Anyone get the feeling that Apple is trying to consign the optical disc to an early death? The latest Mac Mini comes with no optical drive included, while its latest revision of OS X – Lion – can only be bought pre-loaded or as a 4GB download from the Apple Store.

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Lion then installs its recovery files to a hidden partition on your hard drive – these files don't include the full Lion installer, which then has to be downloaded again over your wi-fi or wired network.

If your hard drive physically fails, then you're covered if you bought your Mac pre-loaded with Lion, as it has built-in capabilities to get online to recover the recovery partition (and subsequently the Lion installer files if you're installing from scratch as opposed to recovering a Time Machine backup).

If you bought OS X Lion as an upgrade through the App Store, however, your sole option – until now – was less palatable: install Snow Leopard from the disc, update it to 10.6.8 and then download the whole lot again.

Thankfully, Apple has seen the light and realised that this convoluted process is asking too much of upgraders. The end result is this: the Lion Recovery Disk Assistant. It runs on any Mac running OS X Lion with an existing recovery partition – all you then need is a USB disk – hard drive partition or thumb drive – with 1GB free space.

Plug it in, launch the utility, pick your chosen drive and click Continue to create the disk. Note that if you want to use the drive for uses other than a pure recovery disk, you'll need to create a 1GB partition on the drive using Disk Utility first – see this Apple KB article for details.

Once done, you'll be able to recover Lion to a brand new hard drive without having to go through the whole palaver of installing Snow Leopard first.

Once the new, hidden recovery partition has been created the drive is ready for use. Should you ever need it, reboot your Mac with the drive plugged in, then hold down the [Option] key and select Recovery HD from the Startup Manager. You'll then have access to all the usual recovery options: reinstall Lion, Disk Utility, restore from a Time Machine backup and browse the web with Safari.

Ideally, when you sell a Mac (pre-Lion OS 10.7), you should include Apple installer disks for the OS with it: the original disks that came with the machine, if you still have them, and also any disk for subsequent upgrades. If you do buy either replacement Leopard disks for that machine, if available, or a retail Snow Leopard. What Is an OS X Recovery Disk? The OS X Recovery Disk is a native but hidden recovery volume on your Mac hard drive. This feature can be used to start up your machine and perform emergency maintenance services such as repairing a corrupted drive by running Disk Utility, surf the Internet to assess the problem you might be experiencing or download any necessary updates.

Verdict:

An essential download for all Mac OS X Lion upgraders who want a recovery option that doesn't involve reinstalling and updating Snow Leopard first.

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You can upgrade to OS X El Capitan from OS X Snow Leopard or later on any of the following Mac models. Your Mac also needs at least 2GB of memory and 8.8GB of available storage space.

MacBook introduced in 2009 or later, plus MacBook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008)
MacBook Air introduced in late 2008 or later
MacBook Pro introduced in mid 2007 or later
Mac mini introduced in early 2009 or later
iMac introduced in mid 2007 or later
Mac Pro introduced in early 2008 or later
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/my-cant-my-mac-download-renpy-sdk/. To find your Mac model, memory, storage space, and macOS version, choose About This Mac from the Apple menu . If your Mac isn't compatible with OS X El Capitan, the installer will let you know.

Make a backup

Before installing any upgrade, it’s a good idea to back up your Mac. Time Machine makes it simple, and other backup methods are also available. Learn how to back up your Mac.

Get connected

It takes time to download and install OS X, so make sure that you have a reliable Internet connection. If you're using a Mac notebook computer, plug it into AC power.

Download OS X El Capitan

For the strongest security and latest features, find out whether you can upgrade to macOS Catalina, the latest version of macOS.

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If you still need OS X El Capitan, use this link: Download OS X El Capitan. A file named InstallMacOSX.dmg will download to your Mac.

Install the macOS installer

Double-click the downloaded file to open a window showing its contents. Then double-click the file within, named InstallMacOSX.pkg.

Follow the onscreen instructions, which will guide you through the steps necessary to install.

Begin installation

After installation of the installer is complete, open the Applications folder on your Mac, then double-click the file named Install OS X El Capitan.

Click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions. You might find it easiest to begin installation in the evening so that it can complete overnight, if needed.

Allow installation to complete

Please allow installation to complete without putting your Mac to sleep or closing its lid. Your Mac might restart, show a progress bar, or show a blank screen several times as it installs both OS X and related updates to your Mac firmware.

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OS X El Capitan won't install on top of a later version of macOS, but you can erase your disk first or install on another disk.
You can use macOS Recovery to reinstall macOS.

After erasing its internal drive, you didn't do a clean install of some version of OS X before you sold it?

An iMac from early 2009 came with Leopard pre-installed, so it should start up from a retail Snow Leopard installation disc. However, an iMac from late 2009 came with Snow Leopard pre-installed, so it may not start up from a retail Snow Leopard disc, if the version on disc is earlier than pre-installed version. Is the Snow Leopard disc you gave him the one you used to upgrade Leopard to Snow Leopard, on that iMac? In other words, did you ever successfully start up that iMac using that disc?

If this model originally came with Leopard, do you have the original disc that shipped with it (assuming you're the original owner)?

He wants to install Windows on it afterward. Is there a way to run boot camp from where he is?

Boot Camp cannot be installed by itself. It's part of the OS X installation.

If the iMac's hard drive is completely blank, he needs to install Snow Leopard first (using an installation disc). That gives him the Mac App Store, where he can download and install up to El Capitan (for an early 2009 iMac).

Depending on how you erased the iMac's drive, it may still have the hidden Recovery HD partition. He can try using this procedure