i accidenatlly deleted my Macinstosh-HD hard drive

I accidenatlly deleted my Macinstosh Data-HD instead of Macinstosh-HD and now it won't allow me to reistall MacOS. HELP PLEASE!

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Posted on Jun 28, 2020 2:10 PM

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Posted on Jun 28, 2020 2:31 PM

Deleting either Macintosh HD or Macintosh HD - Data should not prevent reinstalling.

The OS goes on Macintosh HD, so if you deleted that volume, it might be confused, but deleting - Data is normal.


Does it say why it won't allow you to reinstall?


Boot into Internet Recovery and erase the entire drive then reinstall macOS.

How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - Apple Support



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Jun 28, 2020 2:31 PM in response to rmurillo017

Deleting either Macintosh HD or Macintosh HD - Data should not prevent reinstalling.

The OS goes on Macintosh HD, so if you deleted that volume, it might be confused, but deleting - Data is normal.


Does it say why it won't allow you to reinstall?


Boot into Internet Recovery and erase the entire drive then reinstall macOS.

How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - Apple Support



Jun 28, 2020 4:57 PM in response to rmurillo017

rmurillo017 wrote:

That Is correct, it will not allow me to reinstall. It does say something about a volume but I have tried the two hard drive disks available and it won’t work with either one.



DiskUtility>View>Show All Devices. The parent Drive is the top most (unchangeable name of your SSD brand name) below this will be the Container and the associated Volumes

Jun 29, 2020 9:17 AM in response to leroydouglas

The only internal disk is "APPLE HDD HTS541010A9E662 Media". Do I erase this? I'm sorry, I'm just very confused as there's a few to pick from. I did click on others and one says "Container Disk1", one does not have a name but it says "APFS Volume"underneath and the other says "Macinstosh HD" with APFS Volumes underneath it. Am I erasing the APPLE one and then try to reinstall it?

Jun 28, 2020 3:29 PM in response to rmurillo017

You need to reformat the Drive from DiskUtility>View>Show All Devives


Here you can erase/format the parent Drive (not the Container or child Volumes) and reinstall the macOS, and restore your user from a backup


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


How to use Time Machine to... restore your Mac: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250


How to erase a disk for Mac - Apple Support


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