Erasing hard drive

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Erasing hard drive

I need to erase the hard drive on my iMac to trade it in ERASE is grayed out and can't select it. I was able to erase the same volume that said DATA. Thanks for any suggestions.

Posted on Mar 27, 2021 3:25 PM

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rkaufmann87

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Mar 27, 2021 3:28 PM in response to Ljanvrin

Boot into the Recovery Partition. Hold down Command + R on start up then open Disk Utility and format.

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Mar 27, 2021 3:53 PM in response to rkaufmann87

Oh, I clicked continue on the language page and that brought me to the Disk Utilities window. I am able to erase the HD now. Thanks!

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Ljanvrin Author

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Mar 27, 2021 3:52 PM in response to rkaufmann87

Hi Thanks, so when I do that I get the screen that ask for Language. The Apple directions say if it was erased correctly the first screen would be the country. Do you think I'm good?

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rkaufmann87

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Mar 27, 2021 4:04 PM in response to Ljanvrin

Yup, that sounds fine.

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