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i was trying to reinstall Mac OS High Sierra in my older Macbook Pro and it gave me a message "could not create a preboot volume for APFS install and thats as far as it went..? what can I do?

i was trying to reinstall Mac OS High Sierra in my older Macbook Pro and it gave me a message "could not create a preboot volume for APFS install and thats as far as it went..? what can I do?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13

Posted on May 9, 2021 6:35 AM

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Posted on May 9, 2021 6:44 AM

If the Internal Drive is a Rotational Hard Drive the drive needs to be formatted as HFS Journaled with the GUID Partition Map. If the Internal Drive is and Original Apple SSD - suggest to format to same HFS / GUID. During the Installation process - High Sierra will decide if it will convert the drive to the APFS / GUID

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May 9, 2021 6:44 AM in response to Jaymonsalve

If the Internal Drive is a Rotational Hard Drive the drive needs to be formatted as HFS Journaled with the GUID Partition Map. If the Internal Drive is and Original Apple SSD - suggest to format to same HFS / GUID. During the Installation process - High Sierra will decide if it will convert the drive to the APFS / GUID

i was trying to reinstall Mac OS High Sierra in my older Macbook Pro and it gave me a message "could not create a preboot volume for APFS install and thats as far as it went..? what can I do?

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