Hi everyone, I have been trying to reset my older iMac to factory settings but I got an error message that says: Could not create a preboot volume for
APFS install. So I watched a YouTube video to see how I can fix it but one of the steps is to go to internet recovery but when I press: cmd+alt+R it shows me this:🚫
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Have you erased the whole physical SSD? Within Disk Utility you may need to click "View" and select "Show All Devices" before the physical SSD appears on the left pane of Disk Utility. Erase the physical drive as GUID partition and MacOS Extended (Journaled).
If you still get the error, then most likely the SSD is bad. If the volume name in your first picture is the actual model of your SSD, then there is a very good chance the SSD is bad. The Crucial BX500 series SSD is junk. It slows down to the speed of a hard drive very quickly and also overheats...all of which causes the SSD to become very slow. Plus this SSD has a very high rate of failure. I would replace it with the Crucial MX500 series SSD which is good. Unfortunately many SSDs these days (even from respected name brands) are just low level budget economy models which have a lot of issues...it is actually hard to find & identify a good SSD these days.
FYI, in the future please rotate your pictures to the proper orientation before posting them online since it is difficult & annoying to view pictures upside down or sideways and will cause many contributors to ignore them. You can easily rotate pictures on an iPhone/iPad using the instructions in the following article.....I would imagine Android devices would have a similar ability:
https://www.iphonelife.com/blog/5/tip-day-how-rotate-photo
Have you erased the whole physical SSD? Within Disk Utility you may need to click "View" and select "Show All Devices" before the physical SSD appears on the left pane of Disk Utility. Erase the physical drive as GUID partition and MacOS Extended (Journaled).
If you still get the error, then most likely the SSD is bad. If the volume name in your first picture is the actual model of your SSD, then there is a very good chance the SSD is bad. The Crucial BX500 series SSD is junk. It slows down to the speed of a hard drive very quickly and also overheats...all of which causes the SSD to become very slow. Plus this SSD has a very high rate of failure. I would replace it with the Crucial MX500 series SSD which is good. Unfortunately many SSDs these days (even from respected name brands) are just low level budget economy models which have a lot of issues...it is actually hard to find & identify a good SSD these days.
FYI, in the future please rotate your pictures to the proper orientation before posting them online since it is difficult & annoying to view pictures upside down or sideways and will cause many contributors to ignore them. You can easily rotate pictures on an iPhone/iPad using the instructions in the following article.....I would imagine Android devices would have a similar ability:
https://www.iphonelife.com/blog/5/tip-day-how-rotate-photo
Could not create a preboot volume for APFS install
