OK. Duh, I do feel stupid. This time nothing was greyed out and I agreed to all of the agreements. It didn't say anything like starting to reformat and it's just sitting there at least in terms of feedback. I assume I've done the deed since I didn't get any errors and there's no longer any VO? I guess I expected to get a start button or something after I agreed to everything.
On 5/7/14, Tim Kilburn <kilbu...@me.com> wrote: > Hi, > > As Chris mentioned, you must do this from the Recovery Partition. The > reason everything is dimmed out is that you are currently running the MacOS > from that HD, so you are not allowed to erase the "blessed" running system. > So, restart your computer and as you hear the Startup Chime, hold down the > cmd and "r" keys simultaneously for about 5 seconds then release. Wait for > a minute or so then press cmd-f5 and see if VO activates. If it does, then > you can erase the HD and install the OS to base system. If VO doesn't > start, wait another minute or so and try again. It shouldn't take longer > than that to bring up the utilities. > > Later... > > Tim Kilburn > Fort McMurray, AB Canada > > On May 7, 2014, at 11:50 AM, Deb Lewis <deblewi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi: >> I'm returning my MacBook Air to myoffice and need to reformat it >> first. I went into Disk Utility and selected Erase but everything is >> greyed out even though I've selected the drive etc. I'm obviously >> missing some steps, LOL. I know this should be doable with VO because >> I think I've seen it happen before, but as I said, I'm obviously not >> quite getting it right since no options are available. >> Thanks in advance for any help. >> >> Deb >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
