So I just got my laptop back after a year away from the office and forgot my password. Luckily there is easy advice online about Power + Command + R to get into recovery mode. Trouble is from there I get stuck… tThe advice is > Go to the Apple Menu at the top and click Utilities But as you can see in the screen shot, there is no Apple many at the top with option Utilities — only “Restart | Shut Down”. I must be doing something wrong! Yes I could reset from Apple ID, but it spent stay connected to my internet, probably because it’s a new network here:

I have a macbook Air 128 GB (2017) model. It was working fine, until I decided to reset it. I restarted and went into recovery mode, into Disk Utility and erased the “Macintosh HD” volume group. After that, the disk utility menu showed only the Apple SSD Volume, at which point I restarted the mac. It showed a folder with a question mark instead of the apple logo, which seemed fair since I had deleted the default startup volume. But, the issue was that I wasn’t able to go into the built-in recovery mode after that. Whenever I try to go into recovery mode now, It automatically goes to internet recovery which doesn’t even show a progress bar, just keeps failing and shows the error code 1003f. I tried the following already: 1. Resetting the NVRAM 2. Using an ethernet cable during Internet Recovery. 3. Tried to change my Startup Disk. Also, it shows Internet Recovery as the only option in this mode. I don’t know what to do now, please help.

I have a problem with my MacBook, after erasing the SSD hard disk, I try to reinstall it by Utility and had a problem like the image below.  It stuck on the step because “INIT transmit failed” Then, I try to reinstall my recovery from the internet and got a problem like that. Does anyone know the -1008F meaning? please help. **Solved**: The problem happened again to me last month when I tried to reinstall my Mac from the Internet. I tried it many times, but did not succeed, I suffered on the internet and found that I still not remove the MacBook from iCloud. I tried and succeeded, so I think if anyone has the same problem as me, you should follow my way first.

How can I confirm the files and folders visible in macos base system (seen via disk utility when booting into recovery (CMD r)) are standard? Attached are photos of part of it. Any help appreciated. " class="img-fluid rounded" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto; margin: 10px 0;" loading="lazy">

I have a MacBook Air 2017. Out of the blue, I opened the MacBook and was confronted with the question mark. The Mac would only boot in recovery mode. In internet recovery mode, I copied the internal disk (dd conv=noerror,sync) to an external hard drive. Whilst I did create a 250GB disk image, I'm not sure of the quality of it, as I received many ‘disk not configured’ messages in the process. With that disk image from the external drive in another MacBook Air 2017, I used hdiutil imageinfo which said there were seven partitions on the disk image. I then used test disk/ file system utils which showed two partitions an EFI partition and an APFS. I created an image of the APFS partition which was 250GB but when I run **photorec** on that (writing to a second external hard drive) it hasn’t recovered any files. Any advice on next best steps or things that I need to do/ haven’t done. Would be hugely appreciated. Edit: A previous attempt at running photo rec on the full disk image yielded a 250GB plist file. Edit2: I can now use target disk mode to see the disk on another MacBook. However it fails to mount. DDRescue currently running and making slow progress.

I was trying to update my iPhone X (GSM) from iOS 12.3.1 to iOS 14.0.1 **The following steps was carried:** 1- Downloading the latest firmware ipsw (size 4.61 GB) from iPhone10,3,iPhone10,6_14.0.1_18A393_Restore.ipsw from ipsw.me 2- Downloading the latest iTunes on my Windows 10 PC 3- Connecting the iPhone by an original USB cable to my PC 4- Locating my iPhone and pressing "Shift" button from my keyboard and pressing on the Update from iTunes 5- Selected the ipsw which was previously downloaded. 6- During in the middle of the update, an error came out with a code # 14. 7- My iPhone got stuck permanently on the iTunes logo 8- Tried for several times to exit the Recovery Mode by Pressing and quickly release the Volume Up button. Press and quickly release the Volume Down button. Then, press and hold the Side button. it just keep restarting and getting back into the Recovery Mode. 9- Downloaded couple of software's "Tenorshare ReiBoot Pro" and "3uTools" to force exit Recovery Mode, no good results. The problem here is happening because I guess that I have tried to install the updates although there was no enough storage on my iPhone. If there is anyway to delete large files in order to free space of my iPhone (while it is in Recovery Mode" it would be much appreciated. Or If there is a way to update the iPhone to any iOS that has a small ipsw size would help on this issue, bare in mind downgrading or using OTA (Over the Air) firmwares to be directly installed on my iPhone by a PC. **Note:** - There is no back up file for the iPhone - All the documents on the iPhone are needed, therefore; restoring the iPhone is not an option as it would erase all the files and bring it to its original factory settings. - The above concern was similar to this case https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/388205/iphone-stuck-on-apple-logo-because-of-storage-full-any-solution-to-delete-some but there was no answer to solve the issue. **Thinking outside the box:** If there is a way to connect the iPhone to any operating system i.e. Linux and have it connected there by entering the file explorer in order to delete some large files would help, need some experiments please.

