Over the years I've installed so much crapware on my computer that it just felt sluggish and contaminated to me, and I finally got up the nerve to do a clean install to start over again more 'minimalistically'.
I've done clean installs many times in the past, but never on MacOS Catalina. After backing up my Mac, I restarted into Repair Mode (Cmd+R on startup), then I went into Disk Utility to erase/partition/reformat the primary internal hard drive. I was puzzled when I noticed my primary HD (Macintosh HD) seemed was one partition of a dual partition config, and there was also another partition labeled "Data".
I turned to YouTube for advise. I watched this video, following the steps that he outlines about 2 minutes into the video in which he suggests selecting the primary HD partition and hitting the minus sign in the tool bar to "Delete APFS Volume Macintosh HD". So I did that, and in the following popup confirmation dialog, I honestly can't remember if I chose '"Delete the Volume Group..", or just the "Delete" option.
Whichever option I chose, I really messed up my system and I now find myself completely dead in the water. Here's what happened next:
After this it wouldn't let me Partition or Erase drive without producing an error message and preventing the action. I attempted to leave Disk Utility and just go try and reinstall the OS in hopes that it would know what to do to the drive to make it operable, but this is the message I got :
So at this point I'M COMPLETELY STUCK and I could really use some help from you guys to help me get back up and running. Any suggestions? Thanks so much!
I've done clean installs many times in the past, but never on MacOS Catalina. After backing up my Mac, I restarted into Repair Mode (Cmd+R on startup), then I went into Disk Utility to erase/partition/reformat the primary internal hard drive. I was puzzled when I noticed my primary HD (Macintosh HD) seemed was one partition of a dual partition config, and there was also another partition labeled "Data".
I turned to YouTube for advise. I watched this video, following the steps that he outlines about 2 minutes into the video in which he suggests selecting the primary HD partition and hitting the minus sign in the tool bar to "Delete APFS Volume Macintosh HD". So I did that, and in the following popup confirmation dialog, I honestly can't remember if I chose '"Delete the Volume Group..", or just the "Delete" option.
Whichever option I chose, I really messed up my system and I now find myself completely dead in the water. Here's what happened next:
After this it wouldn't let me Partition or Erase drive without producing an error message and preventing the action. I attempted to leave Disk Utility and just go try and reinstall the OS in hopes that it would know what to do to the drive to make it operable, but this is the message I got :
So at this point I'M COMPLETELY STUCK and I could really use some help from you guys to help me get back up and running. Any suggestions? Thanks so much!
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