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Error -5010F did I ruin my MacBook Pro?

I went through recovery and unmounted my hard drive so I can erase the data. After I erased the data I didn't want to reinstall OS X Mavericks so I shut down my MacBook Pro. After I turned it back on it won't let me get back into recovery settings the world spinning image goes on forever then shows me a error message called -5010F what does this mean? Did I just ruin my MacBook from ever being restored? Help!

MacBook Pro (13-inch Mid 2012), OS X Mavericks (10.9.2)

Posted on Apr 28, 2014 8:54 PM

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Melophage

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Posted on Apr 28, 2014 11:20 PM

Shelby LeAnne,

no, you haven’t ruined your MacBook Pro. To run OS X Internet Recovery over wi-fi, you’ll need a connection with WPA or WPA2 security; if your wi-fi connection doesn’t have that feature, then you won’t be able to restore your MacBook Pro’s original version of OS X via Internet Recovery over wi-fi — you could use a different wi-fi connection which does have that security feature, or you could use an Ethernet connection rather than a Wi-Fi connection, or you could make an appointment at an Apple store to have them restore OS X for you.