Problems with OSX Internet Recovery

Scottland · 29 Jul 2013 at 23:31

Hi,

I'd been having issues with booting upto OSX following a system update, so decided to opt for a recovery. I ran the internet recovery, and had the "spinning globe" up on screen while it downloaded. Following a reboot, I get a folder icon with a question mark up on the screen (they typical grey booting screen).

I'm unable to use cmd + R to get into the system recovery, I've run the internet recovery twice now and got the same thing.

To be honest, I have my suspicions about the hard drive (despite only being a month old) but I wanted to check there's nothing else I can do?

It's a late 2012 Mac Mini

Cheers

slinxy · 30 Jul 2013 at 06:15

Seems that the pxe boot is not downloading correctly or like you said the hdd is pants.

Try manually wiping the hdd with OSX disc, or even a windows/hiren disc.

Scottland · 30 Jul 2013 at 07:09

I'd already done that in the recovery via disk utility - although I did leave the recovery partition intact. I have another hard drive arriving so I can try that to be sure.

Deleted member 77746 · 30 Jul 2013 at 16:28

You may require to do a PRAM reset.

https://support.apple.com/kb/PH4405

Scottland · 30 Jul 2013 at 17:44

I had tried that before the internet recovery, but I'll give it another go and see if it helps.

Deleted member 77746 · 30 Jul 2013 at 17:49

Could you not download OSX ML and do a usb boot ?

Scottland · 30 Jul 2013 at 19:06

Seems to be installing ML ok now after a PRAM reset. Is there any software I can use to test the hard drive once I have it up and running?