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I have an iMac of 2012? Vintage. I've wiped the drive, by restart and holding down the Command/R keys, then chose to erase the drive. I tried restarting ... same process ... then choose reinstall OS. It goes through the process then finally stops and says not able to do ... what am I doing wrong?
The correct process to wipe the internal drive is pretty straight forward:
The correct process to wipe the internal drive is pretty straight forward:
Should I have been in the recovery partition? Which I assume is the Command/R keys during restart. Was no hard drive issue before I erased the drive. Could it be that it is trying to do El Capitan? I know I had it had started way back ... maybe Maverick until finally at El Capitan as the latest. Honestly, it went for 45 minutes of software loading before it pooped out.
It may not be you, from the way you are describing (I am assuming you are doing this in the Recovery Partition) it sounds correct. What I would suspect is a failed hard drive.
Much thanks ... checking if I did as APFS ... I didn't OS Extended Journaled
Your welcome.
Wipe and iMac and reinstall MacOs
