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  1. mediummacknowledge

    Urgent! Accidentally erased Macintosh Data but I run on an M1. Now there’s no disk to reinstall big sur and my work laptop is a vegetable

    Getting straight to the point, the main difference in the process of erasing Macs for intel and for Apple silicon is that you’re supposed to press the minus button (-) undef volume for Macintosh Data when erasing an Intel chip. I did this and now my sidebar looks like this: When I tried to...
  2. M

    Factory Reset Gone Wrong?

    I recently purchased an old Mid 2009 MacBook Pro from a friend, This is my first MacBook and Apple related device in general. He told me I would need to factory reset it so I looked up how to do so, I proceeded to erase the disk with Disk utility, but after doing that I cannot reinstall the OS X...
    • majortom42003
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    • cant reinstall el capitain macbbok pro macbook reinstall mac os x
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  3. C

    Disk Utility won’t let me install MacOS

    For the past few days I’ve been looking for a way to reset my MacBook Air and I thought it would be simple and so I looked it up and I forgot to backup but I didn’t think it mattered so I deleted my old Macintosh HD in disk utility and then tried to reinstall MacOS but it keeps giving the “Could...
    • CyberGobbed
    • Thread
    • disk utility macbook macbook air macos os high sierra os sierra reinstall mac os x
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: macOS
  4. A

    No disk found when I go to reinstall OS Please help

    Hello, so today I opened up my laptop and it was in Safe Boot. When I put in my password it wouldn’t unlock it after a couple of restarts it allowed me to get in. But my Laptop was showing black boxes everywhere. I called Apple they had me Un Mount and Mount Macintosh HD , and erase and...
  5. MacConvert2007

    Kernel panic—Trying to reinstall OS X encountered problems

    I have a mid-2009 MacBook Pro that was running OS X 10.11.6 Started to get a kernel panic error and it would not finish booting up. Would not boot into safe mode either. Went back to my Leopard Install DVDs and did an archive and install—moving my old OS to a different folder. This went fine...
  6. aloum

    2008 IMac restore

    I have a 2008 IMac that boots into windows 7 Enterprise. I bought it used and don't know the password. I have tried so many things to reset the windows password but no luck, because it was linked to a domain and the both the Admin and the Administrator accounts are disabled. I went to restore it...
    • aloum
    • Thread
    • el capitain imac 2008 mountain lion reinstall mac os x
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: iMac
  7. M

    Reinstalling Issue

    Ok, a couple of days ago I erased my HDD because it was almost full and my Mac was kinda slow, when I went to the reinstall option in recovery mode when it asked me about my Apple ID it said that "this item is temporarily not available. Try later" and after that I started searching information...
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