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Erase Fail High Sierra

Mid 2011 iMac will not restart to disk Utility upon holding down various combinations of keys (command r, etc). Merely brings up the log in screen. Upon logging in and bringing up disk Utility Macintosh hard drive and hdd (original) are grayed out. First aid shows no problems also tried partioning, which failed.

iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Aug 18, 2020 9:52 PM

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Aug 19, 2020 7:55 AM in response to cherokee6

You can only Erase a drive from Restore Mode...

CMD+r keys on startup.

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cherokee6 Author

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Aug 19, 2020 4:03 PM in response to BDAqua

yea, that doesn't work. just brings up the log in page after it does it reboot.

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cherokee6 Author

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Aug 19, 2020 4:21 PM in response to BDAqua

Rookie mistake. I was using an aftermarket keyboard once I put the Apple keyboard back on it worked

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Aug 19, 2020 6:39 PM in response to cherokee6

Ah good work, great news. :)

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