#Not able to download mac os x lion mac os x
#Not able to download mac os x lion install
#Not able to download mac os x lion software

Those who havenвЂ™t had the chance to purchase Lion yet and who no longer have the option through the Mac App Store, can still go for the OS X Lion USB Thumb Drive in the Apple Online Store, for $69, MacRumors reports. You should be able to see OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion.vmx. Start VMware Workstation, IвЂ™m using the newly released Workstation 9 here as an example. Your VMware Workstation will now recognize Mac as a new OS.

#Not able to download mac os x lion mac os x

Select Recovery HD from the Startup Manager,вЂќ Apple explains. After you have successfully unlocked Mac OS X Operating System. Within OS X Utilities, choose Reinstall OS X. Prepare a clean external drive (at least 10 GB of storage). The following method allows you to download Mac OS X Lion, Mountain Lion, and Mavericks.

#Not able to download mac os x lion install

To access OS X Recovery, reboot the computer while holding the Option key. Install older OS X onto an external drive. вЂњWhen the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant completes, the new partition will not be visible in the Finder or Disk Utility. This means that there might be a lot of users who would want to be able to download or re-download the older platform to stick to it.ДЄfter downloading the already purchased Lion platform, users can create a Recovery USB Key (or OS X Recovery on an external drive) to have at hand in case needed.ДЇor that, they would need to download the OS X Recovery Disk Assistant, available on Softpedia via this link, insert an external drive, launch the application, select the drive where you want to create the create OS X Recovery, and follow the instructions. If not, either the hard drive is bad somehow or its corrupted and needs to be formatted/erased. Under S.M.A.R.T status, check to make sure it says 'Verified'. In the left panel, click on the top drive (not the partition). The feature should prove a great one for those users who donвЂ™t have top-of-the-line Macs, as Mountain Lion is now compatible with older machines.ДЄs Macworld notes, the list of unsupported devices includes 2006 iMacs, late 2006 through early 2008 MacBooks, 2006 15-inch and 17-inch MacBook Pros, the 2007 Mac mini, the 2008 (original) MacBook Air, 2008 Mac Pros, and the 20 Xserve models Check to be sure that the status of the hard drive is 'Verified'.

Set Base memory (RAM) to minimum of 1GB, if you can afford it set it to 2 or more.

Additionally, users can also re-download the platform, provided that they need to. Set OS Type to Mac OS X and set Version to Mac OS X Server or Mac OS X Server 64 on 64-bit systems (standard Mac OS X is not officially supported in VirtualBox).

#Not able to download mac os x lion software

Thus, those who purchased the software but did not have time to download and install it can now do so. Unfortunately, those who would like to purchase a fresh Lion release wonвЂ™t be able to do so. To see the platform listed there, users will simply have to hold the Option key when clicking on the Purchased tab in the App Store. As soon as the new OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion platform became available for download, Apple completely removed the previous OS X Lion release from the App Store.ДЄt first, the platform appeared to have been removed even from the usersвЂ™ Purchased apps tab, but it appears that Apple did not, in fact, pull it from there.