I got a macbook air off ebay. After setting it up for use I shut down. A few days later when I turned on the macbook air it was showing a flashing envelope icon. I tried to create a High Sierra restore usb using macdaddy but the disk utility is not showing the main hard drive. 1. How do I create a restore usb with the APFS format? 2. Is it possible to reformat the hard drive so I run Linux thereon?
HunterBD wrote:
Read here:-
How to Fix Mac Flashing Folder With A Question Mark - Appuals.com
The user doesn't have a flashing folder icon. He has zip, zero, nothing.
I don't know why noone has answered your question about Linux!
Why didn't you?
The OP said THIS at the outset ....
"A few days later when I turned on the macbook air it was showing a flashing envelope icon."
I don't know (YET!) how to install Linux on my old iMac! If I DID know, I would have explained.
Question 1: don't need to format a USB drive to APFS in order to have a HS installer. Rely on Disk Maker X (you'll need to have an 8 Gbyte USB drive - at least - and an HS installer App from App store. It will do everything, from formatting to getting the USB dive as installer). CAREFULLY follow instructions.
Question 2: just Linux or Linux with Mac OS?
Used the option+cmd+R to get HighSierra install, but there is no hard drive showing for the installation to go on.
If Disk Utility didn't recognize it it would have said so and asked if you wanted to format it.
Seems the drive is defective.
Looks and sounds like the internal drive has failed completely. I suggest you try to return it if you can.
FWIW, by "defective" I meant failed completely.
Holy smokes, I had hoped it was a case of the drive being invisible to disk utility reading it as an unrecognised format
Read here:-
How to Fix Mac Flashing Folder With A Question Mark - Appuals.com
I don't know why noone has answered your question about Linux!
Excuse me? How does Linux enter into it?
KiltedTim wrote:
Excuse me? How does Linux enter into it?
I'm guessing Hunter saw this from the OP.
2. Is it possible to reformat the hard drive so I run Linux thereon?
'dialabrain''s answer to you is correct! 😉
HunterBD wrote:
The OP said THIS at the outset ....
Maybe you should read entire posts?
I don't know why noone has answered your question about Linux!
Maybe because this is not a Linux forum?
Revert from APFS to MacOS Journalled or some other
