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Raxeal Author

Level 1

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Second hand MacBook but can't install

Hi everyone,

I'm an IT student who has worked with Windows for all his life and I want to know more about apple and osx.

So I bought a second hand macbook, but it still has OS x lion installed, or well it did untill the seller wiped the drive.

Now when I try to install OS x lion fresh it says the article is unavailable.

I do not have a spare Apple product to use and I would like to end up with El Capitan, what is my best course of action?

It's a medio 2008 MacBook 15"

Posted on Jun 24, 2019 11:31 PM

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QuickTimeKirk

Level 10

125,971 points

Posted on Jun 25, 2019 4:19 AM

You never purchased Lion with your own Apple ID so you can't install it.

Your only option is to buy Snow Leopard on a DVD from the Apple Store, upgrade it to 10.6.8 and then use the App Store (on the Mac) to download El Capitan,

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