect to the AppStore
This kind of thing is driving me crazy...
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At least you don't need iTunes 
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St Norton Ghost fools even the hardiest of the OS. Or Clonezilla if you feel more like it, it's almost the same.
Geek code v 3.12 {
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
}
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Haven't you guys discovered 12 Bore Shotguns yet?
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Double confusing of this story is that OS X just a clone of UNIX - the system where EVERYTHING can be fixed unless your drive is dead! Let's say thanks to all gays in Apple who "thinks different" - they made normal OS absolutely unrecoverable by normal user.
I have one useless hope - apple customers STUDY AT LAST(!) that Apple is not a company to buy products from. Just forget 'em. And never moan if you did.
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