can't boot from bios because i accidentally wiped out the wrong drive during factory reset, please help

after accidentally deleting the wrong drive on the macbook, i tried to do a factory restart... then on boot i see ( -sh-3.2#)

Posted on Jan 28, 2021 10:09 AM

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DonH49

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Jan 29, 2021 8:56 AM in response to mjimenez1

see if this will work

mjimenez1 Author

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Jan 29, 2021 10:11 AM in response to DonH49

Thank you... I will definitely try this today... I will keep you posted...

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