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Reisuke2515

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Aug 27, 2021
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I Was trying to reset this mac and went to Command.r and went to the utility disk where I may have accidentally deleted something I shouldn’t have, which I assume is Macintosh hd, I am completely lost in what to do now, in an attempt to find a solution I tried to download disk drill on the Mac but the internet just won’t let me continue further, I don’t even know if it would help me. (Also there is no help to get from the Time machine. not that i expected a time machine to work, this isn't "Back to the future" after all)
 

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glenthompson

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It would help to specify exactly which iMac you have. In general what you need to do is disconnect any external drives then use internet recovery to load MacOS onto the drive. Once that is done you can plug in the time Machine backup drive and restore from it.
 

casperes1996

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Jan 26, 2014
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There’s nothing wrong with having deleted the volume Macintosh HD.

In the recovery menu go back into Disk Utility, make sure the view is set to show all devices, not just volumes, select the root disk, erase it and either format a new partition with HFS+ or an APFS container depending on OS and install macOS to that
 

Reisuke2515

macrumors newbie
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Aug 27, 2021
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There’s nothing wrong with having deleted the volume Macintosh HD.

In the recovery menu go back into Disk Utility, make sure the view is set to show all devices, not just volumes, select the root disk, erase it and either format a new partition with HFS+ or an APFS container depending on OS and install macOS to that
Heyyo, i would just love to inform you, that you have fixed my problem! Your help is appreciated, not just by me, but by my family :D Thank you for being such a great human being. You truly have my respect and honor! May your life end with the grestest path. (It went smothly, your guide was really understandable, and well. Thanks for the help)
 

casperes1996

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Jan 26, 2014
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Horsens, Denmark
Heyyo, i would just love to inform you, that you have fixed my problem! Your help is appreciated, not just by me, but by my family :D Thank you for being such a great human being. You truly have my respect and honor! May your life end with the grestest path. (It went smothly, your guide was really understandable, and well. Thanks for the help)
Aw, thank you. I appreciate the kind words as well. Glad it's fixed for you :)
 
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