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{A1989 / EMC3214}—Released in July 2018, the 13" MacBook Pro features quad-core i5 and i7 processors and Intel Iris Plus integrated graphics.

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I accidently erased everything from my HDD. Can’t use internet recover

Hello everybody

So, yesterday i wanted to re-install my 2018 MacBook Pro, but by accident i did’nt just ‘erase’ my partitions, i actually removed them by using the ‘-‘ (minus button) in disk utility. Now my Macbook won’t start internet recovery, which is very strange, it always gives error ‘-1008f’, and i tried several different networks (ethernet and wifi) but still.


So i thought i’d make a bootable USB stick with macOS Big Sur on it, the stick should work fine but my Macbook apparently does’nt accept it… when i press the Options key while booting, i can select the USB stick but when entering it just goes into internet recovery again… very strange issue, and all the hardware from my Mac should be working fine, everything workes untill i erased the partitions. I don’t know what to do anymore, and i hope someone here vould help me? I will add a few screenshots.

Thank you so much in advance

Nick

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You may have solved this already, bit the solution for many people has been to remove the Mac from find a phone and devices on Icloud. It's the activation that's messing things up.

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If you have another computer you may be able to reformat the drive for this machine using Target Disk Mode. To learn how to use Target Disk Mode, check here. Once the problem laptop is in Target Disk Mode and connected to another Mac you should be able to view the drive in Disk Utility and reformat it. Make sure you choose the Show All Devices option in Disk Utility.

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Nick Sneyders will be eternally grateful.
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