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[HELP] Crossed-out circle

lewismacspire

lewismacspire

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Okay here’s the context,
I just bought a late 2011 Macbook Pro on ebay. When I booted up, it showed a crossed-out circle. So I did the usual ram reset and smc thing and still didn’t work. I tried internet recovery and after the 10 mins loading time it still showed a crossed-out circle. So I tried again and again and finally got to boot the recovery mode. Did a check of the drives and everything was normal. Then I had to reboot for some reason and got the crossed-out circle several times making me waste several minutes of my life (yeaah). So I made a High Sierra bootable usb and it worked !
I installed a new copy of macOS which I ran while I was away from home. When I came back it was about to be completed then it rebooted and it went in a reboot loop forever.

What do I do now ??

I’m tired
 
The crossed-out circle pretty much means that there's a problem with the OS install (that's on the hard drive) and it's not capable of booting that Mac.

You have a bootable USB installer with High Sierra?
You can boot to the installer utility?

Then follow these next steps (will wipe out everything on the internal drive):
1. Boot from USB installer
2. DO NOT run the OS installer yet. Quit it and open Disk Utility
3. With DU open, check popup menu on upper left. It should read "show all devices"
4. Select the "topmost" device listed (which represents the physical hard drive inside)
5. Click "erase" (set it up for Mac OS extended with journaling enabled).
6. When done, go to DU's "repair disk" button. Click it and let it run.
7. Do you "get a good report" on the drive? If so, REPEAT THIS TEST 5 times. Do you get a good report every time?
8. If so, quit DU and re-open the OS installer.
9. Try re-installing the OS again, and see how that goes.
 
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Fishrrman said:
The crossed-out circle pretty much means that there's a problem with the OS install (that's on the hard drive) and it's not capable of booting that Mac.

You have a bootable USB installer with High Sierra?
You can boot to the installer utility?

Then follow these next steps (will wipe out everything on the internal drive):
1. Boot from USB installer
2. DO NOT run the OS installer yet. Quit it and open Disk Utility
3. With DU open, check popup menu on upper left. It should read "show all devices"
4. Select the "topmost" device listed (which represents the physical hard drive inside)
5. Click "erase" (set it up for Mac OS extended with journaling enabled).
6. When done, go to DU's "repair disk" button. Click it and let it run.
7. Do you "get a good report" on the drive? If so, REPEAT THIS TEST 5 times. Do you get a good report every time?
8. If so, quit DU and re-open the OS installer.
9. Try re-installing the OS again, and see how that goes.
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So I did all what you said and made a Sierra bootable USB instead of High Sierra but it was not in the choices when I booted while holding the option key. When I went to the DU again I could see the USB stick there and ran verify and repair and it came positive. I rebooted several times but no luck there. I then booted using option-command-shift-r
to download osx Lion because this is the only one that worked so far. The usual command-r gave me the crossed-out circle after the 10 minutes download. So I installed Lion overnight and it took like 17 hours and the progress bar was still at the same place before I went to bed.
I opened the installer log and everything seemed okay to me. I don’t know what to do. This is so time consuming.
I am making a new usb stick again with Sierra to see if there was an error in the process.
 
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