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Thread ID: 135964 2014-01-03 09:50:00 Bought Secondhand iMac, trouble installing..help please! mark1978 (13845) Press F1
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1364204 2014-01-03 11:42:00 I think I did it..lol....installing Mac OS X on the disk "Macintosh HD"
Time remaining..... about 30 minutes
mark1978 (13845)
1364205 2014-01-03 12:40:00 I think I did it..lol....installing Mac OS X on the disk "Macintosh HD"
Time remaining..... about 30 minutes

How did it go? Next time you are in disk utility check the SMART status of the HDD
plod (107)
1364206 2014-01-03 15:10:00 Like it says in the link WT gave you, you need Snow Leopard, or 10.6.8 then update it to Lion Speedy Gonzales (78)
1364207 2014-01-03 17:54:00 If you can get at least snow leopard (10.6.8) on the iMac then you can upgrade to the latest OS X mavericks (10.9) for free. CYaBro (73)
1364208 2014-01-03 20:56:00 lol...well am in... its running OS X 10.6.8, no idea if its the lastest version or not lol am updating to maverick but its 5.7gb or something...am hoping it will update rather then full install, anyone know/? mark1978 (13845)
1364209 2014-01-03 22:39:00 It will update, yes. Alex B (15479)
1364210 2014-01-03 22:49:00 It will update, yes.

It doesnt look that way.. its not even half way and I am on a satelite broadband plan lol... its just over the half way mark
mark1978 (13845)
1364211 2014-01-03 22:55:00 OK what I mean it it will keep all your docs and settings, it's not a fresh install, its an in place upgrade. Alex B (15479)
1364212 2014-01-03 23:01:00 oh thanks for that Alex B its now over half way :) mark1978 (13845)
1364213 2014-01-04 00:12:00 So what did you do to get the recovery disc to install? plod (107)
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