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Unable to delete/erase partitions on mac using disk utility.
Basically, I want to clean anything this is on MAC and want to reinstall the new MAC OS on My Macbook pro-2017.
I tried to install the new MAC OS but it give me an error too. Tried too many time.
I am very worried about the Mac. Please help!.
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.5
alikhan323 wrote:
Unable to delete/erase partitions on mac using disk utility.
Basically, I want to clean anything this is on MAC and want to reinstall the new MAC OS on My Macbook pro-2017.
I tried to install the new MAC OS but it give me an error too. Tried too many time.
You need to erase/reformat/initialize the "parent" Drive...
How to erase your Intel-based Mac - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496
How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
alikhan323 wrote:
Unable to delete/erase partitions on mac using disk utility.
Basically, I want to clean anything this is on MAC and want to reinstall the new MAC OS on My Macbook pro-2017.
I tried to install the new MAC OS but it give me an error too. Tried too many time.
You need to erase/reformat/initialize the "parent" Drive...
How to erase your Intel-based Mac - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496
How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904
If @leroydouglas' instructions do not work, then you may need to select the "MacBook" volume and click the "-" which will then prompt you to delete the "Volume Group". Delete the "Volume Group". Afterwards you should be able to erase the physical SSD as described by @leroydouglas. For some reason Apple keeps making this more and more difficult without providing proper details & instructions with their official documentation.
Thanks a lot, Apple community. I resolved the issue by deleting the partition. I don't know how I deleted it. as I tried the terminal ways as well as uitil disk UI. And the issue is now resolved.
thanks a lot for your support. really appreciated.
Those steps would work on that entry (APPLEAPFSMedia), but it's not actually the parent drive. That's a mislabelled entry for the APFS container (which is a partition on the parent drive).
The parent drive would be the APPLE SSD.
Unable to delete partitions on mac using diskUtility
