It’s important to note too, that recovery mode wasn’t introduced until after OS X Snow Leopard, so if you have anything older than that, you’ll need to use your original OS X DVD to reinstall the operating system. Here, we’ll look at some of the most common and what you can do about them. There are many reasons why recovery mode might not work. Either way, you won’t be able to recover macOS, which could easily stop you from using your Mac if it has a major issue. Either your Mac won’t boot into recovery mode at all or, if it does, it doesn’t work properly.
There are two main problems you might encounter with recovery mode. You get one free fix, so you’ve got nothing to lose.
To see it for yourself, download it for free now. Running a full MacKeeper scan can clear your Mac of malware, adware, junk files and more. Restart your Mac and see if the problem is still there.With MacKeeper’s Find & Fix, you can check your Mac for a wide range of problems and then easily fix them. If you’re looking to recover your Mac because you’re having issues with macOS, it’s best to try fixing them first. So what do you do when the Mac recovery mode won’t work? What are your options to get your Mac up and running again? In this guide, we’ll look at some of the reasons recovery mode might fail and how you can potentially get around them. In such situations, it can be a lifesaver. But sometimes, things can go wrong with macOS that are difficult or practically impossible to fix without it. So thanks for the efforts, but this particular file is not complete.Hopefully, you won’t have to use your Mac’s recovery mode too often, if at all. It appears other versions of 10.6 are larger than this 5.2 GB file.
So if you do not have the very specific install discs for your very specific Apple hardware product, you might not have the correct drivers.
In addition, not all Mac OS X discs are the same even if they have the same version numbers because drivers for devices installed in the iMac are sometimes different than drivers for devices in a MacBook Pro, for a Mac Mini, vs other Apple products. And without the correct Bootcamp WINDOWS drivers installed in your Windows version, it will not be completely functional. And all efforts to find a way to install Bootcamp Windows drivers without the original UNTOUCHED 10.6 Retail DVD have failed. But that is what is missing from this 10.6 DVD. If the Windows partition is present on the DVD, then the Bootcamp SETUP.EXE file will appear and all is good. Then following the prompts you install your Windows OS.Īfter the Windows OS is installed you are supposed to remove the Windows DVD you are using, then insert this Mac OS 10.6 DVD again while you are within Windows. Then run the Bootcamp Assistant in the Mac OS Utilities folder. To install Windows, you first install the Mac OS.
But to install the Windows partition this IMG file is incomplete. So if your goal is the Mac OS only, this is fine. What I suspect happened is that this disc copied the Mac OS partition correctly but did not copy the Windows partition correctly. However, when I went to use the Bootcamp Assistant to install Windows, the Bootcamp Windows drivers were missing and it seems impossible to download them independently. Burned to a DVD-DL and worked like a charm to install the Mac OS.