Questions tagged [recovery]
An OS X feature that hides a Recovery HD on Macs to facilitate maintenance, recovery and reinstallation if the OS becomes corrupt. Topic of recovery-mode-ios, data-recovery or file-recovery are unrelated to the recovery category here.
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What does the command 'recoverydiagnose' do?
The command /usr/bin/recoverydiagnose is found when using Terminal in Recovery Mode on a MacBook running macOS 12.6.3
What does it do?
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How to repair a hard drive in recovery mode?
I was trying to copy a 2011 iMac hard drive to a SSD to use on my
M2 Mac mini. I tried to copy it and received errors.
I went to disk utility in recovery mode and got an error message that said unable ...
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Why didn't rsync copy the contents of my Pictures folder?
I used rsync to copy my entire user folder from an older Macbook Air that is failing onto a new Mac, using Recovery Mode's "Share Disk" feature. Now I'm digging through the copy, moving ...
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2018 MacBook Pro bricked after failed update(Errors: 75;2015;4017;16383)
Currently, my 2018 MacBook Pro 13"(4-Thunderbolt USB-C) Model A1989 with a T2 security chip will not boot, even into Recovery Mode. The closest I can get is to booting is the Apple Logo with a ...
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Unable to reset password because there is no user account after erase install in recovery terminal
I am unable to reset password because there is no user account after erase install in recovery terminal. I tried steps before to create a user in terminal but those did not work (so I am not ...
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Recovery options from bootable external (mac) drive
Trying to recover data from an internal drive that does not startup. I used an external drive to install a bootable mac and see the internal drive listed in disk utility.
I cannot seem to access the ...
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Data recovery from a [failing? corrupted?] Apple SSD - MacBook Pro (Early 2015, Intel-based)
I believe I am in quite a lot of trouble, and I am in desperate need for some professional advice. It would mean a lot to me if the good people of this forum can share their expertise with me.
My ...
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How to recover/flash an iPhone 3G that freezes during boot?
The phone properly shows the low battery screen when charging, then once it has enough to boot the apple logo appears —although it has some wierd curved lines through it that are hard to get on camera—...
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MacBook Data Recovery
I have a MacBook Air 2017. Out of the blue, I opened the MacBook and was confronted with the question mark. The Mac would only boot in recovery mode.
In internet recovery mode, I copied the internal ...
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MacBook Air 2020 Intel T2 stuck with Internet Recovery and possible bad battery
I need some help to revive a MacBook Air Retina / Intel, early 2020 (T2 chip). I bought it from the former owner, who did not use it for a year, and the machine did not start anymore.
I finally ...
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How to properly partition a Fusion Drive on a late 2019 iMac whilst also making the first partition usable to install macOS? [duplicate]
Currently, my iMac has no active macOS on it. And the Fusion Drive shows up as two volumes.
I am trying to come up with ways to fix the Fusion Drive, install macOS on it(but then how to make Fusion ...
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How to delete macOS Recovery partition in Apple silicon device
My questions are:
How can I delete the 5.5GB Apple Recovery partition?
Any massive reasons why I should not delete it?
Why I want to delete it:
My (M2 Air) has a fat ~5.5GB partition for "...
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Help with recovering from a formatted external SSD
I have a SanDisk 2TB SSD which I had partitioned with GUID PT in roughly (as I remember)
NTFS: 250GB
APFS: 1TB
exFAT: 750GB
While connected to an android device I was trying to format only the exFAT ...
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Install MacOS High Sierra from USB using built in recovery's terminal command line
I can boot my old MacBook Air A1370 neither from Mavericks nor from High Sierra bootable installation USB sticks. Unfortunately I have no other Mac at hand so I can not check if they are really ...
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Try DFU mode for iPad (A1709) recovery
I'd like to try DFU mode for my iPad (A1709) recovery.
Background:
I was prompted to update iOS and experienced failures with repeated retry attempts. This wasn't a major issue, but I grew tired of ...