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I can’t reinstall OS X El Captain

My MacBook Pro is in Recovery Mode. Whenever I go to the OS X El Captain option, it says: “this disk doesn’t use the GUID Parition Table Theme. Use Disk Utility to change the parition scheme. Select the disk, choose the Parition tab, select the volume scheme and then click options.” However, whenever I go to the disk utility, the Parition tab is grayed out...

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Posted on Mar 11, 2018 12:14 PM

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