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I just deleted my hard drive to give my computer to a friend and now all that appears is a white circle with a slash through it. This can't be good. Please help.


Posted on Oct 22, 2019 1:02 PM

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Posted on Oct 22, 2019 1:03 PM

quigapple wrote:

I just deleted my hard drive to give my computer to a friend and now all that appears is a white circle with a slash through it. This can't be good. Please help.




A circle with a line or slash through it means that the selected startup disk contains a Mac operating system, but it's not a macOS that your Mac can use. You should reinstall macOS on that disk.


ref: About the screens you see when your Mac starts up - Apple ..


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Oct 22, 2019 1:03 PM in response to quigapple

quigapple wrote:

I just deleted my hard drive to give my computer to a friend and now all that appears is a white circle with a slash through it. This can't be good. Please help.




A circle with a line or slash through it means that the selected startup disk contains a Mac operating system, but it's not a macOS that your Mac can use. You should reinstall macOS on that disk.


ref: About the screens you see when your Mac starts up - Apple ..


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