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erase HDD of old iMac

I am having trouble erasing my old iMac. The erase button is grayed out in Disk Utility

Posted on Apr 1, 2019 4:07 PM

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Posted on Apr 1, 2019 5:54 PM

You have to boot from the Recovery Partition (Command + R on startup), open Disk Utility and erase there.


Also, have you completed ALL the steps in https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065



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erase HDD of old iMac

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