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Macbook, Can't boot from USB because has no administrator in startup utility

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When I was going to reinstall a fresh copy of macOS Catalina on my MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019) , unfortunately I deleted all partitions instead of erasing them. As my internet connection is so unstable as much as I repeated installing the OS from the net, it was failing with different errors usually related to the network errors or usually it says can't decode raw data. I created a bootable media flash drive by these steps https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT201372 . Now when I want to boot the device from the USB drive, Choose startup disk it says "Security settings do not allow this Mac to use an external startup disk". Security settings do not allow this Mac to use an external startup disk I waned to allow my Mac booting from external media (as this link https://support.apple.com/en-au/HT208198) but It shows me the error: "Authentication Needed - You will need to authenticate as an Administrator to change the boot security settings." ou will need to authenticate as an Administrator to change the boot security settings. And when I click on Enter macOS Password I see this error : "Recovery is trying to change system settings. No administrator was found." Recovery is trying to change system settings. No administrator was found. Notes: * I had never set a password for my mac T2 security * I had forgotten to sign out my apple id from the MacBook Pro but I've removed my device from my apple account after that. * The MacBook Pro doesn't have any operating system now, so I can't use solutions like rm /var/db/.AppleSetupDone I've searched a lot and watched lots of youtube videos but didn't succeed anything yet. How can I fix my issue to allow me boot from the flash drive?
Asked by Ahmad Behzadi (201 rep)
Aug 2, 2020, 07:15 AM
Last activity: Apr 4, 2023, 08:42 PM