![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes ATA Secure Erase command isn't enough. This process resets all the available blocks, and the SSD is marked as 'clean'. ATA Secure Erase is a command which resets all the available SSD blocks to a 'clean memory state'. Whichever option I chose, I really messed up my system and I now find myself completely dead in the water. There are 2 methods to securely wipe your SSD: 1. So I did that, and in the following popup confirmation dialog, I honestly can't remember if I chose '"Delete the Volume Group.", or just the "Delete" option. I watched this video, following the steps that he outlines about 2 minutes into the video in which he suggests selecting the primary HD partition and hitting the minus sign in the tool bar to "Delete APFS Volume Macintosh HD". I was puzzled when I noticed my primary HD (Macintosh HD) seemed was one partition of a dual partition config, and there was also another partition labeled "Data". After backing up my Mac, I restarted into Repair Mode (Cmd+R on startup), then I went into Disk Utility to erase/partition/reformat the primary internal hard drive. I've done clean installs many times in the past, but never on MacOS Catalina. Over the years I've installed so much crapware on my computer that it just felt sluggish and contaminated to me, and I finally got up the nerve to do a clean install to start over again more 'minimalistically'. ![]()
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