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jwlayug

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Mar 23, 2017
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hello, i’m about to reformat my mac and i did something stupid. I don’t know really what i did but when i reformat my hdd, it decrease to 1gb. Btw i’m using disk utility in internet recovery. Pls someone help me. Thanks

Screenshot of my hdd

https://imgur.com/a/1eR3W89
 
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Are you saying the capacity is showing up as 1GB and not used?

You may have reparitioned the drive and resized the drive
 
Are you saying the capacity is showing up as 1GB and not used?

You may have reparitioned the drive and resized the drive
When i go to disk utility, the disk is just system reserved, you can see it in my picture. Thanks
[doublepost=1527163131][/doublepost]oops, i aready know why it only show system reserved. I did not click the main drive. Should i delete my post? Coz its just a little mistake.
 
When i go to disk utility, the disk is just system reserved, you can see it in my picture. Thanks
I suspect that's the recovery partition

Take a snapshot of the entire Disk Utility window which may provide what other volumes you see on the left pane.
 
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I suspect that's the recovery partition

Take a snapshot of the entire Disk Utility window which may provide what other volumes you see on the left pane.
I’m already installing high sierra, thanks.
 
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