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I am trying to erase my old Macbook Air which is on OS X ElCapitan software. For some reason when I click on Utility Disk Macintosh HD it doesn't allow me to hit erase.

trying to erase my old Macbook Air which is on OS X ElCapitan software. For some reason I am unable to click the erase button when I pull up Macintosh HD.


Posted on Dec 9, 2020 11:24 AM

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Posted on Dec 9, 2020 12:08 PM

You might be trying to erase the drive you booted from - and that's not possible; it's like trying to move a step ladder while you're on the top step.


If you boot from Internet Recovery (Command-Opt-R on startup) it might work as you'll be booting from a RAM disk instead.

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I am trying to erase my old Macbook Air which is on OS X ElCapitan software. For some reason when I click on Utility Disk Macintosh HD it doesn't allow me to hit erase.

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