Re: i need help with formatting my mac

2018-10-01 Thread wayne coles
this helps. -Original Message- From: 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries Sent: Sunday, 30 September 2018 10:01 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: i need help with formatting my mac Hi, I may be wrong but in Disc Utility, in order to reformat a drive it’s the erase tab you

Re: i need help with formatting my mac

2018-10-01 Thread 'Tim Kilburn' via MacVisionaries
w up > use disk utility to wipe your machines HD > Oh and of course you will have to start VO up as before. > > Hope this helps. > -Original Message- > From: 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries > Sent: Sunday, 30 September 2018 10:01 PM > To: macvi

Re: i need help with formatting my mac

2018-10-01 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
' via MacVisionaries > Sent: Sunday, 30 September 2018 10:01 PM > To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: i need help with formatting my mac > > Hi, > > I may be wrong but in Disc Utility, in order to reformat a drive it’s the > erase tab you need as there is no d

RE: i need help with formatting my mac

2018-09-30 Thread Simon Fogarty
ndrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries Sent: Sunday, 30 September 2018 10:01 PM To: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: i need help with formatting my mac Hi, I may be wrong but in Disc Utility, in order to reformat a drive it’s the erase tab you need as there is no dedicated format tab avai

RE: i need help with formatting my mac

2018-09-30 Thread M. Taylor
Okay, good luck. Mark -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of wayne coles Sent: Sunday, September 30, 2018 1:31 PM To: 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries Subject: Re: i need help with formatting my mac hi th

Re: i need help with formatting my mac

2018-09-30 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
Yes, I assumed that that was what you were doing. You can’t format the drive you have already booted from so you have to reboot holding down command+r Andrew > On Sep 30, 2018, at 9:30 PM, wayne coles wrote: > > hi thanks but that is the problem that tab is dim so i cant do it so am i > right

Re: i need help with formatting my mac

2018-09-30 Thread wayne coles
hi thanks but that is the problem that tab is dim so i cant do it so am i right in thinking i have to get to disc utility after doing command r and not in system prefs On 9/30/2018 5:01 AM, 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries wrote: Hi, I may be wrong but in Disc Utility, in order to reform

Re: i need help with formatting my mac

2018-09-30 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
Hi, I may be wrong but in Disc Utility, in order to reformat a drive it’s the erase tab you need as there is no dedicated format tab available. So you press the erase tab and you will have to erase your chosen disc again and only then will you be given a popup button where you choose the schem

i need help with formatting my mac

2018-09-29 Thread wayne coles
hello list i need help to format my os disc i have made a mistake and put it in os base system instead of mac os extended journal so i have tried to go into disc utility from using command r but cant find no format tab so could someone please give me step by step instructions on how to do it pl