I went to wipe all the files on my Mac Mini 2012. I wiped both my SSD and my HDD. And I go to reinstall Mac OS on my SSD and it won’t show up. My HDD will show up but my SSD won’t. Disk Utility won’t even detect that the SSD is connected. I used the command “diskutil list” on Terminal, and my SSD is being detected on there. But the SSD is not being detected on Disk Utility. How can I fix this weird issue?
Mac mini, macOS 10.15
Bubblaboo27 Said:
“Disk Utility Not Detecting SSD: I went to wipe all the files on my Mac Mini 2012. I wiped both my SSD and my HDD. And I go to reinstall Mac OS on my SSD and it won’t show up.[...]”
Mount the Disk:
Go To: Applications > Utilities > Disk Utilities.
If it is not seen, then power off your Mac. Boot your Mac, holding [Command + R]. Select Disk Utilities, and see if you can mount it that way.
Bubblaboo27 Said:
“Disk Utility Not Detecting SSD: I went to wipe all the files on my Mac Mini 2012. I wiped both my SSD and my HDD. And I go to reinstall Mac OS on my SSD and it won’t show up.[...]”
Mount the Disk:
Go To: Applications > Utilities > Disk Utilities.
If it is not seen, then power off your Mac. Boot your Mac, holding [Command + R]. Select Disk Utilities, and see if you can mount it that way.
Either you hacked my iMac and now you are lowering me to comment on how similar my issue is... 2011 later 27in I literally just bought a brand new interface from ik and a pair of presonus monitors and I have not used them yet and it’s a week later. Do your self a favor and grab a external hard drive or replace the internal but make sure you have at least 18.2gigs of available space or you will find out like me after hours of totally convenienced I could use terminal to repair and Unmount it then force mount and literally not be able to play with my big boy toys...the kid don’t like when people take his lunch money
Open Disk Utility, click View in the menubar, select Show All Devices.
You should now see your SSD Disk in the list above the Volumes Macintosh HD and Macintosh HD Data.
Select the SSD and click Erase, give the Disk a name,
Format: APFS,
Scheme: GUID Partition Map,
click Erase.
Now your mac should be able to restore to mac OS Catalina.
I managed to fix the issue! I somehow created a fusion drive with my HDD and SSD. (Making them both combine into one drive.) I had to delete the fusion drive with Terminal commands.
Restart your Mac or contact Apple support here is the link https://support.apple.com/en-au see if they can help you out
Disk Utility Not Detecting SSD
