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My son reset his laptop and now the installation does not continu. It appears that there is no installation disc active to install MacOS Catalina. In the disc help menu I can put back a drive but it warns that this procedure cannot be undone. That leaves me hesitant to press the button. On the disc is nothing of value, my son works in the cloud. What can I do?
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
No, but my guess is the Restore function of Disk Utility.
You would have had to create a disk image to restore from.
Apple disk image Media is not something you could restore. It is the Recovery OS.
Did he erase the drive completely?
If so, you need to Restore from a Time Machine backup or Reinstall macOS. Both options are on the main page of the Utilities.
About macOS Recovery on Intel-based Mac computers - Apple Support
No, but my guess is the Restore function of Disk Utility.
You would have had to create a disk image to restore from.
Apple disk image Media is not something you could restore. It is the Recovery OS.
Did he erase the drive completely?
If so, you need to Restore from a Time Machine backup or Reinstall macOS. Both options are on the main page of the Utilities.
About macOS Recovery on Intel-based Mac computers - Apple Support
Jil76 wrote:
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/b1e04c76-8a28-4f52-a766-8a2d4ab2a9a8
Did he erased the drive completely? Maybe it is formatted as APFS by default. Reformat is in my other reply.
If your brother correctly formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled), the disk should show up there. In the Disk Utility, Reformat it by clicking Erase then select Mac OS Extended (Journaled) (or APFS is optional) then click Erase.
How did he “reset” the laptop I’m not familiar with that term.
I also don’t understand “put back a drive.” Where do you see that?
Sorry, it’s in Dutch...can you figure it out...?
I'm assuming your restoring the Disk. It wouldn't work at all. Do have a Time Machine Backup previously?
No disc to install to after reset
