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    Trying to wipe Macbook Pro - Macintosh hd does not appear in Recovery Mode

    Hello, I have a refurbished mid-2015 Macbook Pro, it's currently running Big Sur version 11.7.10. The last six months the laptop will run hard and crash multiple times a day. It doesn't matter if I was working on it or not. I wanted to wipe the computer and start fresh. The Macintosh HD does...
  2. mediummacknowledge

    Urgent! Accidentally erased Macintosh Data but I run on an M1. Now there’s no disk to reinstall big sur and my work laptop is a vegetable

    Getting straight to the point, the main difference in the process of erasing Macs for intel and for Apple silicon is that you’re supposed to press the minus button (-) undef volume for Macintosh Data when erasing an Intel chip. I did this and now my sidebar looks like this: When I tried to...
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    Deleted Macintosh HD, created untouchable partition and now blinking stop sign. Help a gorilla out.

    So a friend was looking into selling her Macbook Air mid 2013 to someone and came to me for help in transferring pictures from it onto an external hard drive she had bought. She was having some issues doing it herself since the drive wasn't showing up when she plugged it in, easy, so I went to...