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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 had the same issue after I wiped the drive on my MacBook Pro. When you wiped the drive you selected the wrong format. All you need to do is simply go to disk utilities and erase the drive again, but this time select APFS (Encrypted) rather than just APFS. You may now click Reinstall macOS High Sierra. Side note, make sure you have internet connection in your status bar.
double check you are connected to the internet, after you wipe your drive you could lose wifi settings.
Worked AT ONCE for me and I am very grateful!
Ivar
Make sure you are connected to Wifi! It sounds silly but you have to sign in separately to your Wifi when reinstalling 🙂
Yup!! Thanks... totally worked!
I have the same problem after I wrote the date correctly. What can I do now? Please help.
check your wifi. check your wifi. check your wifi.
Reply to Jo Desmet: when setting the time in Terminal, it didn’t work for me until I set the time in UTC time zone, that this London UK.
Your awesome thanx!
Thanks for this. After I set the date then went back to do the install I got the same error but after rebooting it came up doing the Internet recovery. Cheers!!
Make sure you’re connected to WiFi and it should work
I looked everywhere. You solved it! Thank you!!!
Can someone remind me why Internet is required to reinstall the OS or recover from a catastrophic crash?!?!
Great info. Worked for me!
This just happened to me and I found out that all I had to do was connect my Mac to an internet connection and then it worked after I restarted it
OMG, this actually worked!
Thank you!!
"Recovery server could not be contacted" Error Message
