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The only option I have is to get the current hard drive out of there. After purchasing a new hard drive or managing a corrupt one on an older Mac, you can install your current version of OS X even though you might not have a working Recovery option (on the drive. I've tried numerous troubleshooting forums and suggestions but because of the failing hard drive I'm unable to clone my files, unable to download the applicable OS from the App Store, nothing. I've already backed up my important files I want to keep to a USB. First of all, the hard drive I had came with an NTFS partition. The hard drive I am going to use for this check is a WD 2TB hard drive. The original hard drive in the Mac was a 500GB drive. I've already formatted my SSD as a boot disk. I took the hard drive that was in the Mac out, I had just literally bought a new external hard drive that I am going to be using for back up purposes.
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I can begin downloads but they won't finish and the one time it did finish it said the file was corrupted and wouldn't let me install it.
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I've spent probably 4 hours trying different ways to get Mac OS Sierra, El Capitan, Snow Leopard and Lion installed onto my SSD via the App Store. Long story short I cannot clone the failing drive, I cannot boot into internet recovery mode either to install the OS onto my SSD. So my stock HDD is failing and I bought a 500GB SSD to replace it with. First off I'm not crazy- I've just literally never done this and I like to know every detail.