How to remove OS X Installer for 10.10. to get back to 10.7, the originally installed OS?
I ran OS X 10.7 latest version on my MacBookPro 2011.
Then I installed on an external USB stick 10.10.3 from my running system OS X 10.7.
The installation on the stick was successful.
After testing 10.10 for some minutes I restarted the system, took of the usb-stick and wanted to restart from my internal disk the 10.7 system.
However, now there is the installer and insists on installing 10.10, what I do not want to do.
The disk utility says that my internal disk is not writable and that I cannot modify it.
Starting with an external disk with 10.7 works, but does not allow to reactivate the internal disk.
Recovery with Cmd ⌘ R loads 10.7 via the internet (it therefore still know that the original system is 10.7), but I cannot recover the 10.7 system, since I cannot write to the internal disk.
The internal disk is now Master Boot Record partitioned.
I do not know if it was GUID before or not: At least it worked for three years before.
I have a backup, but since this is 1TB I do not want to load it via a USB 2.0 port.
How can I reactivate my internal disk with 10.7? If reasonable I would change to 10.8 (but not higher) if there is a utility that works with 10.8 only. Any proposal or links to tool to remove the OS X installer and allow me to restart from my internal disk with 10.7?
The output of gpt -r show /dev/disk0
:
sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
results in:
start size index contents
0 1 MBR
1 1
2 1466246608 1 MBR part 175
1466246610 1
1466246611 487278557 2 MBR part 175
I have a time machine backup.
Something really, really bad happened to your internal 1 TB drive:
The GUID partition table was somehow replaced by a dual (and therefore additionally false) MBR partition table.
You may recover the previous GUID and your missing volume with a disk recovery tool like Disk Warrior to some extent. But since you have a backup just restore it:
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In case you have a Time Machine backup:
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Boot to Internet Recovery Mode by pressing altcmdR. The prerequisites for an Internet Recovery are listed here: Recovery/Internet Recovery. In a few words you need the latest firmware update installed, either ethernet or WLAN (WPA/WPA2) and a router with DHCP activated for a successful internet recovery.
On a 50 Mbps-line it takes about 4 min (presenting a small animated globe) to boot into the Recovery Netboot image which is loaded from an Apple server.(Alternatively you may boot to an external drive containing a Recovery HD or a full OS X system or a OS X thumb drive.)
- Open "Disk Utility" and partition your internal disk: GUID partition scheme (use the "Options..." button at the bottom of the main pane for this), one partition, journaled HFS+.
- Close "Disk Utility".
- Attach your Time Machine backup drive.
- Open "Restore from Time Machine Backup" and restore your main drive if you have booted from a Recovery drive.
If you've booted from a full OS X external drive just open Time Machine and restore your internal drive.
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In case you have a different back-up app:
- Follow the instructions of the non-Apple back-up application