Nexus 5. Wiped the OS. Need Help. - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello everyone.
I wanna start this by saying that I'm very new to all this rooting and custom roms.
So I rooted my Nexus 5 and installed multirom and a couple of roms, being the tinkerer that I am, I went to the recovery settings to mess with it, and I wiped the phone clean by mistake. Everything gone, even the OS.
Now I have no idea how to fix it, any help will be appreciated.

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iyzyz said:
Hello everyone.
I wanna start this by saying that I'm very new to all this rooting and custom roms.
So I rooted my Nexus 5 and installed multirom and a couple of roms, being the tinkerer that I am, I went to the recovery settings to mess with it, and I wiped the phone clean by mistake. Everything gone, even the OS.
Now I have no idea how to fix it, any help will be appreciated.
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Boot into TWRP recovery and connect to your PC. Download a ROM from your development forums to your PC. You should see your nexus 5 internal storage listed on your PC. Drag and drop the ROM from PC to your internal storage. Flash ROM with TWRP, profit.

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Evolution_Tech said:
Boot into TWRP recovery and connect to your PC. Download a ROM from your development forums to your PC. You should see your nexus 5 internal storage listed on your PC. Drag and drop the ROM from PC to your internal storage. Flash ROM with TWRP, profit.
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When I choose Recovery Mode in the bootloader, I just get a black screen and it stays that way!

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I don't know how you managed to wipe the recovery but here is how to fix it:
Download TWRP for nexus 5
Boot into bootloader, connect to pc and:
fastboot flash recovery /path/to/recovery.img
if that doesnt work do this:
fastboot boot /path/to/recovery.img

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nagalun said:
I don't know how you managed to wipe the recovery but here is how to fix it:
Download TWRP for nexus 5
Boot into bootloader, connect to pc and:
fastboot flash recovery /path/to/recovery.img
if that doesnt work do this:
fastboot boot /path/to/recovery.img
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Sorry but how do I type this " /path/to/recovery.img" in the command prompt? I have the twrp file on the desktop.

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iyzyz said:
Sorry but how do I type this " /path/to/recovery.img" in the command prompt? I have the twrp file on the desktop.
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Make sure you have the TWRP.IMG somewhere where fastboot can find it, ie in your platform-tools folder. Open command prompt there by holding shift and right clicking in that location. Select open command window here. Then type: fastboot flash recovery (name of)recovery.img
I suggest renaming the TWRP IMG to either recovery.img or TWRP.img , remember, Windows will automatically add the extension so only rename it TWRP or recovery. Otherwise, you'll end up with a file named recovery.img.img
Then after renaming, you'd type:
fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img or if renamed to recovery:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

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Evolution_Tech said:
Make sure you have the TWRP.IMG somewhere where fastboot can find it, ie in your platform-tools folder. Open command prompt there by holding shift and right clicking in that location. Select open command window here. Then type: fastboot flash recovery (name of)recovery.img
I suggest renaming the TWRP IMG to either recovery.img or TWRP.img , remember, Windows will automatically add the extension so only rename it TWRP or recovery. Otherwise, you'll end up with a file named recovery.img.img
Then after renaming, you'd type:
fastboot flash recovery TWRP.img or if renamed to recovery:
fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
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Oh nevermind I got it from here
When I try to flash the rom I get this
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
EDIT: IT WORKED! I downloaded a Cyanogen rom and it worked! Thanks a lot everyone.