Hard drive not showing in Recovery Mode despite reformat in HFS+
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Same issue as related in this thread but I already did the following:
- Re-created a new GPT (GUID) partition table (using GParted, Ubuntu)
- Created an HFS+ partition specifically for my MacOS
- Re-created an EFI system partition of +500Mb
And yet, when using the Internet Recovery Mode, two things happen:
1. The wrong MacOS is being downloaded (Mac OS X Yosemite, instead of Monterrey)
2. The HFS+ partition created does not show.
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**What did I miss?**
A possible solution would be to reformat the hard drive using Diskutil (Terminal, Recovery Mode) but no idea how to target the correct hard drive.
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This what my partition table looks like from GParted:
And this is what my Disk Utility shows on Recovery Mode:
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Things to take into consideration:
- I used to have an APFS hard drive before. But that must have been replaced by the HFS+ partition.
- I did not use FileVault or encrypted the disk (have had a lot of problems in using that).


Asked by James69
(77 rep)
Feb 28, 2022, 03:09 PM
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