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Deleted startup disk and all updates on macbook

Well here I am. I’m in the process of selling my MacBook Pro 2017 and I did the manual process to delete everything. I did everything as told but I accidentally deleted everything so now I can’t log back in or basically do anything. When I try to erase Macintosh ID it says erase process has failed so that doesn’t work. Don’t know what to do.

Posted on Dec 30, 2021 6:50 PM

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Posted on Dec 30, 2021 7:22 PM

You need to follow the steps here to sell it (be sure to disassociate your device from your Apple ID):


https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065


if you can, use internet recovery at this point to boot into and then reinstall the OS.

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Deleted startup disk and all updates on macbook

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