I posted this in the Apple Discussions forums, but have yet to get an answer that applies to the depth of which this situation currently exists. My Mac's hard drive (running Mojave) suffered some corruption recently, and I found myself unable to boot into the system. I am able to boot into Recovery Mode, and my intent was to rescue the important data sitting in /Users/(my username), but to my surprise, the entire /Users/ folder is *just not there* when I try to access it via Terminal. Steps taken: 1. Boot into Recovery Mode. 2. Open up Terminal. 3. Navigate to /Volumes/(my OS drive name)/ 4. Type ls to see directory tree. I see every other folder I am expecting to see (I think), except for /Users/. It simply is not there. What I have tried: 1. Navigating to literally every partition and folder I can think of to find where /Users/ might be instead. 2. Doing "chflags nohidden" on the drive does nothing. 3. I don't believe I have FileVault on, so I don't think anything in that category would apply to my situation. I can only come up with two possible conclusions: 1. The hard drive corruption annihilated ONLY the /Users/ directory (unlikely, I assume???) 2. Recovery Mode is hiding /Users/ in a way that I cannot figure out, and this is apparently not documented anywhere on the internet. I have seen other sites/posts talking about /Users/ being hidden, but they were not referring to situations similar to mine, and were resolved with simple (somewhat obvious) steps. They were not like what I am experiencing. In the meantime, preparing for the worst, I have ordered an external drive enclosure so that I can pull the drive out of my computer and view its contents on another computer. I am very hesitant to reinstall MacOS right now, because IF /Users/ has been compromised in the corruption, I don't want to do anything further that will prevent it from being recovered somehow. In other words, I am trying not to write any new data to the drive at all. Thanks for any help or suggestions in advance.

Long story short: - I have a good working iMac 2015 5K that I wanted to sell. - I cannot do an automated factory reset on this device, so I had to go through steps. - I accidentally wiped a wrong disk, at least I think I did. - After wiping I get the folder/question mark at startup. - I restart with COMMAND + R - To get a Wi-Fi list to choose from, I connect and download certain recourses. - It reboots in a menu where you can go back to OS X (El Capitan). But when it asks on which disk I want to install, there is nothing. I cannot continue. - I did the first aid on all 3 given disks (HDD / SD and recovery) and it showed green, no faults. What should I do? Apple wanted to ship me off to a dealer, which costs me money. I know I did something 'wrong' but I need to get an OS back on my iMac. Any help is much appreciated.

I need some help to revive a MacBook Air Retina / Intel, early 2020 (T2 chip). I bought it from the former owner, who did not use it for a year, and the machine did not start anymore. I finally managed to start it up in safe mode after charging it overnight, NVRAM and SMC reset, with the battery warning sign visible. The mouse was moving very slowly over the screen. It could not normally start. As I could not lock in, I finally put it in DFU mode and managed to make a restore from Apple Configurator 2 with an iMac (MacOS 12). It now starts only in Internet Recovery mode. When I have to choose the wifi network, it gets stuck after password entry, with an endless spinning wheel. The fans run at high speed and mouse behavior is very sluggish. Even after hours, no progress. The machine is cleared off from iCloud by the former owner. I ordered a replacement battery from a 3rd party vendor and it has exactly the same behavior. The machine gets off immediately after I unplug the power cable. I managed once to start Internet Recovery in Ethernet mode. With a USB C > USB A dongle and an apple USB A > Ethernet dongle. For the first time the progress bar appeared and showed progressively up to 24:00 (min) before getting stuck again. Questions: Diagnosis ? Bad Battery only and bad replacement battery? Or other hardware issues? Any chance that the battery and speed problems resolve after internet recovery? Therapy? Another replacement battery? The vendor is not so willing to replace it. I wanted to retry internet recovery again with ethernet, ideally buying a Thunderbolt 3 > 2 and a Thunderbolt 2 > Ethernet adapter to make this work best.

