A friend was supposed to boot camp my mac with wind0ows and OSX and he wiped the apple hard drive to fully install windows and now I tried command + option + R and I get this message apple.com/support -23.00F. Anyone know what I should do?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.5), Had OSX Lion on it!!!
If you've got a Retina, then it's not a hard drive. Your SSD is better than a hard drive.
Usually that message means you haven't established internet access. Do you have wired internet and an ethernet adapter? Something like this? It might work better.
It's a retina display, but I stayed on the phone with Apple support for probably 2 hours trying to figure it out, And we ended up deciding that I needed to take it to a Apple Store to see if they can put the software back on there, is there a possibility of buying a hard drive online for the computer with iOS already on it? Because when I try to open the drive as OSX it only gives me the option to open up Windows IS
, my friend deleted the entire hard drive formatted it and installed Windows and I don't know if there's a way to recover it without having a separate Mac. I tried to format the hard drive again using Windows command prompt safe mode and it still didn't work.
Again - not a hard drive. With the configuration in your signature, if it had Lion it must have been the first/second generation of the Retina MBP, which used a proprietary Apple interface SSD. Some sources seem to have Apple's OEM SSD, while OWC and Transcend sell their own versions.
OWC SSD Upgrade Kits For MacBook Pro Retina Display (2012 - 2013)
JetDrive™ 820-Transcend Information, Inc.
Here's the instructions. The 15" is the same process. It's kind of odd too, since it looks like the drive bay is big enough for a hard drive, but then there's the SSD in a subassembly that takes up about 2/3 of the bay using a spacer.
MacBook Pro 13" Retina Display Late 2012 SSD Replacement - iFixit
I don't know of any company that sells an SSD complete with operating system unless it comes in a computer. That would generally be a violation of Apple's licensing terms. Only OEMs are allowed to do that, but Apple doesn't license its OS for anyone else's machine. You would need to do it yourself. It should be pretty easy to do it with Internet Recovery, which will allow you to run Disk Utility to format a new drive or reformat yours, then do a clean install of the version of OS X that came with your machine.
I'd recommend getting an external drive and performing regular backups. At least have a bootable clone that you can use to at least operate if the internal drive fails. If you have that it would be really easy to recover.
Now the code is apple.com/support -21.00F
I held down command key after chime to open up all the operating systems and all that shows is one for windows xp
Apple hard drive
