I did what you said up until the disks showed up. It was a HD disk and a Recovery disk. I tried the HD disk first to no avail. So I started over and when the disks showed up, I picked the Recovery disk. No external disks were offered.

Then a window showed up after picking English and hitting return as it instructed with four options:

1. Choice to restore TM backup. I don't use TM
2.Reinstall OS X - I don't have disks. They weren't provided
3. Get Help online - Duh!
4. Disk Utility - which is what I am supposing I am supposed to pick?


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