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This means you can’t use our standard tutorial.
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However, if you have a Mac that debuted after Mavericks was released in October 2013, your Mac shipped with Mavericks pre-installed, so you don’t have an easily downloadable version of the installer-unless you happened to purchase Mavericks for another, older Mac. If you purchased OS X 10.9 from the Mac App Store, creating a bootable Mavericks installer drive from the Mac App Store version of Mavericks is relatively simple. (OS X Internet Recovery is available on mid-2011-or-later Macs, as well as some older Macs that have received relevant firmware updates.) A bootable installer drive, on the other hand, will always be there for you. And if you’ve got a Mac that doesn’t support OS X Internet Recovery-a variation of OS X Recovery that loads over the Internet and requires special firmware-recovery mode may not even be available if your Mac’s drive itself is having problems. For starters, OS X Recovery doesn’t include the full Mavericks installer-it requires you to download over 5GB of data before you can reinstall OS X 10.9-whereas a bootable installer drive contains all the necessary data, making installation much, much faster.
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For example, if you want to install Mavericks (OS X 10.9) on multiple Macs, a bootable installer drive is faster and more convenient than downloading or copying the entire OS X installer to each computer.īut even for troubleshooting, a bootable installer drive has advantages over OS X Recovery. But there are still good reasons to have one. OS X Recovery is a convenient feature that, in theory, means you no longer need an OS X Install disc or a bootable external hard drive with the OS X installer.