Erasing Data before selling on MacBook Air

The instructions say to go into Disk Utility, highlight Macintosh HD, and then press Erase. Well the Erase button isn't lit up. What to do?

MacBook Air 11″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Jan 14, 2021 1:30 PM

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pru415 Author

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Jan 14, 2021 2:17 PM in response to pru415

Called Apple Support and they helped me out. Resolved.

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