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Erase hard drive

When I try to erase my hard drive in disk utility the erase icon is grayed out. How do I erase?

Posted on Oct 8, 2021 6:38 PM

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Posted on Oct 8, 2021 7:51 PM

You have to restart in the Recovery Partition (hold down Command + R on startup), open Disk Utility and then format. You cannot format the drive you started Mac OS from!

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Erase hard drive

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