I deleted my Macintosh HD hard drive Trying to reset my passwords I have no start up disk or reinstallation disk when my MacBook Pro starts up it has a blinking file with ? Can someone please help me get my MacBook Pro back up and running
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I completely deleted my Macintosh hd
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You can't delete your Macintosh HD when you're booted from it. The system will not allow that. Try booting into recovery and tell us what you see by using Disk Utility from Utilities. Boot to recovery by pressing Command + R when you hear the boot chime. Keep holding those keys down until you see the Apple appear.
It goes into disc utility the Macintosh HD pops up but it won’t boot I don’t know what to do
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[doublepost=1508091470][/doublepost]I just keep getting a blinking folder with a question mark
Unfortunately nothing in disc utility is helping I cannot restore from time machine backup I cannot reinstall OS X or recover from disc utility is there anymore suggestions
If your hard drive appears (including the name of your hard drive) in Disk Utility, then you should be OK --- just reinstall OS X. Easy to do that from the "recovery mode" system menus. You won't lose your own files, or apps that you might have installed.
Notice that you can see some other choices at the time that you select Disk Utility. One of those other choices is "Reinstall OS X" (it will show "Reinstall macOS" on a newer system, but it's the same process!)
This reinstall just copies a fresh set of your operating system files. Then, restarts, finishes the install with those downloaded files. The install process might take more than 30 minutes, but you should boot back into your hard drive, no harm done.
Notice that you can see some other choices at the time that you select Disk Utility. One of those other choices is "Reinstall OS X" (it will show "Reinstall macOS" on a newer system, but it's the same process!)
This reinstall just copies a fresh set of your operating system files. Then, restarts, finishes the install with those downloaded files. The install process might take more than 30 minutes, but you should boot back into your hard drive, no harm done.
It goes right to a blinking folder with a question mark when I press alt it brings me to is x utilities but nothing there is helping
It says error occurred while preparing the installation try running application again and it keeps say the same thing
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It won’t it just goes to a file with a question mark
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You are in the right place 
Choose "Reinstall OS X", and continue with that.
Make sure that your Macintosh HD is selected, when it asks for the destination for the install, and that should be all you need to do.
*** What are you using for an internet connection? ***
Choose "Reinstall OS X", and continue with that.
Make sure that your Macintosh HD is selected, when it asks for the destination for the install, and that should be all you need to do.
*** What are you using for an internet connection? ***
hmmm go back to disc utility and click your hard drive. click the top one in your pic
Wifi as an internet connection should I use a Ethernet cable insteadYou are in the right place
Choose "Reinstall OS X", and continue with that.
Make sure that your Macintosh HD is selected, when it asks for the destination for the install, and that should be all you need to do.
*** What are you using for an internet connection? ***
you shouldn't have to but use one. power off and then power on and hold command + r
All those things on the left are greyed out
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Neither one work
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erase option
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do you have a backup at all?
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click the Macintosh HD
I have no back up but on the top one I can create a partition By the way I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing
can you tell if there is anything on the hard drive? there should be a file size
[doublepost=1508093189][/doublepost]you can find this by clicking the Macintosh HD. take a pic