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krawfo

macrumors regular
Original poster
May 4, 2011
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I downloaded Yosemite and installed it on a flash drive. Later I went to reboot my SSD into Mavericks. The drive is now labeled Yosemite Install Disc. If I click on it, it goes into the install routine again.
How do I get my drive back?
Thanks.
 

silvetti

macrumors 6502a
Nov 24, 2011
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Poland
I downloaded Yosemite and installed it on a flash drive. Later I went to reboot my SSD into Mavericks. The drive is now labeled Yosemite Install Disc. If I click on it, it goes into the install routine again.
How do I get my drive back?
Thanks.

Disk Utility.
Reformat it.
 

Jayson A

macrumors 68030
Sep 16, 2014
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I'm pretty sure you overwrote your Mavericks drive with the Yosemite installer instead of putting it on your flash drive.
 

krawfo

macrumors regular
Original poster
May 4, 2011
191
10
I'm pretty sure you overwrote your Mavericks drive with the Yosemite installer instead of putting it on your flash drive.

I don't think so. When I check the disk files of the SSD, the Applications folder shows all the apps that I've installed. The flash drive just has folders for Applications , Library, System and Users and the Applications folder only has Apps associated with the OS.
 

maflynn

macrumors Haswell
May 3, 2009
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What happens when you reboot the mac and hold the cmd-r down? Does it boot into the recovery partition?
 
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