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G1nnay Author

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After I try to erase the disk in disk utility it says “erase has failed” what do I do

Posted on Jun 29, 2020 12:09 PM

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HWTech

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Posted on Jun 29, 2020 2:03 PM

Make sure you are booted into Recovery Mode, Internet Recovery Mode, or from a macOS USB installer. You must boot from another source to erase a system boot drive.

Also try it again. I've found that Disk Utility is sometimes failing on the first attempt to erase a drive.

If you are booting from another source and the erase fails two times in a row, then you most likely have a bad drive.

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