I’ve been having problems with my MacBook Air (Early 2015). Since installing an update to 10.13.6 (From 10.13.3, I believe) the computer freezes once the progress bar fills up on the login screen. Rebooting has not resolved the issue. I have tried to enter safe mode and recovery mode (Command-R); the result is the same, and the computer will not transition to the recovery mode interface. Option-command-R and Shift-option-command-R generate error messages -5101 and -2003 respectively, which don’t seem to be often cited on these forums. Similarly, a PRAM/NVRAM reset has been unhelpful. Single user mode (Command-S) works fine, but I haven’t found any set of commands which has fixed my problem. Verbose mode is inconclusive, and the text stops updating after a minute or two, except for ‘busy timeout ‘IGPU’’ messages. I have also considered that this may be a hardware issue, but have never experienced problems with this laptop before. Has anyone experienced something like this before or does anyone have a possible solution? Cheers Edit: Attached are two images of the final screen before timeout messages start happening. The command line doesn’t seem entirely consistent each time I start it up: some additional messages appeared here. Unfortunately, it doesn’t let me post a video.   Note: the image at the bottom is of the latest state of the screen. Regarding Target Disk mode, I don’t have a second computer on hand right now, but I’d be able to set that up in the near future. I don’t have an external display.)  UPDATE 2:  ![enter image description here] (https://i.sstatic.net/04dfs.jpg)   These are logs after entering the command ‘exit’. I got IGPU messages after this; this time though, the syntax is ‘kextd stall, (240s): ‘IGPU’. Hopefully this is helpful, but from what I understand it could mean any number of things. Presumably the AppleKeyStore messages are also useful? 1. I now have access to another computer. Since this mode is mostly used to get files from a Mac, what specifically should I be looking out for? 2. As I mentioned initially, ‘Option-Command-R’ and ‘Shift-Option-Command-R’ don’t work either: I have since tried them again, and ‘Option-Command-R’ returns error message -5101 (after typing in correct internet password). ‘Shift-Option-Command-R’ boots into Internet Recovery (with the spinning globe), but then seems to go back to the login screen, which is always a dead end. So I guess I should be looking for any fix to this which doesn’t require the login screen to take effect. I haven’t been able to find a solution allowing me to reinstall macOS and bypass recovery mode - is that possible? EDIT: When the Mac is on, I also sporadically get the voiceover message ‘To choose English as your main language, press the ‘return’ key...’ I think this has something to do with recovery mode.

Currently, my iMac has no active macOS on it. And the Fusion Drive shows up as two volumes. I am trying to come up with ways to fix the Fusion Drive, install macOS on it(but then how to make Fusion Drive APFS to make it usable as a boot drive for macOS without destroying the logical volume structure?), and then partition the Fusion Drive into three partitions. Environment: 11.5 GB partition on SSD, main contents are a base macOS recovery image (internet installer) and macOS install drive (Catalina). The rest of the SSD is a free partition (formatted in APFS). All of HDD is a free partition (formatted in APFS). Currently, I tried: 1. Fixing my Fusion Drive, then partitioning it. (Partition Fusion Drive breaks its ability to be a valid install drive for macOS, also unknown if the corestorage system still works after being partitioned.) 2. Add multiple volumes into a logical volume group to achieve multiple drives. (Currently not possible, requires older versions of diskutil.)

