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I have a computer that I securely erased the SSD with Parted Magic. I booted to the Mojave installer and went to diskutil to erase (reformat) the drive to prep for install. The SSD was not showing up. So I went into the terminal and found the SSD via command “diskutil list”, it appeared at the bottom of the list as disk20, which I thought was weird because it is generally disk0. I used terminal to erase the SSD for install: “diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ Macintosh\ HD disk20” The process got stuck on erasing at 50% and did this for a whole day. I am very confused, at this point I’ve tried: · Using different bootable installer (high sierra, sierra, elcap) · SMC and PRAM resets · removing battery · using a different SSD (…so it is the computer not the drive) · And simply just trying multiple times I am at a loss, any ideas guys? Thanks in advance for the help!
Does Parted Magic format APFS? Why did you use it instead of Apples Disk Utility? Why the secure erase?
