There's been a lot of work at Apple in the last one year. Apple has again updated its product list. MacOS With this latest iteration, Apple replaces macOS Mojave sporting newly updated features. Users can now run custom iPad applications available on the app store mac store and the iPad as a secondary display. Also, the new OS, Catalina, features Apple Arcade, improved security, and privacy, better accessibility for the disabled, more applications, Find My Mac feature, and many more.
However, one problem users tend to face often with new Operating System releases is how to download and install them. Updating and installing new Operating Systems could prove to be a daunting task. In this guide we'll be going through how to install macOS Catalina step by step. Not all Macs can run Catalina, so you must check if yours is eligible. Luckily, Catalina's hardware requirements are the same as Mojave, so if your Mac is already running Mojave, then you can Catalina without any issues.
Macs running macOS Mavericks or newer can successfully run Catalina so long as it meets the hardware requirements. Below is the list of Macs that meet Catalina's hardware requirements:. Actually I just resolved it with the help of Apple Support!
I used the Recovery Tool. Page content loaded. Dec 25, PM in response to heyyitsmike In response to heyyitsmike. Sometimes operations are performed and then the keyboard settings become manipulated, technically.
Then reboot, trying this once more. Malware, which makes you Mac, run in malicious manor. Use Malwarebytes Anti-Malware for Mac. Much of that hour was was a black screen or at times a black screen with a progress bar. Hard to say if power cycling your computer during the installation messed things up. I downloaded Catalina for my Mac Book Pro and had no issues installing it. I followed through the wizard steps as instructed and the restart occurred as expected.
This has gone on for over 12 hours. I left it this long as I was not certain how long the setting up process will last. I have no access to any files as all I am allowed to enter in my username and password. I searched on the web and found out that I could make storage space available by removing some files. I am stuck now and do not know what to do to resolve the issue. Please advice or let me know what options do I have to get my Mac working again. I can access y emai account on a separate machine — if you leave comments at my email address given below.
I have exactly the same problem with my machine. Have you found the solution? Had same problem, did the Apple advanced technical procedure — just turned off the electric supply and back on.
Bingo it works with just a couple of glitches. If the installer is failing that fast after you select a target drive, I would try deleting the installer and downloading a new copy.
There have been reports of corrupt installers and that is one of the symptoms. It also fails in a slightly different manner on my rMBP in that it actually displays the reboot timer which gets to 29 and the goes non-responsive again. The odd thing is that I did get it to install onto one of our Mac Pro 5,1 systems after the hacks. My machine running Mojave downloaded the Catalina upgrade through Software Update.
I used a WD hard drive to install Catalina and not my boot drive. Installation went smoothly. However upon booting for the hard drive, I have two volumes one for Catalina and a new volume for Catalina-Data.
This is a GB drive with both volumes now showing identical used space of GB. Works great tho. Catalina does create tow new volumes, a read-only system volume and a -data volume. Catalina is suppose to display them as a single combined volume. You should only see the two volumes if your booted into another system, use Terminal to view the volumes, or have them showing up in Disk Utility. You, sir, are a Mac Master. Rebooted into Catalina Desktop and it correctly displays only one icon.
Thanks so much, after many years working with macOS I had read about two volumes were created in Catalina, but I missed seeing I only had the problem when booted with Mojave. Spam Sieve if present will need to be disabled compatibility issue?
Get a sandwich or wait ten to fifteen minutes and Mail Preferences will finish launching. After this, was able to use Mail Preferences without delay, until next reboot, at which time the delay is back. Not sure why. Also SpamSieve is not usable currently and has been disabled, which is a bummer. Days of time wasted, reminding me of why I fired Microsoft Windows decades ago. It also runs slower than Sahara and takes more storage.
Apple support folks are courteous and smart, but have no tools for remote control over MAC. They can only point to stuff on the screen with a little arrow, for me to do the clicking. Kind of primitive. Storage system verify or repair failed. I got the same message! Did u ever figure it out? I have macbook air I update mac os Catalina, unfortunately internet cut and download stop. Again updating os , it was start firstly. Also mac system space increase. This process near five times happen.
Please help me. No errors. It does read the drive and will play off it. Monitor went black after upgrade to Catalina OS. Spoke to Apple support and will be talking to them tomorrow. Hoping I can get a fix. Works like a champ ever since! I have a similar problem. On my main account only one I use it just keeps on spinning and informing me it is setting up my Mac for hours.
I can log into an admin account, but that one does not have any of my files or apps associated with it. Do I try and out-wait this installer? Little direction…? Upgrade install went smoothly on my MBP; however, backup to one of my TM drives has been going on for many hours. It then takes me to an option where I can quit the installer and choose a startup disk. So glad I choose to update to Catalina. Same as a few others here. Install seemed to go fine. But upon reboot, system would not take my password.
