[HOMODIN]

I have this old macbook that I'm trying to give some new life to since the battery is still rather good in it. The plan is to throw in a new SSD since I have several of them here and they are literally just collecting dust. However the issue now is that I can't seem to find the installation files (iso or what ever name it goes by with apple)...all the instructions that I find refer to the App Store and then says that macOS Sierra should be donwloaded from there...fine, I have found it in the store but I'm unable to download it from there, when I hit "Get" literally nothing happens and I can't seem to find a workaround for it either.

Any suggestions?

Some details
MacBook (late 2009)
Mac OS X 10.6.8

[Bastille]

I encountered the case some years ago, so I made a Time Machine save, and then when I boot my Mac I had an option to copy the time machine save to the new disk

[991z3r0]

Can't you just command + R during boot and use the installer/reinstaller via boot? If you have an Ethernet connection it should also download the newest possible OS from Apple(this is what i've done many times at work).

[HOMODIN]

Can't you just command + R during boot and use the installer/reinstaller via boot? If you have an Ethernet connection it should also download the newest possible OS from Apple(this is what i've done many times at work).

As I said, I'm throwing in an SSD which obviously means that it's blank so there's no recovery or anything like that.

[991z3r0]

As I said, I'm throwing in an SSD which obviously means that it's blank so there's no recovery or anything like that.

Ah yes idk why i didn't realize the recovery partition is on the installed drive and not built into the board.

You could go the time machine route or i guess potentially using a drive clone tool and just cloning either the whole drive over or clone it for the the recovery partition.

[VoIPv2]

In order to get the iso, you need to download the image from another macbook/imac etc that supports that version.
Example: (For Mojave) https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/How+to+inst...acs/115162