Recovery globe just spins at 24:00

I am trying to reinstall my OSX disk and useres have said to restart Mac and hold Command-Option-r and wait. I did that but it just spins and its been over an hour now and nothing has happened. Fyi this is a mid 2011 27in Mac. Everything was working fine till I did a recent update that a error popped up saying it was unable to update.

iMac 27″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Nov 9, 2020 3:01 PM

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BDAqua

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Nov 9, 2020 4:29 PM in response to Sport1984

Error -2106f might mean a bad hd.

Try reinstalling this in Safe Mode, but not using Firefox...

https://itunes.apple.com/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?mt=12

Safe Boot, (holding Shift key down at startup).

Sport1984 Author

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Nov 9, 2020 3:41 PM in response to Sport1984

Now it finally gave me a apple.com/support -2106F error

Sport1984 Author

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Nov 9, 2020 5:03 PM in response to BDAqua

When I try to access this manually through the App store it says: Safari cant open the specificed address. I also tried using your link and it said the same thing.

Sport1984 Author

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Nov 9, 2020 5:05 PM in response to BDAqua

Sport1984 Author

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Nov 9, 2020 4:43 PM in response to BDAqua

When I hold Shift down during reboot nothing happens and Mac just takes me to the macOS Utilities menu.

BDAqua

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Nov 10, 2020 8:09 AM in response to Sport1984

You cannot install to MacOS Base System, I think you need an external drive to install to.

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Recovery globe just spins at 24:00