At the drive selection screen, choose Macintosh HD or whatever the name of your hard drive is, this is the drive where macOS Sierra will be. Reboot the Mac and hold down COMMAND + R keys concurrently right after you hear the boot sound, this will boot the Mac into Recovery Mode. Is there a step I am missing? Or doing wrong? Any advice would help. How to Reinstall macOS Sierra / macOS High Sierra. The only way to get this Mac working again is to restore from a Time Machine Backup. This exact same process worked perfectly on a different Mac.Is there a better way to reinstall the OS? This is how Apple’s website said to do it. The reason I’m doing this is to sell it.The latest version of MacOS this iMac supports is High Sierra (10.13).Restarting it doesn’t make a difference as it boots into Recovery Mode every time. This time it’s not because I have actively selected Recovery Mode, it just does that by default now. I can still hear that it is still turned on but I can’t wake the screen.Īfter about another 30 minutes of the screen being blank, it reboots and then loads into Recovery Mode again. Then it sits at 2 minutes for probably half an hour or so before the screen turns off. When I boot into recovery mode and select “Reinstall MacOS” everything seems to be going normally until the progress bar reaches 2 minutes remaining. I’m trying to reinstall MacOS on my 2010 iMac.
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