Erasing Hard Drive on OSX, need help please :)

Space Monkey · 25 Jan 2015 at 22:11

Hi guys,

As per the title, I've gone into the recovery menu on boot up (cmd + R) and then selected erase, but on the left hand column where you need to choose a hard drive to erase, I've got 4 options and all are clickable, but I've only got a single 512GB SSD, which one do I need to click to erase?

Cheers

Space Monkey · 27 Jan 2015 at 18:59

Hi mate,

Thanks for the reply, I think I've done it now but not sure 100% as its my first Mac :eek:

The top option seemed to be the entire drive, then it had a sub folder which was named Macintosh HD, I chose this as it was the same name given in the 'About this Mac' so I assumed this would be correct? The other 2 below were smaller 1-2GB sections, so not sure if they were the hidden restore files?

I erased the HD and then reloaded the OS, and I've now updated to Yosemite, seems all ok, so hopefully I've done it correctly?

Not sure what the difference with the top 2 options are?

Space Monkey · 28 Jan 2015 at 14:51

That program is for PCs though, does the Mac have anything similar?

Space Monkey · 28 Jan 2015 at 15:02

Ah cool, thanks

Space Monkey · 28 Jan 2015 at 15:24

Excellent, thanks for the info, very useful for future reference