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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.
Make sure your WiFi is connected by clicking the WiFi icon in the top right corner then try it agin
Thank you. Changing the date fixed our issue. Which we would have known this when we were trying to update and it kept locking up.
I just came across the same issue. It appears that at that screen your wifi settings need to be entered as it is a new setup screen. This just worked for me and I’m now installing the macOS.
PLUG YOUR COMPUTER INTO POWER. I was having this issue, and as soon as I plugged it in to charge, it worked.
This just happened to me but I realised that when you erase the drive it also erases your wifi passwords as well so I wasn't connected to any kind of wifi. Sometimes it's as simple as reconnecting.
Hello, I’m having this issue but I don’t understand what you mean when you say “get a terminal windows from the recovery menu” where do I click for this ?
Try using a different network and check again. It might work.
It work for me too. Majave downgrade to sierra with bootable drive. Thank you :)
I had this issue. the wi-fi was not connected. we selected the wi-fi symbol at the top and entered password. Try reinstalling again. It's installing. Bam!
Make sure you're connected to the internet before you try to reinstall.
Its so badddddd
What you do???
There are two posts on this page that tell you what to do. Scroll up a bit.
It won't let me change the time...
iMac:~ joncancelino$ ntpdate -u time.apple.com
6 Nov 17:54:35 ntpdate[1353]: Can't adjust the time of day: Operation not permitted
This is exactly what worked for me. Thank you so much!
"Recovery server could not be contacted" Error Message
