In some situations you may require reinstalling in OS X, This can be done easily because now all the modern Mac OS X has internet recovery Feature which makes you to reinstall via internet boot type of mode which can be accessed through internet rather than local drive.
There are two modes of system recovery namely Local recovery disk of partition and other mode is named as internet recovery. From this both modes you can re-install OS X, but the version of OS X installed in the Mac is different depending up on the type of recovery mode on the Mac.
Recovery HD partition mode will be reinstall most on the current version of OS X which is currently installed on Mac device where as the internet recovery mode is used to reinstall the version of OS X that was originally came with Mac. This article provides you the clear information about how to re-install OS X with internet recovery mode on Mac.
How to re-install OS X using internet recovery mode
To use this mode you need have Internet access, if your Mac device is not able to connect to the internet then it is impossible to download the Operating system. You can start internet recovery re-install process either by shutdown the Mac or re-booting the device. The process is similar for all the Mac device includes iMac, MacBook Pro, Macbook Air etc
- Once after hearing the Mac boot sound, Hold down command + Option + R until Apple logo appears, if not you need to reboot again and repeat this step.
- This step is optional you may or may not see an option to join the WiFi network this depends on Mac device whether you saved networks on your OS X or not.
- When you see the spinning global icon that means you entered with a message saying it can take a while and the process bars appears as recovery functions are downloaded.
- Once you are done with download, you will see the familiar OS X utilities screen choose the reinstall OS X to begin the reinstallation OS X Operating System.
- Select the destination and complete the installation of the OS X as usual you do
- That’s it.
