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help w/ Mac HD not appearing in Recovery Mode Disk Utility?
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<blockquote data-quote="noviceatbest" data-source="post: 1872122" data-attributes="member: 406668"><p>Thanks for all your replies. Will need patience & slow talk because while I can follow directions well, I don't have conceptual/fundamental understanding of much. And actually, my tenuous grasp on much of what's being discussed on this thread makes me suspect I may just need to find someone locally who does repair work and just hope this would be a quick and cheap thing for them to do for me.</p><p></p><p>I failed in my <strong>What I'm Doing</strong> section, first bullet point, yes it's booting up from/into Internet Recovery. But from within that, I can't access the HD at all from Disk Utility, so I can't (re)format it.</p><p></p><p>I don't have the old drive.</p><p></p><p>I cropped out the menu in my second image. Attaching full image here and you can see their is no "View" option to make all devices/drives/partitions visible. When I boot up normal, there is that option within Disk Utility, but not from within Internet Recovery.</p><p></p><p><strong>I can simplify my Goal here: </strong>Reset this machine with the oldest fresh OS as is possible with my specs. No need to save any exiting data. (Yosemite would be great, but it sounds like that <em>may</em> not be an option with the SSD drive it's now using).</p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Sidenote: these fireworks really get in the way when you're trying to write/read posts.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="noviceatbest, post: 1872122, member: 406668"] Thanks for all your replies. Will need patience & slow talk because while I can follow directions well, I don't have conceptual/fundamental understanding of much. And actually, my tenuous grasp on much of what's being discussed on this thread makes me suspect I may just need to find someone locally who does repair work and just hope this would be a quick and cheap thing for them to do for me. I failed in my [B]What I'm Doing[/B] section, first bullet point, yes it's booting up from/into Internet Recovery. But from within that, I can't access the HD at all from Disk Utility, so I can't (re)format it. I don't have the old drive. I cropped out the menu in my second image. Attaching full image here and you can see their is no "View" option to make all devices/drives/partitions visible. When I boot up normal, there is that option within Disk Utility, but not from within Internet Recovery. [B]I can simplify my Goal here: [/B]Reset this machine with the oldest fresh OS as is possible with my specs. No need to save any exiting data. (Yosemite would be great, but it sounds like that [I]may[/I] not be an option with the SSD drive it's now using). [SIZE=3]Sidenote: these fireworks really get in the way when you're trying to write/read posts.[/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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