![]() ![]() I worked all day on it and finally manually deleted all the partitions using Mac Terminal command lines, which I knew nothing about. Every app and utility had it greyed out! I could not reformat it, and the recovery software that might have repaired the drive was breathtakingly expensive. Utilities could see it, but it was like dead to the world. The catch was that as usual the boot wouldn't work, but this time, my new HDD Drive was comatose! Nothing could access it. Why not, what the heck? Go for it! It then proceeded to overwrite and reformat my Apple Time machine ext HDD drive. Once installed It asked me if I wanted to make my Adata 1 TB HDD bootable. As usual, I d/l it then jumped through all the Apple security hoops, nannies, reboots etc. That was until I almost met my Waterloo!! It has the cheery name of Super Duper Backup for macOS. They all failed at creating a boot USB on the M2. I tried so many free options and even crippled versions, but none worked. I wanted 100% free, why not, it’s just for home use on one machine, plus on PCs this is not a biggie. So I set out on a quest to find a Macrium-like backup for MacOS. ![]() It's fast, elegant, modern and totally free. It is, however, rather long in the tooth, "The 90s just called, they want their backup returned!" LOL, I have been spoiled for life by Macrium Reflect Backup. It does the job and is convenient because it's hard-wired into the bios, so you don't need to use a boot device. Of course, I first learned how to use Time Machine. Backing up my new M2 has been, to say the least, a learning experience.
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