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Need help on recovery mode

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I am resetting my MacBook Air and went through the recovery mode and erased HD. But stupid me didn’t realize I also needed to download the OS again so here I am stuck in Internet recovery mode which will most likely never finish. It’s telling me a 24 hour wait most likely. If I go into an Apple store can they put the OS on directly from this point to help get it back up and started? Or is there a better option?

Posted Feb 9, 2019, 5:25 PM UTC

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EmmEff•

If you’re not in a hurry and not on metered Internet access, just let it go... it needs to download about 5GB.

If you take it to the Apple Store, I think they’ll just let you download using their wifi, which will be pretty quick but you’ll still be there for more than an hour.

Or go somewhere else you can hang out for a while that has higher speed internet access.

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mayhem-8•

Yes Apple stores have NetBoot images stored on their servers so they can install macOS in about 25 minutes via a Thunderbolt to Ethernet adapter they use at the Genius Bar.

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hmartek•

Any friends who owns mac? Use their system to download osx. You will need 8gb flash drive to make bootable usb...download diskmaker x to make bootable usb.

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