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If it does not, press back and enter your password again. A new window should pop up and OS X Yosemite should begin to install.It will ask for your Mac App Store password to redownload OS X Yosemite. When it’s finished, close out Disk Utility and select “ReInstall OS X” from the menu.Click Erase (this will erase your main drive!) and allow some time for the drive to format.Near the center of the window, select the Format drop-down list and select “Mac OS X Extended (Journaled)” as the type.Now, select the Erase tab, located next to the First Aid button at the top-center.

In the window, at the top of the left bar, select your Mac’s Main Drive.

Now, your Mac should load a screen with a few options (you can let go of Cmd+R now).

(Keep holding it down while it restarts, do not let go)

We’re going to restart your Mac again.

Do it, and once it’s loaded up, we’ll start the clean install process: Once it’s done, it’ll ask you to restart your Mac. Follow the instructions to install OS X Yosemite. Once it’s finished downloading, it’ll immediately load up on your screen.

So to start, you should download OS X Yosemite from the Mac App Store. We’re going to show you how to do it without using a USB drive, which makes it much easier and less confusing. Once a clean Yosemite install is ready, you can migrate your user settings and data using Time Machine. If you have a Time Machine backup, you can reinstall OS X following these instructions (from this page). Someone may have a more sublime approach using that information. Also note that this is more of a blunt instrument approachįirstly, I can't speak directly to the terminal logs. Note: I'm not able to test this so I don't know if a backup will reintroduce the same problem.