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I have a MacBook PRO earlyPro Early 2011 and iI had it with High Sierra OS, as imI'm going to sell it i tryedI tried to revert to factory settings via recovery... the thing is that it shows an error and didintdidn't install it.

I was touching stuff in terminalTerminal following some guides iI found online and i makeI made things worse, the thing is that now the Mac only boots to internetInternet recovery, and when i try to install MacOs lionmacOS Lion (the only option iI have in recovery) it shows an error and doesntdoesn't download.

i tryedI tried to make an USB bootable USB from windowsWindows with Sierra OS but the Mac doesntdoesn't see it (iI used transmacTransmac because i dontdon't have access to another macMac to make it from there).

The other thing that i dontI don't understand is that when iI use the disk utilityDisk Utility to erase the disk it doesntdoesn't show "HFS extended journaled"Extended Journaled", just "macos plus case sensitive"macOS Plus Case Sensitive, encrypted"Encrypted", etc.

imI'm truly desperate, i dontI don't know what to do.

Sorry for my english.

I have a MacBook PRO early 2011 and i had it with High Sierra OS, as im going to sell it i tryed to revert to factory settings via recovery... the thing is that it shows an error and didint install it.

I was touching stuff in terminal following some guides i found online and i make things worse, the thing is that now the Mac only boots to internet recovery, and when i try to install MacOs lion (the only option i have in recovery) it shows an error and doesnt download.

i tryed to make an USB bootable from windows with Sierra OS but the Mac doesnt see it (i used transmac because i dont have access to another mac to make it from there).

other thing that i dont understand is that when i use the disk utility to erase the disk it doesnt show "HFS extended journaled", just "macos plus case sensitive, encrypted", etc.

im truly desperate, i dont know what to do.

Sorry for my english.

I have a MacBook Pro Early 2011 and I had it with High Sierra OS, as I'm going to sell it I tried to revert to factory settings via recovery... the thing is that it shows an error and didn't install it.

I was touching stuff in Terminal following some guides I found online and I made things worse, the thing is that now the Mac only boots to Internet recovery, and when i try to install macOS Lion (the only option I have in recovery) it shows an error and doesn't download.

I tried to make an bootable USB from Windows with Sierra but the Mac doesn't see it (I used Transmac because i don't have access to another Mac to make it from there).

The other thing that I don't understand is that when I use Disk Utility to erase the disk it doesn't show "HFS Extended Journaled", just "macOS Plus Case Sensitive, Encrypted", etc.

I'm truly desperate, I don't know what to do.

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My Mac only boots to internet recovery and doesnt install MacOs

I have a MacBook PRO early 2011 and i had it with High Sierra OS, as im going to sell it i tryed to revert to factory settings via recovery... the thing is that it shows an error and didint install it.

I was touching stuff in terminal following some guides i found online and i make things worse, the thing is that now the Mac only boots to internet recovery, and when i try to install MacOs lion (the only option i have in recovery) it shows an error and doesnt download.

i tryed to make an USB bootable from windows with Sierra OS but the Mac doesnt see it (i used transmac because i dont have access to another mac to make it from there).

other thing that i dont understand is that when i use the disk utility to erase the disk it doesnt show "HFS extended journaled", just "macos plus case sensitive, encrypted", etc.

im truly desperate, i dont know what to do.

Sorry for my english.