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    Deleted Macintosh HD, created untouchable partition and now blinking stop sign. Help a gorilla out.

    So a friend was looking into selling her Macbook Air mid 2013 to someone and came to me for help in transferring pictures from it onto an external hard drive she had bought. She was having some issues doing it herself since the drive wasn't showing up when she plugged it in, easy, so I went to...
    • bombem
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    • disk utility erase hdd apfs erased hard drive help macbook air 13" stop sign
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    • Forum: macOS
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    Suspiciously fast secure disk erase with APFS

    Hi all I'm going through a bunch of old (spinning) disks and wiping them. I'm reformatting them to APFS; I first do a simple (non-secure) erase, then a 3-pass secure erase. The insecure erase is basically instant, but so is the secure erase which is supposed to be writing 3 passes of data to...
    • Sirolway
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    • erase hdd apfs
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    • Forum: macOS
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