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Hello! Let me start off by saying I’m an idiot. I’ve reformatted this Mac 5 times but this time $@$* hit the fan. When I went to the disk utility page after I deleted Macintosh HD partition (whoops) things went south… Now instead of Macintosh HD I have disk0s2…I’m also unable to find any start up diskI’m unable to replace OS X MojaveA blinky &&^& you folder with a question mark comes upCmd + R asks does an internet thing and sends me to the Utility page where everything still is the sameI’ve tried installing another operating system but it’s a no go.I’ve tried all different modes of starting up. First person with the answer wins a case of beer. I’m dead serious.
How to use Internet Recovery to reinstall macOS Shut down your Mac.Hold down Command-Option/Alt-R and press the Power button. …Hold down those keys until you a spinning globe and the message “Starting Internet Recovery. …The message will be replaced with a progress bar. …Wait for the MacOS Utilities screen to appear.
Well it does sound like you’ve done your self in here. At this point you’ll need to rebuild your disk. Lets first review some differences Between Sierra (HFS+) and the newer High Sierra & Mojave (APFS) file systems. Both sit on top of GUID formatted volume. Unlike HFS+ which can only has a single monolithic structure on top of the GUID Volume, APFS uses ‘Containers’ which allows it to have multiple structures ‘Volumes’ within the flat GUID partition. So the ‘Device Volume’ disk0s2 is one of these volumes. The ‘Device Volume’ Macintosh HD was deleted from what I gather. And it sounds like the recovery partition is also damaged. So we need to create a bootable OS installer USB Thumb drive following this guide How to create a bootable Mojave installer drive If you want to get back to Mojave. Frankly, I really recommend you stick with Sierra How to create a bootable macOS Sierra installer drive The older SATA based systems run better with the older HFS+ file system.
