What does this mean? I’m trying to reinstall macOS High Sierra! Can’t get past this error message “the recovery server could not be contacted”
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I have found one other solution to the problem. In disk utilities click on apple add and delete it, not erase, but delete it and everything else that is there. Keep only the OS X base system. Then check to make sure you have a WiFi connection and shut off the computer. You now need to boot into recovery mode and from there go to disk utilities. You should notice your sad is back along with other greets out drives. Click the apple sad and click erase, rename it as Macintosh HD, format it as OS X Extended Journaled, and choose guid partition map underneath that. You may exit utilities and click reinstall OS X, good luck:)
Wow thanks man it worked for me too.
thank you kindly, this worked like a dream
Saved my life thank you - thought I was going mad
HI could you explain this more in depth im so confused as to how to do this in order to get it started plssssss
Awesome, thanks.
In my case I had to reconnect to my wifi network (I noticed the signal icon in the upper right of my screen was greyed out).
Worked perfect! Thanks!
I did exactly what you said and it still said that the server could not be contacted. Any suggestions?
Thanks. Its working now
Hey! I tried modifying the date at the terminal, but gave me the message that "Operation not permitted". Any suggestions?
Thank you i was trying for an hour and your solution worked !!!
For those of us that have no clue how to do that, can you explain it in layman’s terms?
did not work tried sveral times it gets pretty close completing download then fails each time.
In the end reinstalled From backup Sadly installed the problems was trying to get rid of now I cannot type properly think it could be A software prob so am using my old iPad to type...😕
Go back to terminal and try this command
csrutil disable
reboot"Recovery server could not be contacted" Error Message