

I need to fix the computer asap as I need it for work. It's impossible that there s a hardware problem, but I can't find a way to fix this. I can onky see "OS X Base System" at 2GB. I can't see the disk in terminal using "diskutil list" either. Disk utility only shows the DVD drive itself. I cant even see it to initialize and format it. However, when I start to install mac OS X from DVD, I dont see my hard drive in 'select a destination' or in disk utility. Now, however, I can no longer see the drive in disk utility, and there is no place where I can install the OS. The installation of new drive went relatively fine. The only thing to do was to restart the internet recovery. Change the format to Mac OS Extended (Journaled). I recently bought a new 320 gig hard drive for my white MacBook 13' - as the original 80 gig hard drive is proving rather small. Choose a new name for your Mac’s hard drive. I can't find the hard drive in disk utility, or in the system profiler. Yes, I am using the original installation disc. But now, when I fire up with the Install Disc for OS X tiger, I get a message that 'this software cannot be installed on this computer'. Click the Erase button at the top of the window. So, I've taken out the old hard drive and put the new one in. If you don’t see it, go to View > Show All Devices. Select your new hard drive from the sidebar. I started the download of Big Sur, bur after a while it gave me an error, telling me that it failed to download. How do I use Disk Utility to reformat my hard drive Open Disk Utility. I erased it to format it into GUID and Mac OS Extented. I mounted the harddrive successfully in the computer (following the ifixit guide on youtube) and started it via Internet Recovery.Īt this time, in disk utility, I could see the hard drive at 480 gb. I have just bought a new SSD for my Macbook Air 2015.
