volume erased and macOS can’t install

Volume erased and no recovery options available. Any idea how to install Monterey after hard drive partitioned?

Posted on Aug 16, 2022 4:32 PM

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ku4hx

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Aug 17, 2022 12:53 PM in response to zamsl

Partition or not, this is what you do.

You have to have a working Mac to make the flash drive: How to create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support

The article also includes OS installation.

Having given no details on your Mac, this is just a guess that it's modern enough for this to be applicable.

zamsl Author

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Aug 17, 2022 1:02 PM in response to ku4hx

Thanks for your comment.

Reported issue was resolved by using local ethernet instead of Wi-Fi and it recovered to Catalina then upgraded to Monterey (I gave up the trial version of Ventura) since it was blocking the Wi-Fi for no reason.

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