Won't let me erase hard drive to reformat to APFS

I'm trying to install Catalina. My hard drive (Macbook Pro 2017) did not reformat when I installed Mojave. I've backed up in two locations and ready to reformat to APFS. But when I go into Disk Utility it won't let me erase the drive. Is there a step I'm missing?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.14

Posted on Aug 3, 2020 9:08 AM

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Posted on Aug 3, 2020 9:12 AM

You have to be in Recovery Mode to erase an internal drive. Installing Catalina should format the drive as APFS.

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