How to securely erase your mac hard drive before selling. Booting off that drive will also allow erasing via. In fact, recent versions of disk utility in macos wont even let you initiate a secure erase of an. Select the hard drive you want to securely erase from the list of available drives in the left column. You may use disk utility application to perform hard drive partitionrelated tasks on mac operating system, such as to format, repair, erase or create hard drive. Click on the erase tab in disk utilitys main window. The internal hard drive still not showing upmounting on mac. Erase it and then erase it again disk utility includes a secure erase option that will not only erase the hard drives catalog files, which point to where individual files are stored on the drive, but will also. Here ill show you how you can erase and format a disk using the command line. Type sudo diskutil unmountdisk force devdiskx line. The first thing is to boot your mac into recovery mode. Most users use disk utility to erase a disk or hard drive. Macintoshhd is the default disk name in macos, disk format required is mac os extended. Open disk utility select wd drive click view upper left, and click down arrow select main drive not volume, thats whats causing the problem now click.
Access terminal application input diskutil list line when the list of all disks appears you need to found the disk that you want to force unmount. Disk utility erase controls on your macbook dummies. Follow the installation prompts and allow the procedure. The mac to erase mounts as a drive, and disk utility can be used with it. Solved new internal ssd is not showing in macbook while booting. How to erase a mac that seems to lack erasure options. How to securely erase data from your mac and external drives. It will scan all system files, dlls and registry keys that have been damaged by security threats. Click on reinstall macos or reinstall macos and continue. Format is at mac os extended journaled already, but its. How to erase everything on mac imac, macbook proair. The drive is now empty, newly formatted and all the previous data is leftover, encrypted garbage.
Oct 06, 2016 force an external mac drive to mount via command line terminal commands in mac os x. Apr 16, 2017 click erase in the top area of the utility window if you dont see or cant select erase, click the volume name beneath the disk name macintosh hd, then try again. Some mac users may require the ability to erase a disk or erase a hard drive from the command line on mac os, a task which is typically performed through the disk utility application from. Click on the erase button at the top of the disk utility, this brings up our disk formatting options. Jan 23, 2017 this is because most macs ship with solid state drives these days yeah, those entrylevel imacs and mac minis with hdds are kind of a ripoff and theres no need to securely erase ssds because they store data differently from hard drives. How to fix macintosh hd greyed out in disk utility. Install osx on an external drive or borrow one with os x installed.
Open disk utility select wd drive click view upper left, and click down arrow select main drive not volume, thats whats causing the problem now click erase, enter name, select os extended journaled, and scheme is guid partition map now click erase button. May 01, 2020 click the erase button or tab, then complete these items. Click erase to confirm you wish to erase the partition. Im wondering if it forms some sort of core of mac os x lion to use during the recovery process since when doing an internet recovery it says downloading additional components. Enter a name that you want the volume to have after you erase it, such as macintosh hd. After following the steps to erase a partition, you can then remove it. Itll boot into recovery mode, and you can click disk utility to open it up. When disk utility loads select the drive usually, the outdented entry from the side list. In fact, you can see mac os x base system in disk utility under recovery mode of course but disk utility wont let you erase it. How to fix internal hard drive not showing up on mac. In recovery mode, macos runs a special sort of recovery environment. In catalina you first need to erase the macintosh hddata. Feb 03, 2020 use disk utility to erase the hard drive.
Error message when formatting a new drive wd community. How to erase everything on macbook pro hard drive befre. Remember that this method can only be used to erase the hard disk drive which does not have the mac os installed on it. The next thing you can use disk utilitys partition tool for is to erase all of the volumes on a mac or external disk drive and create new ones. Before lion, you had to boot from a cd or dvd system disk or a thirdparty utility, like disk warrior, or from an external drive with os x installed. How to securely erase external drives with disk utility on. Depending on how you started recovery mode, you may be presented with the option to start disk utility right away, as seen above. If you need to start completely fresh, then youll want to erase your startup. How to use your macs disk utility to partition, wipe, repair. Mar 01, 2011 open disk utility to begin the disk erasing process.
How to remove disk partitions on a mac with disk utility. Tutorial of factory reset macbook pro with and without. But some mac users might need to erase them from the command line on mac os. When the recovery mode utilities window shows up, pick disk utility and click continue.
