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MacBook Pro 2019/Recovery Mode doesn’t show up any disk to install MacOs Software.

What happened is that I decided to set my Mac up as new, had some problems with my storage because of the 128GB model, so I did that and when I tried to erase the disk, it supposedly went through, I got the green check mark like meaning “successfully erased” then I noticed there was like 40GB of storage left, so it clearly didn’t delete everything at all, so I tried to do it again until the disk was completely erased, then I proceed to install the Catalina OS, and it just doesn’t show any Disk to install the software, even if I go to the corner where it says “StartUp Disk” nothing shows up, looks like it doesn’t recognize any Disk available, and I’m able to be at the recovery mode screen so that’s a good thing, because there’s no damage, and I never ever had any issues, I just bought it 3 months ago, it was everything literally perfect. Hope you can help me.

By the way, “Container Disk2” on the image doesn’t mount, I already tried that and it just doesn’t work.

And when I restarted it I got a spinning globe, and put my WiFi, after that it lasted around 13 min. Then I got the recovery mode again BUT, know it’s not Catalina what it’s trying to install, now it’s got Mojave.

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Mar 10, 2020 7:00 PM

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Posted on Mar 10, 2020 9:40 PM

conderaffa wrote:







Your posted images are a mess to read.


Boot into Internet Recovery (Option Command R) You are going to erase/format the Parent drive not the Container or child volumes. Format as GUID (GPT) partiton type/ and HFS+ Journaled (as the file type)


Let the Mojave installer convert to apfs if it wants to when it installs.


Try again—

How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

as new.


Once you get Mojave installed you can always upgrade to Catalina if that is what your end goal is.

Post back if you need more help in this process...


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Mar 10, 2020 9:40 PM in response to conderaffa

conderaffa wrote:







Your posted images are a mess to read.


Boot into Internet Recovery (Option Command R) You are going to erase/format the Parent drive not the Container or child volumes. Format as GUID (GPT) partiton type/ and HFS+ Journaled (as the file type)


Let the Mojave installer convert to apfs if it wants to when it installs.


Try again—

How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

as new.


Once you get Mojave installed you can always upgrade to Catalina if that is what your end goal is.

Post back if you need more help in this process...


MacBook Pro 2019/Recovery Mode doesn’t show up any disk to install MacOs Software.

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