Mac mini won't turn on after erasing data with blinking orange light

Hi. I have a Mac mini at my home. While resting the mac. I choose the erase all data and contents option and then it won't turned on. Now it's blinking orange light



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Original Title: resetting Mac Mini

Posted on Jul 11, 2025 04:50 PM

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Jul 13, 2025 11:08 AM in response to AnshAKL

To tack on to den.thed's response re not doing it yourself I took my Mini M4 into the Apple Genius Bar to have them do the job due to my failing eyesight.


It took them about 45 minutes to wipe the drive clean and install the latest system -Sequoia. I took the Mini home, plugged in my Time Machine drive and completed the installation with Migration Assistant migrating my user data, system settings, apps and documents from the TM backup.


Note: if you take it into a Genius Bar be sure to know your user account user name and password and your iCloud user name and password. You'll need both.


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