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#Mac could not create a preboot volume for apfs install how to

#Mac could not create a preboot volume for apfs install install

If you too got the error "could not create a Preboot Volume for APFS install" when reinstalling macOS Hight Sierra, you can learn from this article about why High Sierra installation is stopped by APFS install failure and how to fix the error. The error only appears when users try to erase their Macs and reinstall macOS High Sierra. What can I do now?"Īnswer: The error "Could not create a Preboot Volume for APFS install" is relatively new to Mac users. I tried to reinstall the MacOS, but after downloading it says that it was unable to create a preboot volume for APFS to install. Unfortunately, after I restarted it, a slashed circle would appear. I guess the worst case scenario is that I have to buy the USB drive, but I'd really like to avoid that.Question: " I wanted to start fresh with my Mac, so I put it in recovery mode and erased the storage. Will they?Īs I said, I have the files I care about backed up, so I'm not concerned about data loss per se, I just need an OS on the computer.

So, my question is, what should I do? I'm hoping that if I go to an Apple store, they can just give me a fresh install of Lion. So basically, the computer won't boot at all (obviously) since all it has is a blank hard drive.

#Mac could not create a preboot volume for apfs install mac os

I now recognize that I should have looked into this more, since apparently in erasing the Mac OS partition, I also erased the Recovery Partition, or at least when removing the the Mac OS partition I removed the ability to boot into the recovery mode. I assumed, wrongly, that the recovery mode was on a seperate partition (as it is, for example, on a Thinkpad), such that I could erase the partition with the OS actually on it but still boot into the recovery mode, and thereby install the OS on a pristine hard drive. At this point, I figured that the errors on the hard drive or the encryption were what was preventing me from re-installing the OS using recovery mode, so I figured that I should just format the Mac OS partition.

#Mac could not create a preboot volume for apfs install full

I (stupidly!) didn't make a Lion recovery disk (though, I should note, it's ridiculous for a computer not to come with a DVD), I didn't have any full backups. At this point, I was running low on options that I could do. I would try it, it would fail and say try again, I'd try again, it would fail, and so on. But whatever the reason, the reinstall option just would not work. What seemed to be happening is that the partition wouldn't mount.

I should mention that I had FileVault encryption on, and could not manage to get it off (the option in Disk Utility was grayed out, I tried some of the terminal commands, but that didn't work either). I thought that was going to be easy, since recovery mode comes with an option to reinstall.

There were errors in the hard drive check, repair did nothing to fix them, and so I knew that I needed to reinstall since the computer wouldn't boot into OS X. I then went in to recovery mode to try fix things, but this was to no avail. I was having a kernal panic, which then turned into not properly booting, which then turned into not booting at all, even into safe mode. How did I get in such a stupid situation you might ask? Well, I'll tell you. All of the files and stuff I care about are backed up, so I'm not worried about that, I just don't have an OS (or even a partition) on my MacBook Pro anymore. Long story short, I erased my hard drive, and I don't have any way of re-installing OS X.