does not identify my macintosh HD

I am trying to update my 27" imac from 2017 from High Sierra to a more recent OS like Ventura. I can't get the OS to update because it thinks my Macintosh HD is a temporary storage device and IDK how to fix this situation....can't seem to get past the install page so long as this is the case. Any ideas of what to do?

iMac 27″ 5K, macOS 10.13

Posted on Jun 30, 2023 3:04 AM

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BDAqua

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Jun 30, 2023 4:12 AM in response to IDKwhatImdoin23

Can you post a pick,or in Terminal reort the resulrtsof this command...

diskutil list

Like tis...

/dev/disk5 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +1.0 TB disk5

Physical Stores disk2s2, disk1s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 11.2 GB disk5s1

2: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 673.0 GB disk5s2

3: APFS Volume Preboot 84.4 MB disk5s3

4: APFS Volume Recovery 529.0 MB disk5s4

5: APFS Volume VM 2.1 GB disk5s5

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