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wendelyn274 Author

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earseing flash drives failed

Erasing “flash drive” (disk4s1) and creating “flash drive” Preparing to erase APFS Volume content Checking mount state Erasing APFS Volume disk4s1 by deleting and re-adding Deleting APFS Volume from its APFS Container Unmounting disk4s1 Erasing any xART session referenced by 127F3693-5302-4729-96F9-0DE2E221848E Deleting Volume Removing any Preboot and Recovery Directories Preparing to add APFS Volume to APFS Container disk4 Creating APFS Volume An internal error has occurred. : (-69624) Operation failed… how do i fix this

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 13.1

Posted on Jan 18, 2023 9:48 AM

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leroydouglas

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Posted on Jan 18, 2023 4:33 PM

wendelyn274 wrote:

Erasing “flash drive” (disk4s1) and creating “flash drive” Preparing to erase APFS Volume content Checking mount state Erasing APFS Volume disk4s1 by deleting and re-adding Deleting APFS Volume from its APFS Container Unmounting disk4s1 Erasing any xART session referenced by 127F3693-5302-4729-96F9-0DE2E221848E Deleting Volume Removing any Preboot and Recovery Directories Preparing to add APFS Volume to APFS Container disk4 Creating APFS Volume An internal error has occurred. : (-69624) Operation failed… how do i fix this

Is this internal or an external "flash drive"...(?)

The numbering scheme is relative not absolute— so I have no idea what "disk4s1" is for you.

however from Terminal.app you can see both for the big picture, copy and paste:

diskutil list

Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac

Erase and reformat a storage device in Disk Utility on Mac - Apple Support

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