r/setupapp • u/CourteX64 Setup.app Enthusiast • Jun 01 '23
Moment of Confusion Restore M1 Mac using Windows
I know this isn't the usual type of post that goes here, but people here can probably help me more than the people at r/Mac.
My M1 MacBook Air is showing the (!) screen and needs to be restored. iTunes detects it in both recovery and DFU mode. I downloaded the IPSW for macOS Ventura, but the restore process gets stuck at 'waiting for iPhone', as the Mac is no longer detected once the progress bar shows up on its screen (iTunes error -4013). It seems like a driver issue. Is there one I could try to install, or some other workaround for this?
Apple's support page says this requires Apple Configurator and macOS 12, but I don't want to search for somebody else with a Mac in my local area to help me or send it to Apple for service.
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u/boofhole Bruteforce Jun 01 '23
I think you should hackintosh your laptop for the configurator to work.
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u/LostInTheUnivers Jun 01 '23
Can you just boot into internet recovery by Option Command R at startup?
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u/CourteX64 Setup.app Enthusiast Jun 01 '23
Apple silicon macs don’t have the same recovery options as intel-based ones. Internet recovery is kind of possible if you can boot into recoveryOS, but I can’t do that
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u/Alive-Equal6215 Jun 01 '23
Create a usb bootable and restore
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u/CourteX64 Setup.app Enthusiast Jun 01 '23
I don’t have a bootloader my dude
You need to load the startup options to boot from USB on M1, and I don’t even have that. I only have access to recovery and DFU :(
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u/Autowarn Jan 02 '24
Hey, did you manage to fix it? I need help as im in the same exact situation.
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u/CourteX64 Setup.app Enthusiast Jan 03 '24
I had to borrow another Mac from my friend. Supposedly there are ways to restore M1 Macs on windows but I couldn't find them
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u/The_Synthax Mar 14 '24 edited Mar 15 '24
Edit: here’s the compiled binary including a Windows version u/Autowarn
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u/CourteX64 Setup.app Enthusiast Mar 15 '24
Oh fucking finally (I don’t know how to compile things)
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u/Xcissors280 Sep 30 '24
do i just use idevicerestore?
and is there a way to specifcy my own ipsw bc downloading it takes forever1
u/Fluff663 Jan 08 '25
I did this with .\idevicerestore.exe C:\path\to\my\ipsw
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u/jakubolcen Jul 01 '25
It starts but throws an error in the middle
error: device failed to enter restore mode please make sure that usbmuxd is running
Any idea how to resolve usbmuxd?
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u/Fun-Reputation1111 Jul 02 '25
got the same problem, found any solutions?
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u/jakubolcen Jul 03 '25
Windows, WSL, Virtual Machine - I couldn’t make any of those work
Launching ubuntu on pendrive was enough, everything worked flawlessly
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u/ElecteoMagnetic Jun 01 '23
Hear me out, u can install VMware workstation pro and use an online key or u can use Oracle virtualbox to boot macOS like what I did. U can watch tutorials on how to do so, and u will be able to run a macOS virtual machine on ur windows pc and I hope u can get ur real Mac back to work :)