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Can I stop erasing my MacBook Pro 2019?

It’s just it’s taking too long. It’s about 2 days and it still processing. Is this still normal?




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MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 11, 2020 1:29 PM

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Posted on Oct 11, 2020 2:01 PM

(I did erase it thru my phone’s “Find My Macbook” and the rest is history😬)

Why?


You'll have to re-enable it through Find My Mac, then boot into Internet Recovery (holding down cmd-opt-r on restart).

From there you can erase the disk and reinstall macOS.

Make sure you follow the instructions to 'Erase the Disk' and not the 'Erase a Volume' (if one even still exists).

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Oct 11, 2020 2:01 PM in response to CacaiM

(I did erase it thru my phone’s “Find My Macbook” and the rest is history😬)

Why?


You'll have to re-enable it through Find My Mac, then boot into Internet Recovery (holding down cmd-opt-r on restart).

From there you can erase the disk and reinstall macOS.

Make sure you follow the instructions to 'Erase the Disk' and not the 'Erase a Volume' (if one even still exists).

Can I stop erasing my MacBook Pro 2019?

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