![]() ![]() You can use Disk Utility to erase the physical SSD, but within Disk Utility you may first need to click "View" and select "Show All Devices" before the physical SSD appears on the left pane of Disk Utility. You can erase the physical SSD by booting into Internet Recovery Mode (Command + Option + R) for the online macOS 12.x Monterey installer. In theory you should be able to boot into Recovery Mode using Command + R, but this will boot to the local recovery volume if it exists, otherwise it will try to boot into Internet Recovery Mode which in theory should boot into the macOS 11.x Big Sur installer, but could equally boot into the installer for the original OS. If you just installed a third party NVMe SSD, then did the laptop at some point in its past already have macOS 10.13+ installed? If not, then you will need to first install an Apple OEM SSD internally and install macOS 10.13+ so that the laptop's system firmware is updated to support an NVMe SSD.įYI, when using the "diskutil list" command, add on the "internal" option so that only the internal drives and volumes are shown since all these virtual macOS installer volumes get in the way. If an NVMe SSD is being used internally, then you need to boot into a macOS 10.13+ since older versions of macOS don't have the necessary NVMe driver. maybe the SSD adapter is bad or incompatible (same may be true for the SSD as well) The laptop is using a third party NVMe M.2 SSD.Your picture of Disk Utility is showing a pre-macOS 10.13 version of the Disk Utility app. ![]() The laptop is using a third party NVMe SSD internally and you are booting a pre-macOS 10.13 installer.SSD has failed (or Logic Board failure).There are three possible reasons for this: What is not normal is not seeing the physical SSD in the list. All of those multiple volumes are from the macOS installer and is completely normal. ![]()
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