I'm not especially concerned about my qualifications. 5 Macs at home running everything from Leopard to High Sierra. I've rescued multiple systems that the owners had given up on. I've been working with Apple systems since the ][c. Check support comments for the APFS preboot volume issues - everything out there states you need to run Internet Recovery to address this. There is no reason for me to expect that the recovery partition wouldn't work to reset the system to OOB condition - except it doesn't. Easy fix on a new system is remove existing user profile and start fresh. Migration Assistant didn't function as expected (zero opportunity to merge user profiles as expected - grayed out). Worked fine, but when I tried to run Migration Assistant once my old machine was available, I could not import data. What's going on? Am I doing something wrong? I've been trying to get this dumb thing to work for over a week now and I'm at my wit's end! Shows that its starting internet recovery again Prompts me to select wifi network (I've connected to the router via CAT 5e cable, so I don't know why this is) Select bootable disk (by clicking up arrow) Was running Monterey, trying to reinstall MontereyĪttempted internet recovery about 10 times, but it failed after about 2-3 hours each timeĬhecked my internet speeds, reporting about ~320 Mbps via wifiįollowed the article to create install media (32GB Thumbdrive, connected via CalDigit USB 3.0 hub purchased from Apple ~1 year ago) Terminated employee, had to erase the drive because we did not have their credentials MacBook trying to use Internet recovery even after I've connected install media 2021 MacBook Pro (has not been linked to my account yet)

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