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When I press option power on, what comes up is just recovery hard drive only?

Pls why is it that when i press option power on, what comes up is just recovery hard drive only?

it doesn't show USB hare drive where I can boot it from in other to restore my Mac


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Posted on Dec 17, 2018 12:31 AM

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Posted on Dec 17, 2018 7:37 AM

First, boot your Mac from the Recovery Partition (from what you describe, the only one available).

Then, erase the disk according to How to erase a disk for Mac

Then, install macOS on that disk.

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When I press option power on, what comes up is just recovery hard drive only?

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