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Posted: Tue Feb 5th, 2013 07:29

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Location:	South Lakeland, UK
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Bob, you may know this already but just in case. If you re-start the Mac mini holding down the option (alt) key it will give you the option to select the recovery drive (if you have a wireless mouse you may need to navigate with the curser keys). That gives you access to the Apple servers to download a complete new OS appropriate for your computer, with the server, I think you get the opportunity to select which drive it's installed on.

It's a very slow download depending on your connection. I did mine over night on the rare occasions it has been needed. (I totally screwed the OS on my server within a a day or so of getting it! LOL)

I am not sure exactly which OS it will load, probably the one the computer had on day one when it was new, it will then of course need to go through the updates which will be in the Mac App Store purchases and updates.

Good luck, if you have further issues come back and tell us.

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Robert.