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Why is a flashing question mark when I boot up my mac

Hello, this is my first time using a forum because i'm frustrated.

Well, i did make a 50 gb partition in my mac for bootcamp to instal Windows.

I finished by finding it not enough so i sort of delete it was named Recovery Hd

I wanted so bad t get it back but its finished by disappearing. I did have 500gb on my hard drive ( disk utility), now i have 450.

So i thought maybe i will restart it it will work. Then the flashing questions mark appears.

What should i do, i want to keep my files.

Thank you

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Do you have another PC?

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My friend have a mac

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You'll likely need a bootable USB drive. Sounds like you wiped out the recovery partition. Find a friend with a Mac and follow this guide: How to create a bootable macOS Sierra installer drive. Then use the Option Key to get to the boot manager. Hopefully you can salvage your stuff to another drive as you're going to need to reformat your drive and reinstall your MacOS & Apps. Before you recover your data you'll need to cut it down. I would wait until I got BootCamp setup with your Windows and its Apps.

Reference: Mac startup key combinations

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Thank you, that sounds good

what do you mean by " cut it down "

"Before you recover your data you'll need to cut it down"

will i have 500gb after i retreive my data and wipe it all ?

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Sounds like you have too much saved on the drive ;-} Your creations, music, vids, etc...

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Yes, school project, filmmaking... Unfinish project(

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So i should boot mac os on a bootable usb drive, and retreive my data ? right ?

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I would start there if you can. If you can't see your stuff you'll need to get a data recovery app to get to them.

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Try, Command + R

Hope it helps

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It only shows like im gonna install. I tried first aid the drive and every thing

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I did, btw i cannot boot up....(

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I will lose my data , right . I have some important stuffs, a lot of project. That why i needed windows also:(

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