recovery mode

Hi everyone, - STOLEN MAC : MacBook Pro 16″ 2019: macOS 14.1.2 - NEW MAC : MacBook Pro 13″ 2019: macOS 14.4 I have 2 different hard disks with backups made with Time Machine of the stolen mac. I'm trying to recover it completely on the new mac Initially I tried with "Recovery Assistant". But...

I have a Macbook Air (A1466) (Catalina 10.15.6) that will not launch recovery mode or accept user admin login password. After exploring the password recovery link, I see that the boot volume is encrypted (Filevalut?), but I am unable to change the startup volume or erase the HD. I am unable to...

Just as the title says - I have been at this for about 10-12 hours now, and I am completely stumped. The machine is running the latest version of Sonoma (which I'm learning has some serious issues with external drives) and no matter what, it cannot see any external volumes or devices as...

Hi guys I have a 2015 iMac 27", lent it to a friend and... he partitioned my HD, it became full slowing down the computer no end ( that plus an array of folders scattered all over, etc, etc... ) so i tried to re-install High Sierra which i think is the OS it came with. I shut down the computer...

I apologize if this has been posted for the umpteenth time. I'm very confused on how to approach this, even after reading previous topics on here and the apple forums. Running Sonoma 14.0 on a 2020 iMac (3.8 GHz 8-Core intel i7) Disk utility fails in recovery mode and on desktop. I have two...

I'm not able to find anything saying if this will work or not. I have a bunch of Intel iMacs to erase company data off of then get rid of. They were setup before I got here, and they were setup without FileVault. If I turn FileVault ON, let it encrypt then forget the password and reinstall...

Hi, I got the above iMAC and I have a problem of accessing the Recovery mode of it. I guess this happened after I tried to install Windows via BootCamp and then failed. (Allocated partition was recovered using bootcamp itself) Neither of following doesn't work at the moment while booting with a...

How come the past 2 macOS updates have resulted in my computer booting into recovery mode? Wait let me explain and wait for the kicker... Over a month ago I Was on the phone with Apple regarding an issue of my Notes not syncing on my iphone and/or iMac desktop. Apple pointed out that my OS...

Hi! I have a 2009 MacBook Air and I’ve tried everything to fix it. I’m in internet recovery mode and don’t know what to do now. 😢

So i have iphone XS and i updated ios to 16.1.1 and everything seemed fine. Then the next day my internet wasnt working like if there wasnt wifi/mobile data module in the phone. So i restarted it and it got in boot loop. I tried all the solutions in YouTube. I got in recovery mode and tried to...

Hello, I recently purchased an old Macbook Pro 2014. Then I had to factory reset the computer because I don't want the data of previous owner. After wiping out the hard disk, I tried to reinstall the os from recovery mode over the internet. But I couldn't do that because it gave the error "the...

I'm a pretty knowledgeable user when it comes to problems with iPhones. However, this one has me good... So I was trying to set up my phone using the "restore from iCloud backup" option. But it paused during the backup download, so I had no option but to force restart. Now it's stuck in...

My mac freezes on boot and when entering recovery mode, it won’t load disk utility and when I type in to the Terminal diskutil cs list I stares no core volume found… can anyone help me get my Mac working again…?

Hi, My MP 3,1 (2008) has installed "Catalina" and run smoothly! Question: 1) There's definitely NO Recovery Mode for DosDude version? Any alternative way? 2) I'm not able to "Option + Power" to launch the boot from USB Installer. What's your suggestion?

I just switched on my macbook pro mid 2014 today and i got the folder with the question mark.I did not get such issues in the past and used my macbook pro normally until yesterday without any problems.So i did command + R to enter recovery mode but brought me to internet recovery mode.I opened...

I was erasing my Mac today to prepare it for selling, and during the process of erasing the drive I decided to reboot it in order to verify that the OS and the data was gone. I was expecting to get back into the same recovery mode. However, I was put into internet recovery which downloaded an...

I'm looking for detailed descriptions of what actually happens when you use each recovery method, since Apple is not very transparent about this. I know the recommended reasons for each method, but I want to know all of what happens under the hood. My understanding is: Update OTA - a patch...

Hey all I have a MacBook Pro 2016 model with 2 Thunderbolt 3 ports. My LCD cracked and I am unable to see anything on it. Therefore I bought myself a thunderbolt to HDMI/USB3.0/USB2.0 dongle for it so that I could see the screen on my TV. Everything worked great. I did the ⌘+R when starting...

I am attempting to re-install Big Sur 11.3 from recovery mode on my system disk. When selecting my internal disk when attempting to do this, I receive the following error: Have no idea what it could be, searches weren't any help. Troubleshooting steps already tried to no avail: Restarting...

On the latest PB, but having major issues with Spotlight, even after trying a variety of "fixes" (adding drive to privacy then re-adding, sudo mdutil -E /, safe mode, disk utility first aid, restarting, deleting index with Cocktail and Onyx, reindex command from spotlight, etc) I've found...