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flashing folder icon with ? on it

I'm preparing old macbook (mid 2013) for trade in for new Mac. My screen just flashes a folder icon with a question mark on it. I'm pretty sure I completed hard drive erasure and am now supposed to reinstall macOS.


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Posted on Feb 4, 2021 3:52 PM

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Posted on Feb 4, 2021 4:17 PM

you are not booting the machine into a bootable installer so its only searching for the erased drive with no system on it.


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flashing folder icon with ? on it

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