I have a late 2008 MacBook Pro. That this message has shown up on my computer with the details. Does anyone know what is it that might be the issue.
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Original Title: 2008 Macbook Pro
iPhone 15, iOS 18
So you have booted to Local Recovery mode and are trying to erase the internal device, right?
If you can still boot to the internal disk, prepare a bootable USB macOS installer, then boot to that and use its Disk Utility to erase the whole internal device. I prefer this because then I have a bootable disk available before nuking the internal device.
Or if your old Mac supports Internet Recovery, boot to it via Option-Command-R and use its Disk Utility to erase the whole internal device.
Create a bootable installer for macOS - Apple Support
Or if your old Mac supports Internet Recovery, boot to it via Option-Command-R and use it Disk Utility to erase the whole internal device.
Yeah, and see that’s the problem when I did that being on the phone with Apple support that message popped up.
The cold truth is this MacBook is seventeen (!) years old and well obsolete.
In fact it was classified by Apple as obsolete about ten years ago.
If that is the original hard drive inside then it may very well be failing or failed.
Don't waste any time or money on that obsolete tech. Recycle it. If you feel so inclined you can remove the internal drive and destroy it with a hammer before sending the computer to the recycler.
Try using the instructions in the following article to partition & format the physical Fujitsu Hard Drive.
https://eshop.macsales.com/tech_center/formatting/Mac_Formatting_6-10.pdf
This will destroy both of the partitions on that Fujitsu Hard Drive.
Yes that is correct to your first question. But also I need to erase everything on the laptop as well.
but is it possible? I may need a new laptop since I have a late version.
Error message on late 2008 MacBook Pro
