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I erased my hard drive and created a new partition named "Macintosh HD" and am attempting to reinstall macOS Sierra via "Command R." The installation tries to install for about 30 minutes and finally finishes with this error. I verified the date is correct in terminal and still no luck. I've restarted and tried this several times. Same outcome each time. Please help. Thanks.

Posted on Jan 16, 2022 12:30 PM

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Posted on Jan 16, 2022 1:58 PM

Please disregard. It worked the fourth time I tried installing it.

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