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morph115 Author

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Corrupted Factory Reset

Wondering if anyone can help me, I tried to factory reset my 2012 macbook pro however I did not back up any of my data via icloud/time machine.

I have been able to reinstall mac OS Mountain lion via the key command cmd+R.

Now I am trying to reinstall another os but i cannot find any links/download points for a new OS and I cannot install mac OS Catalina via the app store as it says that I need to upgrade my OS before re installing.

Any suggestions on what might be the problem/ where I can get a new OS from?

MacBook Pro

Posted on Apr 17, 2020 9:51 AM

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a brody

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Posted on Apr 17, 2020 11:34 AM

command-R restores the latest OS the machine can run.

command-option-shift-R restores the original OS.

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