
If you want your Mac to start up again from the volume you just you erased, select Reinstall macOS in the utilities window, then click Continue and follow the onscreen instructions.When done, quit Disk Utility to return to the utilities window.Optional: If you previously used Disk Utility to add internal volumes other than Macintosh HD, you can erase them individually using the same process.the new owner complained of a problem signing in or setting up. Once installation was complete I walked away from the machine.

If this button isn't shown, click Erase instead. Erase Process has failed - Couldn’t open disk (internal disk) I erased the internal drive and reinstalled Mac OS so the computer could go to a new owner. Format: APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled), as recommended by Disk Utility.Click the Erase button in the toolbar, then enter the requested details:.Formatting the hard drive or partition scheme will recreate a new HFS file structure on the hard drive, which will be free from cryptic errors. Select Macintosh HD in the sidebar of Disk Utility. Use Stellar Partition Manager when macOS can not format, erase and repair the Mac hard drive or a volume due to the couldn’t unmount disk error.From the utilities window, select Disk Utility and click Continue.

