I rebooted into Recovery mode and entered disk utility but I see no internal drive

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I rebooted into Recovery mode and entered disk utility but I see no internal drive

WARNING: The following discussion contains violent images of poor MacBookAir5,2 and cursed stuffs.

I recently decided to deep wash my Mac and fresh install Catalina. Almost everything went smoothly and, I got an error. (Lost the logs) It says macOS Installation failed, try retrying. So I retried and the same issue kept happening. I rebooted into Recovery mode and entered disk utility and I see no internal drive. So I wasn’t able to re-fresh install. I tried booting while holding option and I saw a cursed image. (See attachments). Tried to install a ChromeOS patch on it (rammus) and thankfully everything went smoothly until I went to boot ChromeOS installation and nothing in the option menu. I’m stuck in a repeated hellhole. Also the disk isn’t bricked. I’m sure about that.

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MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.16

Posted on Aug 5, 2020 7:22 AM

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Answer 1

Kurt Lang

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Aug 5, 2020 7:31 AM in response to iBreakMyMacsAlot

As an 8 year old computer, it's likely the hard drive did indeed die. Not sure why you would try running a ChromeOS (Linux) patch on a Mac.

Restart the Mac again and immediately hold down Command+Option+R to boot into Internet Recovery Mode (which it looks like you already started, or the Mac just threw you there). The command boots the Mac to its firmware. When you get to the work screen, launch Disk Utility. Does the internal drive show up at all?

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Kurt Lang

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Aug 5, 2020 9:25 AM in response to iBreakMyMacsAlot

ChromeOS is such a light OS it runs great on like very very old Macs.

Yup, you can install and use all kinds of Linux variants on a Mac. I just didn't see how a Linux patch file could possibly fix an issue with macOS, which is Unix. While the command line of Linux and Unix look alike, that's pretty much all they share in common.

That you can't see the internal drive at all while booted to the external install of Catalina is a good indication the internal drive has died.

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Answer 3

Aug 5, 2020 9:16 AM in response to Kurt Lang

ChromeOS is such a light OS it runs great on like very very old Macs. Also a semi great alternative to linux. And no, but I’ve experienced this parade of sadness before but booting from an external Catalina non recovery installation fixed it. Now, that’s not the case.

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