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I am trying to erase the hard drive on my iMac that I am trading in; however, the erase button is not available. It is grayed out. How do I proceed from here?
iMac 27″, macOS 10.13
FWIW, you have to be in Recovery Mode to erase an internal drive.
About macOS Recovery on Intel-based Mac computers - Apple Support
FWIW, you have to be in Recovery Mode to erase an internal drive.
About macOS Recovery on Intel-based Mac computers - Apple Support
You must boot into the Recovery Partition and use Disk Utilities there. Please hold down the Command key and the R key on startup to get into the Recovery Partition.
The erase button is not available. It is grayed out, so I can’t erase my iMac’s hard drive.
