Disk erase failed on internal drive. Can’t see the drive now
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
Nice advice @P. Phillips!
@johnhw : a bootable Installer is a very precious tool to build. I have a collection of them and they all rescued one of my Mac or a friend's one.
Personnal advice : use only 16GB USB keys of quality, because you won't put anything else on it, and you have to trust it.
@johnnnw:
I guess you ran Disk Utility from your internal disk.
If this is the case it might also be an error from the binary Disk Utility.
To eliminate this possibility, I suggest you to run Disk Utility from your recovery volume:
Taking the machine to the service center this week.
Thanks to all for your help!
As @Daniel Azuelos mentioned or Create A bootable Installer of macOs version ?? ( your chose as long as Catalina of above ) boot from it and use Disk Utilities to perform the Erase
Tend to agree regarding a Failed Internal drive. Apple Repairs have them do a Diagnostics
It's possible it failed.
If it doesn't show up in Disk Utility, it would seem that it is not working.
That is what I am thinking. Hoping to find a way to recover the drive.
Recover what?
The data? I thought you were erasing it.
The drive? Even if you could make it work for a moment, why would you trust it for anything.
I ran disk utility from the booted external drive. The OS doesn’t see the internal drive. My thought is that the drive has died.
Unfortunately your diagnostic is now correct!
I ran disk utility from the external drive. But the internal drive is not visible.
Disk erase failed
