Can't get in macOS Utilities
I'm having a problem when I try to get into macOS Utilities. When I hold CMD + R it shows me a prohibited symbol. I'm trying to downgrade my MacBook because its running very slow. Currently I have Mojave installed and I want to donwgrade it to High Sierra. Before I installed Mojave everything was fine. I could go to the utilities without any problem. it happened after I installed it and can't access the utilities.
About my Mac: macOS Mojave Version 10.14.6 Macbook (13-inch, Aluminum, Late 2008) Processor 2 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Memory 4 GB 1067 Mhz DDR3 Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9400M 256 MB
Solution 1:
Since Mojave isn't officially supported the recovery partition might be missing.
An alternate way to access the utilities without the CMD+R is to create an install usb. To do this first pick which version you want.
- Download image. Downloads can be found at this apple page
- Find a 16GB usb flash drive to put the image on (back up all data from it because it will be erased).
- Create the usb. You can find the right commands here.
- Boot off of the usb by holding down option when pressing the power button.
- Access any utilities needed.