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Erased HD via recovery mode, now can't install MacOS

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bradpitch92

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Feb 5, 2014
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I have a mid-2009 MBP (i know) and I wanted to erase and reinstall Mac OS to hopefully improve performance and also get ready sell/remove from service (wanted all personal info erased). I went into recovery mode and erased the HD and then tried to reboot it and it failed during reinstallation of the Mac OS X. I'm pretty sure I had El Capitan (the latest supported OS with a mid-2009 MBP. I will show you the errors I received during attempted reinstall, as well as what my disk utility looks like. I have no idea why it's failing, but I also tried to download the installation software onto a thumb drive to use as a startup disk, but for some reason I am unable to download the software from this Apple site (I'm using my other MBP, a mid-2012, to try to download the installation software from the Apple site). Any idea what I'm doing wrong or what else I could do?

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bradpitch92

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Feb 5, 2014
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Ok, i'll try that.

Do you know where I can find a download link of El Capitan or an earlier OS?
 
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bradpitch92

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Feb 5, 2014
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Sorry I can't download that because my MBP is a mid 2012 that runs High Sierra. Is there any way to get my machine to download El Cap or earlier OS?
 
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BeatCrazy

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bradpitch92 said:
Sorry I can't download that because my MBP is a mid 2012 that runs High Sierra. Is there any way to get my machine to download El Cap or earlier OS?
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Your 2012 is compatible with El Cap, even though it’s on High Sierra. Just follow the instructions on the link I provided.
 
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