Flashing question mark folder

I downgrading my macbook pro 2015 from high sierra to sierra and after erasing my ssd i can’t select a usb with mac os or enter in recovery mode it just shows flashing question mark folder

Posted on Mar 2, 2018 1:50 PM

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Posted on Mar 2, 2018 1:56 PM

Have you tried Internet Recovery? Hold option-command-R together at power up and make sure you're connected via ethernet or that you can access WiFi that doesn't require a login (a WiFi password will work).

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Mar 3, 2018 5:03 AM in response to MarkLase

To me it looks like your recovery USB flash doesn’t contain proper macOS Installer.


You have two options if you have any kind of network accessible Ethernet or Wi-Fi, use Internet Revovery with ⌘+⌥+R right after you press power button.


Or if you have another Mac available make new Recovery USB following this article:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372


Let’s see if you can boot up at least into macOS Recovery. Then go into menu, start Terminal and run ‘diskutil list’ or ‘diskutil apfs list’ and post output here.


Good luck...

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