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iMac won't start from with SSD inside

hi guys

I just got an iMac from a friend and he took the hard drive out of it so i put my ssd is the Mac and started it on and pressed command R but I was unable to reach the recovery mode the line of loading was finished and then I just got a black screen. I opend the iMac and took the ssd out and then the recovery mode work just fine but now I can't install the Mac OS because the ssd is out...

can I please get help

thank you very much !😊

Posted on Jul 22, 2019 10:41 AM

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Posted on Jul 22, 2019 11:49 AM

The new drive needs to be formatted Mac OS Extended (journaled) and GUID partition scheme.

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iMac won't start from with SSD inside

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