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Help!!! Mac air is c will not install
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More info would be helpful. Was this done from Recovery Mode?
Hard to see what the image is...looks like alot of partitions. If everything is gone (you have no data to protect or recover), and you want a fresh install, it would be good to format the drive from Recovery Mode using Disk Utility, and then you are ready for a fresh OS install.
Hard to see what the image is...looks like alot of partitions. If everything is gone (you have no data to protect or recover), and you want a fresh install, it would be good to format the drive from Recovery Mode using Disk Utility, and then you are ready for a fresh OS install.
I was trying to start off clean and I pressed control r . I went to
Disk utilities and erased Macintosh to Mac OS extended . I tried installing it after that it did not install so kept restarting my computer and it was stuck on recovery screen.
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Recovery had disk is locked
Disk utilities and erased Macintosh to Mac OS extended . I tried installing it after that it did not install so kept restarting my computer and it was stuck on recovery screen.
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Recovery had disk is locked
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Pretty much the same as normally. Check this out.
Depending on the age of the Mac, and the OS you are installing, you probably want to format HFS+. For 10.14 and 10.15 on solid state, you want APFS. Anything older, HFS+ (also called Mac OS Extended (Journaled). is the best option.