Temporarily Unavailable when Reinstalling OS X Mavericks

[sms1295]

I decided to wipe out everything and do a clean for my iMac (late 2011) to reinstall of Mavericks. I went through the process of reformatting the HD. I go into Reinstall OS X and move through the process of providing my Apple ID and pw. All looks fine and the I get the message “This item is temporarily unavailable”. I’ve tried this several time over the last couple of weeks. Any suggestion as to how I can reinstall Mavericks?



Would the following also be options:

Purchase Maverick from Apple to install?
Could install Yosemite via the disk that came with my new iMac?

Thanks,

sms1295

 

[oldscribe]

Hi,


Sounds like you will need to Install the original OS from DVD, then you'll be able to access the store to download Mavericks , I assume it's in your purchase list? Because if not and unless it is in your purchase history, it will always be unavailable.

 

[sms1295]

I have an iMac that came with Mavericks which I thought I had registered under my Apple ID, but I don’t see it as a device. I’m looking to do a clean install, so I went to disk utilities and did the following:

Erased the HD in Mac OS Extended (journaled)

Booted back in Disk Utilities

Selected Reinstall OSX

Went through the screens including entering my Apple ID/pw

I then get the message “This item is temporarily unavailable”

I’ve seen sever post about people not getting by this message which I’ve tried. I’ve also tried the following:

Downloaded a copy of Yosemite from Cnet and tried created an install USB using TransMac. I was able to restore the image from the USB on the iMac. When I restarted, it appears something was loading and about half way through it stopped. I tried a few times and finally gave up.

I found a Mavericks Installer (~5 GB) file which I copied to my Windows PC and used TransMac to transfer to a USB drive. I’ve not gotten this to work either.

I would like to get any OS X installed on the iMac. Can someone provide me the instructions to do so?

Thanks,

 

[Spawn_Dooley]

boot up using the following keyboard command:

Option Command () R

this is Internet Recovery & will require an internet connection & will help you install the Mac OS version that originally came with your Mac.

About macOS Recovery

 

[sms1295]

I gave the Internet Recovery option a try. All that happened was that Lion was available. I have decided to give up and purchases a recover disk for about $20.00. Hopefully this will get me back going. Thanks for replying.

 

[sms1295]

I gave the Internet Recovery option a try. All that happened was that Lion was available. I have decided to give up and purchases a recover disk for about $20.00. Hopefully this will get me back going. Thanks for replying.