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I have been trying for a few days, but I have not been able to get my mac into Recovery mode. I formatted the laptop and erased data from Mac utility also deleting macOs base system, the recovery partition. I bought the Macbook Pro 2019 used. Last time it had my iCloud id. I wanted to resell it. Now I have tried more than 20 times to get into recovery Command + R or Command + Option + R. I get error -2003f sometimes similar -1000f. 1005f (different number of same error) and it keeps failing after loading for few minutes. Tried with 2 different WiFi networks, but with the same issue.

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I looked at Youtube videos and internet postings mentioned to boot via USB but can't boot, it displays a "stop" screen. In some forum its mentioned that boot through usb might be disabled. It's getting really frustrating. I have been trying for a week and no fix.

Does anyone have any Idea? I am in a country where there is no Apple store unfortunately. Any suggestion how to fix this?

Prohibit stop sign error

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  • Do you have a second Mac available?
    – pion
    Commented Dec 22, 2021 at 18:18
  • Yes I do have access to another mac. @pion
    – Amir Dora.
    Commented Dec 23, 2021 at 19:18

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So I figured out what was causing the issue. The country I am in has some strict censorship and as a result apple server was blocked from accessing.

METHOD 1 : I downloaded a VPN and Shared VPN over WiFi Hotspot, connected through the VPN-enabled wifi and the recovery was successful.

METHOD 2: Incase method 1 doesn't work, and if you have access to second macbook pro, you can run Apple Configurator restore or revive software. More here

Appreciated everyone's help in this regard.

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Fix with following steps in this article

https://portallaptop.com/blog/2831/2022/05/02/macbook-error-2003f/

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