Hello. I bought a used 2017 13 inch macbook pro, I tried formatting it and waited 6 hours for it to install macOS high Sierra just to get a black screenat the end, when I boot into recovery and try to wipe the disk again, I get all these volumes i don't understand. Btw i chose afps encrypted the first time. Can you help please?
Also recovery takes 20 minutes to load!
You need to format it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The High Sierra installer has problems with APFS drives.
It will convert the drive to APFS during the install, but it seems to choke on an already formatted APFS drive.
You need to format it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled). The High Sierra installer has problems with APFS drives.
It will convert the drive to APFS during the install, but it seems to choke on an already formatted APFS drive.
I am back and hurray!! It installed High Sierra successfully, turns out I just needed to go into Internet Recovery mode command+option+R instead of regular Recovery and wait for it to install patiently.
Thank you so much for helping me through the process and explaining everything, much appreciated :D Gotta go enjoy my new device now! Bye!
I didn't look at that. Looks quite odd.
Does it have two SSD's?
What does it show if you select APPLE SSD?
Also, go to Utilities menu and select Terminal.
In the Terminal, type these commands and post the results.
diskutil list
diskutil ap list
Also, are you booting into Internet Recovery or regular Recovery? Internet loads from Apple's servers, so it can be slow to boot.
MabKaoutar wrote:
I am actually worried there is something wrong with the ssd,
Did you try running First Aid on it in Disk Utility?
I figured out that I actually wasn't on internet recovery mode, and I went into it this time, and it is actually installing high sierra now, fingers crossed
For me, the progress bar has never been particularly accurate and I've seen it hang up for a while.
Do you have access to another Mac where you could download the Sierra or High Sierra installer? You could make a bootable installer from that onto a USB stick. How to create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support
I think you are in Internet Recovery, so it may take a bit of time. How long has it been stuck at that point?
There is another macbook available to download the os but i don't have any adapters for my USB drive, it's a type A and my macbook pro had only type c ports. I will keep that in mind though if the internet installation doesn't work and buy adapters o a new USB drive.
This is what I get.
Thank you for answering, but which volume should i erase? The Apple SSD one?
I actually erased that Apple ssd volume and named it apple ssd, and chose mac os journaled, now it looks like this
That should do it. Try installing the OS onto that.
I tried, it says it is installing macOS sierra and it says 6 minutes left but does nothing
More than 6 minutes, I will try again and wait and see how it goes from there
Keep in mind that this is my first apple product, and I am very frustrated and confused about everything, so maybe I just need to calm down and be patient xD
Did a factory reset, took 6 hours to install, black screen.
