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My MacBook has a cancel sign on the start up screen and it keeps telling me I need a start up disk. What do I do?

MacBook Air 11″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Aug 14, 2020 4:46 PM

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Posted on Aug 14, 2020 7:31 PM

You may try and see if your Mac can start into recovery.

This would usually give you access to tools, to fix Mac.

• About macOS Recovery - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314

Other options to access the macOS and helpful tools..

This has similar clues to above article, and more detail.

(Internet recovery could allow online startup from servers.)

• How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

Take care & good luck!🌻🐝

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Aug 14, 2020 7:31 PM in response to tyana257

You may try and see if your Mac can start into recovery.

This would usually give you access to tools, to fix Mac.

• About macOS Recovery - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201314

Other options to access the macOS and helpful tools..

This has similar clues to above article, and more detail.

(Internet recovery could allow online startup from servers.)

• How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

Take care & good luck!🌻🐝

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