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Jacoblee23

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I was on High Sierra beta and decided to sell my 2015 MacBook Pro since I upgraded to the 2017 touchbar one. I created a bootable
Installer of Sierra on my flash drive and tried to install Sierra on the 2015 Pro to sell and I got the error while preparing installation in the final three seconds of the installation. I read online sometimes it’s an issue with the computers time so I changed it to my time in the terminal. Second time around same error. Now my MacBook is bricked. Can’t sell it now or use it. What do I do?
 
Use Internet recovery. Hold command-option-r at start and select your wifi. You will see a spinning globe while the recovery utility downloads. Once it does, use Disk Utility to erase the entire disk then reinstall the OS.
 
Use Internet recovery. Hold command-option-r at start and select your wifi. You will see a spinning globe while the recovery utility downloads. Once it does, use Disk Utility to erase the entire disk then reinstall the OS.

Thank you. You're awesome.
 
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