My old MacBook Pro, A1286, (15in, mid-2012) has an SSD that divided my main boot disk into two partitions, one for Mac OSX (running 10.13, High Sierra) and one for Boot camp (running Windows 10). The boot partition was always MacOSX. Unfortunately, after I removed it to try to use it as an external drive, it got damaged in some way after I reinstalled it. It would not longer boot correctly was identifying as type "FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF" when I went into recovery mode and ran diskutil list from the terminal. The bootcamp partition was still bootable though. In my attempts to repair my boot partition I came across this question that seemed to be very similar to what was happening to me. I tried to follow the steps laid out by @klanomath. Two problems arose those: 1. I still got an error when I tried to verify the disk with diskutil verifyDisk disk0 (Specifically: Error: -69808: Some information was unavailable during an internal lookup Underlying error: 1: POSIX reports: Operation not permitted) 2. In trying to rebuild the partitions I removed all of them from disk0, and then tried to add them back. It seemed to go ok, but now the bootcamp partition is not recognized. Does anyone know who to restore a bootcamp partition using gpt or another method without losing the data in the partition? Thanks EDIT: Here is a image of the output of diskutil list EDIT 2: Progress - After @David Anderson pointed out an error (thank you for catching that) in the value I entered for the type, my partition for boot camp is recognized as "Windows Basic Data" type. And in Startup Disk, it shows as an option But unfortunately, when I try using Startup Disk to use it as the boot disk it won't boot still. And says; "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key" When I turn on the computer and hold down the option key it doesn't show up as an option either. Here is the output from gpt -r show /dev/disk0 And here is the output from export LC_CTYPE="ASCII";dd if=/dev/disk0s2 bs=512 count=1 | vis -cw;echo UPDATE: After updating the type of the partition to 7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC it shows as an option to boot into if I restart the computer. But it does not show in Startup Disk. And when I try to boot to disk0s2 it will hang at the apple logo with a full progress bar. I believe I have an idea of what may be complicating my situation. First a little further explanation of how my drives were arranged in the computer originally. Originally I had an HDD in the computer running OSX (10.8 I believe), then after awhile I added a second drive, an SSD (disk0) and partitioned it to have a OSX partition (disk0s2) and a bootcamp partition (disk0s3). The SSD OSX became my primary boot partition and the old HDD I used for storage, but I never removed OSX completely off of it (now listed as disk1 in diskutil) A little ago I needed to be able to use the Bootcamp partition but did not have the power adapter for the mbp, so I tried to remove the SSD and use it as an external on a different computer, that did not work, and after I placed it back into the original mbp is when disk0 s2 wasn't being recognized and I started to try to fix it. This is when I messed up my bootcamp partition and then I posted on here. I believe the OSX Recovery that I have been using is from the original HDD which only had 10.8 on it. And after doing some research it seems that maybe 10.8 can't identify the newer OSX partition (disk0s2) and that is why in Startup Disk I don't see it, but if I reboot the computer it does show up as an option. Here are the outputs that you asked for. sw_vers ls -l /Volumes/BOOTCAMP/Boot/BCD diskutil list

I've developed a kernel-extension and I'd like to load it in all possible modes which are Recovery-Mode, Safe boot and of course Normal mode. When I stored my kext bundle In /Library/Extensions From normal mode, and then restart my machine and move to Recovery Mode, I couldn't find my kext in /Library/Extensions and therefore I tend to believe that Recovery Mode uses different partition. My question is how can I access this partition from Normal mode, so when I install my driver, I can also place it where prelinked kernel can load it in Recovery Mode as well ?

I have a SanDisk 2TB SSD which I had partitioned with GUID PT in roughly (as I remember) 1. NTFS: 250GB 2. APFS: 1TB 3. exFAT: 750GB While connected to an android device I was trying to format only the exFAT partition, but it erased the entire disk.

Disk: /dev/disk4	geometry: 243197/255/63 [3906963617 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
 #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]
------------------------------------------------------------------------
 1: 0C    0  32  33 - 1023 254  63 [      2048 - 3906961536] Win95 FAT32L
 2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused      
 3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused      
 4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused

sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk4
Password:
       start        size  index  contents
           0           1         MBR
           1        2047         
        2048  3906961536      1  MBR part 12
  3906963584          33

` I am assuming that all my data would be recoverable if I am able to recreate the original partition table?? I am trying the Testdisk tool but it is not showing me the APFS and exFAT... currently on deep search it shows the following:

: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8)
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 16 (FAT) != 1 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 32 (FAT) != 1 (HD)
  FAT32 LBA                     40     409639     409600 [EFI System Partition] [EFI]
check_FAT: Unusual media descriptor (0xf0!=0xf8)
Warning: number of heads/cylinder mismatches 16 (FAT) != 1 (HD)
Warning: number of sectors per track mismatches 32 (FAT) != 1 (HD)
  FAT32 LBA                     46     409645     409600 [EFI System Partition] [EFI]
  HPFS - NTFS                 2048 3906963583 3906961536
  HPFS - NTFS                 2060 3906963595 3906961536
  HPFS - NTFS                 2060 3906963595 3906961536

I am not an advanced user but I am willing to try manual means to recreate the partiion table with experts' guidance here. Let me know what I additionally need to share here 🙏🏽. I am primarily on a mac device

I deleted MacBook Pro's disk, reinstall of Sonoma, Time Machine Backup is on a Synology DS My Time Machine Backups are password protected with the mechanism used by MacOS or Time Machine itself. I put in the wrong password when trying to add the Time Machine Volume. First it gave me something like "wrong password" and then it gave me the error in the title. How can I access this password-protected backup?

