In Restore, stuck on Searching for disks...

Trying to restore my system. In restore, I am on the "Select a Destination" page, to choose where I want OS X Mount. Lion installed. It says: "Searching for disks..." and apparently isn't finding one. However a disk does show up in systems utilities. What should I do?

Posted on Jun 18, 2020 6:07 PM

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Jun 18, 2020 6:18 PM in response to mahate

Hello,

It sounds like your Macintosh’s internal storage device has failed and would need to be replaced.

Repair a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support

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