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Accidentally eleted both HD and HD Data, trying to reinstall macOS Catalina and no disk is appearing to install to. What do I do?

Accidentally eleted both HD and HD Data, trying to reinstall macOS Catalina and no disk is appearing to install to. What do I do?

Posted on Sep 2, 2021 3:52 PM

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Posted on Sep 3, 2021 10:29 AM

SkypilotJon wrote:

Accidentally eleted both HD and HD Data, trying to reinstall macOS Catalina and no disk is appearing to install to. What do I do?


DiskUtiliy>View>Show All devices


You are installing onto the Parent drive. If no drive is present try from Recovery running the First Aid


Boot into Internet Recovery (Option Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities>  Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD (and the "Macintosh HD-Data" volume as well if Catalina/Big Sur) If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.


Disk Utility>View>Show All Devices The best sequence is —

• Volume level

• Container level

• Parent drive


Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904






How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904


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Sep 3, 2021 10:29 AM in response to SkypilotJon

SkypilotJon wrote:

Accidentally eleted both HD and HD Data, trying to reinstall macOS Catalina and no disk is appearing to install to. What do I do?


DiskUtiliy>View>Show All devices


You are installing onto the Parent drive. If no drive is present try from Recovery running the First Aid


Boot into Internet Recovery (Option Command R) and from the dropdown menu: Utilities>  Disk Utility> run the First Aid on your Macintosh HD (and the "Macintosh HD-Data" volume as well if Catalina/Big Sur) If errors are found and repaired, run again until no errors reported.


Disk Utility>View>Show All Devices The best sequence is —

• Volume level

• Container level

• Parent drive


Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904






How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904


Accidentally eleted both HD and HD Data, trying to reinstall macOS Catalina and no disk is appearing to install to. What do I do?

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