**My questions are:** * How can I delete the 5.5GB Apple Recovery partition? * Any massive reasons why I should *not* delete it? **Why I want to delete it:** My (M2 Air) has a fat ~5.5GB partition for "Apple_APFS_Recovery". Given the hard drive is 250GB this is a sizable proportion of my free space and I would rather use it. Furthermore after some investigation this seems completely useless. The actual recovery boot interface comes from another 1.1GB partition within the 'Macintosh HD' group wich is updated with the system - macOS Sequoia 15.4.1 . This "Apple_APFS_Recovery" is stuk in the past with an old version of Sequoia. Apple calls this 1TR (One true recovery), but realistically seems a waste of space, I won't be reinstalling and old macOS any time soon, and in the **unlikely** case that my system fails so badly that I need to recover using that, I could always use a bootable USB with the latest system, or DFU restore from another Mac (even -worse case scenario- involving a trip to the Apple Store Genius Bar (i.e. worth using those 5GB in the meantime. **What I have tried so far:** So far I have tried booting from a Sequoia USB, and delete the partitions with Disk Utility and also

via command line. But I have not managed to, the security chip does simply not let me and i ended up having to DFU restore it a couple of times. I have also tried to make a USB with Ubuntu ARM64, to zero the whole thing but that doesn't seem to boot; and given the mac doesn't want to boot from USB once the partitions are deleted (hence the DFU restores) I doubt that would take me anywhere better. Any ideas? Or it is just undeletable and another way for apple to take away some of my hardrive abd bully us to buy bigger hardrives than the undecent 250GB. For reference these are my partition details

list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0
   1:             Apple_APFS_ISC Container disk1         524.3 MB   disk0s1
   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk2         245.1 GB   disk0s2
   3:        Apple_APFS_Recovery Container disk3         5.4 GB     disk0s3

/dev/disk2 (synthesized):
   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +245.1 GB   disk2
                                 Physical Store disk0s2
   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            11.2 GB    disk2s1
   2:              APFS Snapshot com.apple.os.update-... 11.2 GB    disk2s1s1
   3:                APFS Volume Preboot                 6.1 GB     disk2s2
   4:                APFS Volume Recovery                1.0 GB     disk2s3
   5:                APFS Volume Data                    63.9 GB    disk2s5
   6:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk2s6

I am trying to change the secure boot settings so that I can allow booting from an external disk. Normally to do this you would go into recovery mode with command + r and then change the settings. When I try to do this, however, my mac decides to boot up using recovery mode with internet, in which I cannot change the secure boot settings from. After doing a little research, this seems to be because my Mac has a fusion drive, which is causing the regular recovery mode to not start up. My question is: how do I get into regular recovery mode on a fusion drive Mac? If I can’t, how do I change the secure boot settings without going into recovery mode?

My iPhone is "Locked to owner". I bought this phone brand new from store. It's been over a week, still no call nor wait time. No email with information sent. Apple Support nor Apple store can't help with this process, I need contact information for the Recovery department to help me straighten this out.I don't k how what to do

I can boot my old MacBook Air A1370 neither from Mavericks nor from High Sierra bootable installation USB sticks. Unfortunately I have no other Mac at hand so I can not check if they are really bootable. But I can still boot the MacBook into its built-in recovery, run terminal and read the installation USB stick's content: ProductName: Mac OS X ProductVersion: 10.7.5 BuildVersion: 11G63 I can not install MacOS from the internet using recovery's routines as the recovery can not find recovery servers for some unknown reason. Can you please suggest the correct terminal command to install MacOS High Sierra from USB using built in recovery's terminal command line?

I'm trying to get familiar with showing specific HW information from the Recovery Mode terminal for audit purposes. I'm not too savvy with recovery mode commands for terminal. I'm unable to show internal storage total disk space & available disk space, which would "show" the laptop has been wiped. Reason being, Terminal allows me to run commands to show serial number, and current date by running:

ioreg -l | grep IOPlatformSerialNumber

followed by the date command while it's connected to a network. If I could show the total & available disk space it would help tremendously. ARM Macs don't allow diskUtil eraseDisk for /dev/disk0 so can't prove a wiped disk in that way anymore. Any ideas would be appreciated.