You’re still started from the internal drive, even from the recovery partition (it’s a partition on the internal drive).
Try internet recovery (alt+cmd+R on startup) Regards Sam MacAmbulance Ltd. Providing Affordable Mac/PC Support and Web Development Sam Mullen +44 (0)7747778022 <tel://+447747778022> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.macambulance.co.uk <http://www.macambulance.co.uk/> MacAmbulance Ltd. is a registered company in England & Wales, registration number 8466597 This email is intended solely for the addressed recipients and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received this email in error please notify the sender and delete the email immediately. > On 27 Feb 2019, at 17:24, 'Philip Tomlinson' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected]> wrote: > > I’m starting from recovery disk. > > Sent from my iPad > > On 27 Feb 2019, at 17:23, 'Jason Davies' via Sussex Mac User Group > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> Hang on, are you trying to erase the drive you started up from? It won' >> t let you do that;) >> >> Or are you starting from the Recovery Disk set up? >> >> cheers >> J >> >> On 27 Feb 2019, at 17:17, 'Phil Tomlinson' via Sussex Mac User Group wrote: >> >> Dear SMUGs >> (Especially Sam) >> I’m trying to wipe my old iMac. It has an SSD in it replacing the original >> hard drive. I get to the Disk Utility, choose SanDisk SDSSDH, give it a >> name, click “erase” then get the message “erase process has failed” >> >> Can anyone advise? >> Thanks, Phil >> >> Sent from my iPad >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug >> <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug >> <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout >> <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug > <https://groups.google.com/group/smug>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