How to force a hard drive to unmount for formatting in mac. Select the internal storage disk in the lefthand menu. Choose either apfs or mac os extended journaled to format as a mac volume. Aug 30, 2016 some mac users may require the ability to erase a disk or erase a hard drive from the command line on mac os, a task which is typically performed through the disk utility application from the gui.
It could be ssd, yet the internal hard drive may not show up on the mac, finder or disk utility, stoping you from accessing your data or booting your mac up. If you want the content on your mac to stay intact, skip to the next section. The security options option next to erase can control how the disk is erased. In catalina you first need to erase the macintosh hddata partition before erasing the macintosh hd. In some cases, disk utility will force you to choose the mac os extended entry instead, but the end result is the same. How to use macs disk utility to securely wipe a drive.
How to erase everything on macbook pro hard drive befre selling. Click erase in the top area of the utility window if you dont see or cant select erase, click the volume name beneath the disk name macintosh hd, then try again. This is where the method will change depending on whether or not you have updated to catalina. Note that you do not need to format a disk or volume with the msdos file system just to. How to securely erase your macs ssd the mac observer. Launch disk utility, select the drive, then select the erase option. Im wondering if it forms some sort of core of mac os x lion to use during the. Still with the external disk selected in disk utility go to the erase tab, select mac os extended journaled from the format dropdown, choose to name the disk and then. You can make use of disk utility to perform any disk volumerelated tasks. Open disk utility to begin the disk erasing process.
If the ssd is listed there, you should format it with mac os extended journaled format and try restoring from timemachine backup or a fresh copy. Open disk utility via your applications utilities folder. Solved new internal ssd is not showing in macbook while. How to format a usb external disk for mac osx using disk utility. Whether its a hard drive in an older mac or an external hard drive, if it is accessible, you can use disk utility to securely erase it. Next, close disk utility and click reinstall macos. How to use macos recovery to restore the operating system.
Select your main partition, which is the first drive on the list. How to use macos sierra disk utility to partition, erase. Erase free space on a mac hard drive with os x disk utility. How to force a hard drive to unmount for formatting in mac os. Go to disk utility erase disk select erase with journaling. Select disk utility and click on the continue button. If you need to remove the hard drive with os files, you can use method 2. How to use macos recovery to restore the operating system on. Dec 26, 2017 to get started, click the disk utility option. Still with the external disk selected in disk utility go to the erase tab, select mac os extended journaled from the format dropdown, choose to name the disk and then click erase. Fortunately, there are some means to fix the internal. In this article, you will learn about how to fix macintosh hd greyed out in disk utility. To do that, the only thing you need is a bit of precise syntax to make sure that you are erasing the proper disk. Erase everything on macbook pro with data wiper recommend.
As your mac wont boot, all the solutions below are finished in recovery mode. Even though i did it, my mac claims that it wasnt eject properly. Click erase, confirm the action if prompted, and wait until formatting is complete. Oct 07, 2019 click erase to confirm you wish to erase the partition. Note that you do not need to format a disk or volume with the msdos file system just to read a file from a pc system mac os x recognizes msdos removable media such as a usb drive formatted under windows without a problem. If you need to start completely fresh, then youll want to erase your startup disk using disk utility. Normally, if the hard disk or ssd is listed in the left sidebar of disk utility, you can leave out the hardware problems. The reason why i am asking is because i usually eject my hd by dragging it to the trash icon. To do that, the only thing you need is a bit of precise syntax to. Click on the erase tab in disk utility s main window. How to remove a hard drive partition on your mac imore. This method uses the utilities which can be run only on the mac os.
How to wipe your mac and reinstall macos from scratch. This is because most macs ship with solid state drives these days yeah, those entrylevel imacs and mac minis with hdds are kind of a ripoff and theres no need to securely erase ssds. Disk utility shows the recommended mac format by default. Select your main hard drive usually called macintosh hd click the. I mentioned this because you should go for the disk utility first if your new internal ssd is not showing in macbook while booting. After following the steps to erase a partition, you can then remove it from your hard drive. Force an external mac drive to mount via command line terminal commands in mac os x. And there you have it one read and writable disk ready for osx. Click the erase button or tab, then complete these items. How to erase your startup disk in macos recovery mode. With your partition selected, click the erase button at the top of disk utility.
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