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How to recover a Deleted Hard Drive during macOS reinstallation

So I was trying to erase my mac drive so I can reinstall macos but I ended up deleted my entire hard drive and now when I try to install my mac again it always says “The recovery server could not be contacted”. what do I do? I bought a bootable disk and it’s still not working.


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iMac 27″, macOS 10.13

Posted on May 17, 2023 3:27 PM

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Posted on Jan 3, 2024 1:44 PM

This is what I'm currently trying to do. I've watched this video. Hopefully it'll help someone. It's going into terminal and changing the OS download link so it now works to download High Sierra.


I no longer received the “The recovery server could not be contacted” error


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouNQS36dIBw&t=95s

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How to recover a Deleted Hard Drive during macOS reinstallation

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