Hi!
I have a MacBook Pro 2015 with an encrypted drive. I tried to reset it and then erase my hard drive but it hides. We can’t find it when we get to reinstall the upgraded new system. Any suggestions are welcome.
Hilda
MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.7
I'm assuming you enabled Filevault on the internal macOS boot drive? If so, then you will need to boot from a macOS installer (online in Recovery Mode or from USB) so that you can erase the whole physical SSD. Within Disk Utility you may need to click "View" and select "Show All Devices" before the physical drive appears on the left pane of Disk Utility (macOS 10.13+). Select the physical SSD and erase it as GUID partition and APFS (top option) if installing macOS 10.13+, otherwise GUID partition and MacOS Extended (Journaled) if installing macOS 10.11 - 10.13.
If this laptop is using a third party NVMe SSD, then you must be booted to a macOS 10.13+ installer since older versions of macOS are unable to communicate with a third party internal NVMe SSD.
Erasing the physical SSD will destroy the Filevaulted (aka encrypted) volume even if you don't know the password.
I'm assuming you enabled Filevault on the internal macOS boot drive? If so, then you will need to boot from a macOS installer (online in Recovery Mode or from USB) so that you can erase the whole physical SSD. Within Disk Utility you may need to click "View" and select "Show All Devices" before the physical drive appears on the left pane of Disk Utility (macOS 10.13+). Select the physical SSD and erase it as GUID partition and APFS (top option) if installing macOS 10.13+, otherwise GUID partition and MacOS Extended (Journaled) if installing macOS 10.11 - 10.13.
If this laptop is using a third party NVMe SSD, then you must be booted to a macOS 10.13+ installer since older versions of macOS are unable to communicate with a third party internal NVMe SSD.
Erasing the physical SSD will destroy the Filevaulted (aka encrypted) volume even if you don't know the password.
MacBook Pro 2015 with encrypted drive issues
