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Beth Cooper

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Can anyone please tell me now to get my Macintosh disk drive back. I’m on the internet recovery mode as I can’t get the macOS recovery mode anymore and it doesn’t show up anywhere so I now can’t install a new macOS for my laptop or go on time machine and retrieve my last back up as there’s no drive to click. I stupidly erased my MacBook off my phone on that find iPhone app and it lost everything on my MacBook and now I’m here and it’s getting worse. I can’t seem to fix the problem.
 
Can anyone please tell me now to get my Macintosh disk drive back. I’m on the internet recovery mode as I can’t get the macOS recovery mode anymore and it doesn’t show up anywhere so I now can’t install a new macOS for my laptop or go on time machine and retrieve my last back up as there’s no drive to click. I stupidly erased my MacBook off my phone on that find iPhone app and it lost everything on my MacBook and now I’m here and it’s getting worse. I can’t seem to fix the problem.


Hopefully you actually do have a Time Machine backup..
 
Can anyone please tell me now to get my Macintosh disk drive back. I’m on the internet recovery mode as I can’t get the macOS recovery mode anymore and it doesn’t show up anywhere so I now can’t install a new macOS for my laptop or go on time machine and retrieve my last back up as there’s no drive to click. I stupidly erased my MacBook off my phone on that find iPhone app and it lost everything on my MacBook and now I’m here and it’s getting worse. I can’t seem to fix the problem.
Did you ever get this going? I would plug in your Time Machine drive, power on Mac and wait for the chime, then press and hold the OPTION key until the boot manager comes up, then select the Time Machine drive icon. When the Utility menu comes up, select Disk Utility, reformat the INTERNAL drive as GUID-MacOS extended journaled. Then select the Restore from Time Machine backup. It should let you restore from that.
 
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