It sounds as though you are not pressing COMMAND+R quickly enough when the Mac starts up. Try pressing the keys sooner, such as immediately when the startup chime starts playing. When I need to enter recovery mode, I press the key combination so quickly that the chime is still playing while the keys are held down.
As well, this is probably overkill, but if you have sighted help around, you could enter internet recovery instead by pressing COMMAND+OPTION+R rather than COMMAND+R. This starts the computer directly from Apple's servers and will allow you to put it back to factory condition, including recreating the recovery partition and installing the version of OS X that originally shipped with the computer. You could then use the Mac App Store to upgrade to the latest version of OS X. If you go this route, which I emphasize is probably unnecessary, you will need sighted help at the beginning as VoiceOver will not be immediately available. Grant > On Jun 27, 2015, at 3:29 PM, Mauricio Molina <mauriciohmol...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi, > > This is the same information I found using Google, but for some reason, it > does not work. There is a sign in and password and I use the password to log > in at all times. What I am doing is as soon as the MacBook is powered on, I > immediately hold down command and the letter R , but I always get to the > account log on window. Since command R did not work before the logging in > window appears, I hold down the combination after typing the password to log > in and this still has not worked. I have not seen anything like the ability > to reformat or wipe the system clean to start over. Any ideas? > > Mauricio > > From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anders Holmberg > Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2015 9:03 AM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: Wiping A Mac Clean and Starting Over > > > Hi.you can do that by holding down the command key together with the letter R > Now you are in the recovery mode.press command F5 to start > voice-over.here you can do a lot of things. For example there is an option to > reinstall the OS and start over.good luck > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
