I was preparing my MacBook Pro, 15 inch retina to give to my nephew. I erased the disk and when I tried to go to recovery mode I was directed to internet recovery (never seen that before) When I try to reinstall the operating system from the internet recovery mode I get as far as selecting the destination disk for the Os but no disk is shown?
Can anyone help?
In Internet Recovery select the Disk Utility option. In the left column you should see something like Apple SSD. If you don’t your computer requires service. If you do see this, select it, delete the partition(s) and try installing the OS again.
In Internet Recovery select the Disk Utility option. In the left column you should see something like Apple SSD. If you don’t your computer requires service. If you do see this, select it, delete the partition(s) and try installing the OS again.
Info: What to do before you sell, give away, or trade in your Mac - Apple Support
Redo: How to erase your Intel-based Mac - Apple Support
"If your disk still doesn't appear in Disk Utility, or Disk Utility reports that the erase process failed, your Mac might need service. If you need help, please contact Apple Support."
After Internet recovery loads up are you able to see Disk Utility?
It sounds like your drive has multiple partitions. See this article on how to delete partitions (start with the last partition in the list and work your way up). Once you’ve deleted them all you can repartition.
After erasing, you can close the disk utility window and get back with reinstalling macOS.
Many thanks Sharhari.
Thanks for your response. I have already erased my MacBook Pro hard drive. I think this is what has caused my problem.
I have restarted my MacBook in recovery mode and I am directed to internet recovery. That loads up and when I select the "reinstall Mac OS" I select that and agree but when the window opens with the message "select the disk to install the operating system" there is no disk shown?
Hi there and thanks for your response.
I do see the apple SSD in the left pane of utilities.
When I select the apple SSD it shows the partition layout as "current" and the window says "disk0s2"
The instructions in the right hand section star: " To erase and partition the selected disk, choose a layout from the partition layout pop-up menu, set options for each partition and click apply"
I don't know what to do here?
Do I select 1 2 or any other number of partitions? and what options should I select for the partitions?
when I open disk utility, in the left pane I can see the apple SSD and below that it shows disk0s2
then there is a horizontal, line and below it it shows disk 1 and linked below that it says "OS X Base system.
In the main pane the partition layout shows "Current" in the pop-up window
Ok, done that.
It now shows the apple SSD and linked below it says Untitled.
It still has a horizontal line in the left window below the SSD info and that shows "disk1" and linked below it OS X Base system
Select your apple SSD and erase it.
No Destination disk when trying to reinstall OS from internet recovery mode
