Macbook Pro wont restore [error 3]

I recently had to reformat my hard drive because it would not boot, after doing so I realized that on my Macbook (mid 2010 Macbook pro) does not have internet recovery build into the bios. So I went and found a guide from apple as how to make a High Sierra bootable usb thumb drive. After making one I booted from it and started the install however consistently I get the error in the picture every time. I've have tried 5+ times and after each time I remove the hard drive and reformat/wipe it and I have even tried a new USB and remaking the bootable drive but to no avail. PLEASE HELP.

MacBook (Starting Late 2009)

Posted on Dec 27, 2018 8:13 AM

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Posted on Dec 28, 2018 10:28 AM

I did and on both the El Capitan and High Sierra bootable drive they would not format the drive in specifically OS Journaled. But it would format fine when I removed the drive and hooked it up to another computer I believe I have found the issue.

https://www.ifixit.com/Answers/View/368363/Disk+Utility+on+Internet+Recovery+will+not+format+GUID+++Mac+OS+Extend

If you view the "Answer" they say that it is the hard drive cable which would make sense because only my cable is not reading correctly however externally with a different cable it works fine. I'm going to order one and I'll update this thread once it arrives if you think that could be the issue.

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