Some new mac computers arent allowing users to reinstall os x mountain lion. Find out the cause of this issue and how you can fix it. Its not just snow leopard that you can purchase from apples website you can purchase copies of. An error occurred while preparing the installation fix. Apple has issued a second supplemental update for os x mountain lion which fixes keychain issues on 2012 macs. Install from the fresh download, which should contain all of the necessary components. Some new macs unable to reinstall mountain lion cnet. The error message is in danish and translates to something like. Cant download the additional components needed to install macosx discussion in mac os x guest os discussion started by rebelinblue, sep 4, 2011.
Cant download additional components apple community. But if you already own mountain lion and have downloaded it from the apple store then theres a simpler solution. I installed macos but it has a problem cant download. Recovery disk included with macbook doesnt work either. If you get an error message about being unable to reinstall os x. Install or reinstall lion mountain lion from scratch. Clean install of os x lion from usb cant download the additional. The error text is cannot load additional components required to install mac os x. Does anybody know how to get fix this installation issue. Can not download the additional components needed to install mac os x i have also tried to install lion with the usb key and. Questions tagged osxmountainlion ask question os x mountain lion version 10. Some new mac users cant reinstall mountain lion and how. As i searched for your error cant download additional components, etc, one thing that seems to help is to make sure there is 4 gb ram installed, or less.
The case turned out to be a bit kingston 4 gb ram module. From the macbook, connect to the apple store and redownload the mountain lion installer. Big problems with the installation of operating system on imac. Cant download the additional components needed to install. Then i get the error message cant download the additional components needed to install mac os x.
Cannot download additional components for mac os x lion. I am using a bootable mac os x lion installation dvd which is fine and previously worked. Having worked in technical support here at owc for some time now, i have helped customers handle many different types of errors and problems that they have come across. This article is part of our series of articles on installing and upgrading to mountain lion. If you are having problems downloading mountain lion to your new mac from the mac app store, you may not be alone. The latest version of apples mac os x, mountain lion, improves productivity and easeofuse with more than 200 new features.
Hey guys, i was wiping my macbook pro because its a few years old and theres a lot of stuff on there that was making it run a little sluggish. After formatting the drive and starting the install i get a timer stating its going to take 2,393,938,938 and 8 minutes. I have run disk utility a few times and it says my hd is ok so i am just not sure what to do anymore other than just take it to the apple store finally. Cant download additional components to install mac os x. Im a bit of a mac noob so i didnt realise it had deleted the os along with my files. Mac os x lion cannot download additional components. Have fitted a 480gb ssd and tried using the internet recovery to install mountain lion. I got error saying cant download the additional components needed to install mac os x after starting the. Big problems with the installation of operating system on.
Cant download the additional components needed to install mac os x. They installed mac os x lion, mac os x snow leopard on the 2010 macbook pro unibody. However, i get cannot download additional components. An installation error occurs sometimes for when upgrading from os x snow leopard to os x lion cant download the additional components needed to install mac os x check your network configuration as the install needs to pull down software over the internet. The recovery drive will now download additional components necessary. After about 2mins it pops up saying cant download the additional components needed to install mac osx. How to make a clean install of mac osx lion with a usb memory stick.
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