My internet drives are not showing in recovery disk utility

Question

Level 1

39 points

My internet drives are not showing in recovery disk utility

I accidentally deleted some of my files in MacOs bigSur. I kept using it for a few day with only lid down and open sessions. I don’t usually shut down my mbp.

last night some apps were not working si I thought to restart it. But it never booted.

i have tested all nvram pram and every solution to boot but none work.

luckily i have installed bootcamp windows 10.

I booted into windows and with some app (UFS explorer standard access) I successfully backedup all of my data from mac drive.

Now in recovery mode my internal disks are not visible. So i could formate them and have a fresh installation.

i have made my usb bootable with recovery on it by installing firmware in recovery mode onto my usb. I can boot on my usb drive but i can’t access to my internal disks.

i have been trying to fix this issue for around 28hrs with 3hrs break.

can somebody suggest me any solutions. I am literally tired and about to bang my head on the laptop.

macbook pro. Mid 2015

15in.

16gb/250gb ssd.

thank you.

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Sep 24, 2020 2:10 AM

Reply

Answer 1

mfarooqi Author

Level 1

39 points

Sep 24, 2020 3:16 AM in response to Sharhari

Thanks for the reply.

currently i am cloning my windows installation to my usb. I thought this could be a solution that i will reboot from usb and then formate the main internal ssd and will see .... may be this time it will be visible in disk utility.

once installation of windows to usb is done

Then i will run systems diagnostics too before my this above method

Reply

Answer 2

mfarooqi Author

Level 1

39 points

Sep 26, 2020 2:48 PM in response to HWTech

Thank you @HWTech... I had already solved this issue before your reply. This had really the same solution I found on the internet. My MacBook Pro has different M.2 NVMe ssd XPG GAMMIX S5. I tried all older OS because I had to download large files.. I tried 2 firmwares and those .. almost 5 times.. how much frustration I felt...

then I found https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/287644/do-macbooks-support-nvme-ssd-drives-via-the-use-of-a-sintech-adapter and came to know it is compatibility issue. And then I downloaded Mojave and that did detect my ssd but I formatted in APFS... which again didn't gave me error saying.. "Could not create a Pre-Boot Volume for APFS install"...

I again I again booted from my USB (Mojave) and formatted my main drive into Max OS Extended (Journaled) and GUID Partition Map and ... it worked. .

Later updated into big sur..

Reply

Answer 3

mfarooqi Author

Level 1

39 points

Sep 24, 2020 2:17 AM in response to mfarooqi

See. If I hit diskutil list. That disk is not listed even here

Reply

Answer 4

Sep 26, 2020 4:07 PM in response to mfarooqi

Thanks for the update. I'm glad you were able to sort it out. Congratulations.

Reply

Answer 5

Sep 24, 2020 1:17 PM in response to mfarooqi

If you are using a third party PCIe SSD in your Mac, then you need to boot from macOS 10.13+ in order to see the third party PCIe SSD so you can erase it. The early screenshot of Disk Utility is from a pre-macOS 10.13 OS and won't work for a third party PCIe SSD.

Reply