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majortom42003

macrumors newbie
Original poster
May 10, 2021
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I recently purchased an old Mid 2009 MacBook Pro from a friend, This is my first MacBook and Apple related device in general. He told me I would need to factory reset it so I looked up how to do so, I proceeded to erase the disk with Disk utility, but after doing that I cannot reinstall the OS X at all (El Capitan), every time I try it just says "this item is temporarily unavailable". I'm basically stuck in the OS X utilities menu.

I have no clue at all what to do and I'm growing increasingly frustrated with this so any help would be gladly appreciated.
 

Fishrrman

macrumors Penryn
Feb 20, 2009
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Could you tell us HOW you are trying to install?
Did you create a bootable USB flashdrive?
Something else?

Just to be sure, you know that a 2009 Mac cannot do "internet recovery"... right?
 
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