Trying restore, disk utility, etc… to no avail because the computer will not mount my hard drive. The install appears to have completed successfully, but now after entering in our password, the machine simply restarts. This occurred after a clean install erasing and formatting drive and then doing a migration from Time Machine. Any advice? Do not remove the — data drive. This is expected and is a results of new system security built inot macOS Catalina. You can read about it here in the section about dedicated read only system.
My concern is that it created 2 volumes named Macintosh HD — Data. Should that be the case? There should be just a single -data drive, and they are not normally not visible from the Finder.
Did the installer hiccup, that is did it stall or freeze and it was rerun? Has to be force quit. This could be caused by a corrupt installer, a startup disk that needs repair, or another app that is running. Use Disk Utility to check that your drive s are in good shape, you can find a link to check your drives in that article above. Make sure all other apps are closed and you may want to delete the Catalina installer and downloaded a new copy.
I have devised a workaround for my needs but it would be nice to be able to access and use the HD. Any suggestions would be helpful. Catalina wont download past I have restarted my macbook pro several times and it wont get past Step 2: Now, power it back on and for added luck, cross your fingers. Step 3: In our experience, this should then see your Mac either log straight into your Desktop or settle on the user login screen.
It will depend on how you had your Mac set up before kicking the update off. Tried in safe mode, it only restarts every 3 seconds but doesnt give me login screen. Please advice. I was attempting to update my MacBook Air with. Catalina and did not have enough space for installation. Quit the installer to restart your computer and try again. The problem is all I can do at this point is restart the computer and it just comes back to this screen. Try restarting your Mac in Safe Mode, this should prevent the installer from picking up where it left off.
The internal hard disk of my MacBook is not recognized after it reboots during Catalina installation. Should I restart my computer? That should have read me too!
On restart, all of my issues went away! Booted from USB cloned drive. Erased internal drive. About an hour later, chose to get my data from a Time Machine Backup. Finished about 3 hours later. For hours. No idea what to do. Apple used to be so good. Back to Microsoft? Upgrading to Catalina has killed my iMac. It restarted to complete the install and now it shows the folder with?
In it. I now have a brick thanks. I even unplugged but it came back exactly where it was left. This update took an entire day and more than a little frustration. I started password recovery but no user was shown there. Catalina installation has hung up.
I am having problems after upgrading to Catalina with my external hard drives. I get the following message:. After OS downloads, a window appears telling me that no Apple approved drive is available. All my drives show in a window, but none were manufactured by Apple, Any solutions? Hi William, I have forwarded this issue to our Product Development team. Feel like Apple should fix it for free. Had the same problem on my MBP. It was during the Beta Catalina OS load.
See if that fixes it. I tried everything I could find online. No luck. I then went to the genius bar at apple and had them check it out. The SSD had become unmounted.
They ran diagnostic and all was good. Reloaded Mojave back on it. Back normal. Currently I am getting the unable to complete install. Corrupt installer. Error message. Tried a couple of times but still hangs up. Disappointed in the this update. Not sure what is happening at apple. Maybe they hired people from Microsoft.
I will wait a while maybe they will get the bugs out. I tried installing Catalina today. Tried it 6 times now. Try starting up in Safe Mode, this should prevent the installer from continuing to run. If that does not help, check the section of the article above about Activation Lock. Did you try restarting your Mac as mentioned in the article? Restarting seem to fix a an installation that has stalled. Just make sure you have given the install process a good amount of time to complete, and 6 hours sounds like enough.
Hopefully that will fix the problem, but it is also possible you will have to use the Recovery startup process and reinstall the OS. For me I try to be patient and wait a few hours. The point being if you have a modern Mac and you are still stuck after a few hours, I would restart the Mac. Just remember, you may need to reinstall the OS or recovery your data from a backup.
This error happens to devices with overactive firewall or those installed with third-party security software, such as VPN and antivirus. If this happens, disable this software first before trying to reinstall macOS Catalina.
Sometimes, your Mac gets stuck with the x minutes remaining screen during the installation. When you encounter this problem, click the X button to exit the installation process and check your console logs.
It is possible that your user account is corrupted, preventing your system from completing the installation process. The only way to deal with this is to create another admin user account and install macOS Catalina using that account.
You might think that everything is over once you finish the installation process and your Mac restarts. But sometimes, errors can still happen even after the installation has been completed. Some users reported getting stuck with a black screen, while others encounter the spinning wheel during the restart following the update. This error is usually caused by incompatible or corrupted kext files.
Kext or Kernel Extension files are the drivers for macOS. To check whether kext files are causing the error, move all of them out of your Extensions folder before rebooting your Mac. To do this:. Remember that erasing your HDD will delete all of your files and settings, so make sure you have a backup before doing a fresh install.
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