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I deleted my disk and can’t reinstall

I deleted my disk in internet recovery when trying to factory reset and now I can’t reinstall mac os no matter what i do and i’m panicking i’ve ruined my macbook. Help please

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 7, 2020 11:53 AM

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Posted on Dec 7, 2020 12:57 PM

Don't panic!


  1. Boot into Recovery by holding down Command-R on startup.
  2. Select the option to install (or reinstall) macOS
  3. Once that's done, if you have a Time Machine backup, you can opt to migrate your files from that to the Mac.
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I deleted my disk and can’t reinstall

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