SSD not showing in Disk Utility SOLVED !!!

[@AjudaAqui]

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[@anonymousperson2189]

It says can't unmount

[@none8159]

I did everything and it worked!! But when its being installed it keeps restarting by itself! I tried it multiple times but same issue, keeps restarting…. Any tips?

[@harishsihag5010]

Not commend work ...what i do ???

[@asrafansary5268]

How can fix this error "The installer information on the recovery server is damaged."

[@elmagicodj]

eBay said it was tested. Guess what. It was unmounted. This process HELPED me as explained.. Thanks and I saved this video.

[@Shaykhayy]

Love you man!! This worker for me. After watching 50+ videos. Only your steps worked and my macos is being reinstalled. Cheers🍻

[@marcokatigbak2688]

It’s 2024 and I was reformatting an old MacBook for my kids to use. This video saved my day

[@caroh2443]

I have watched so, SO many videos. Always struggling with this stuff and I can’t believe I finally found a video that actually works. THANK YOU

[@dmarshy]

YESSS!!! You are the BOSS! No other videos/posts go into this detail! I was stuck for days with no solution! How do people not run into this issue all the time?!?! THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!

[@JoseABC26]

I bought two ssds and three adapters and I still have the same problem, the mac ssd reads it but the nvme does not

[@wh1skeybud]

OMG!!!! THIS HAS BEEN PISSING ME OFF SO MUCH TRYING TO FIGURE THIS OUT AND THIS COMPLETELY FIXED THE ISSUE!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

[@AjudaAqui]

Great

[@CaliberWorks]

I was about to give up on life until I found this video. GOD BLESS YOU. This tutorial helped me recover my iMac, I was struggling to find the disk. You have a new subscriber!

[@AMOGUS69_420]

WAIT WHAT ABOUT YOUR LIFE

[@timward1726]

Struggled with this problem for 2 days. You solved it in 30 seconds. THANKS!

[@AjudaAqui]

Que bom que deu certo aí amigo

[@mingleboakye1726]

What mac os are you using?

[@najibtackie5148]

OH. MY. GOD!!! After spending the whole of yesterday and today looking for solutions to my problem, you finally helped me fix this issue without spending a dime on repairs!!! Thanks a lot bro!!! God bless youuuu!!!

[@AjudaAqui]

Que bom que deu certo aí amigo.

[@bricegrissom1910]

This worked perfect. Installed a new SSD hard drive & this solved the problem i ran into when trying to start up the macbook (macbook 2012 13”)

[@conflix2775]

Does not work for me. The diskutil list doesn't show the SSD at all. :(

[@AdeErrandeC]

Thank you for this video. You are life saver. Have been wanting to erase HDD but never succeed. The erase button in disk ultility recovery mode has always been grreyed out. Now I can finally install from a new clean drive. Thank you.

[@AjudaAqui]

Nice. Thanks

[@yavuzzirhlisi]

sometimes the APFS format can not be shown on recovery mode . this solves the problem and you can see all format options as well. Terminal works usually, thanks.

[@jennabain6371]

I was not able to figure this out for the life of me with school coming up and was getting stressed, your vid saved me emotionally

[@notmyfinalf0rm]

did you have to erase everything off of the disk ?

[@jeremycarr9179]

Was searching high and low for a solution and finally found your video! Simple, to the point, helpful...everything i needed to solve my issue! Thank you!

[@AjudaAqui]

Thanks

[@tudosobrenegocios1854]

Parabéns irmão pelo vídeo, é só o começo, espero que tenha muito sucesso mano, já virei um inscrito 😉✅

[@AjudaAqui]

Valeu mano obrigado

[@damienyvert3851]

It doesn’t appear in the terminal either (it is a new ssd)... Could you help me please ?

[@95armaanthakur]

i bymistakely deleted the internal disk and this was all i need wow just amazing thank u for the video too helpful

[@jaydub1147]

Absolutely beautiful! This has been driving me crazy for 2 days now. Thanks!

[@AjudaAqui]

Que bom que deu certo aí amigo

[@JohnDeLeon28]

I have a question: Yesterday, My Mac was fine and shut it down. Now, I turned on my Mac and it says “Your computer restarted because of a problem”, i press a key then it restarted and it goes back to that message. I pressed Cmd + R. And I clicked Disk Utility and “Macintosh HD” is not there. The only thing that is there is the 251 GB APPLE SSD SM02… and disk0s2 (which is greyed out). I don’t know what happened but I can’t use my Mac because of this problem. How to bring back the Macintosh HD?

[@toddsouthern9587]

Excellent to the point video. I am installing Monterey onto a new 1tb m.2 drive and this fixed my issue within 5 mins. Feel stupid for ordering a second drive now as this was cleary the issue.

[@avnindertatla]

Thank you for the information. I just solved the problem on my Mac with the help of this video.

[@chilledllama8830]

Hands down the most helpful and accurate video with this problem! THANK YOU bro!!!

[@sanasayyed4572]

Thank you so much. This video helped me. I watched so many videos but couldn’t solve the issue but your video helped me and I solved the issue.

[@AjudaAqui]

Great!

[@Stephensidneyart]

This worked! however I don’t know if this has changed since you made this video. Or if I messed up at an earlier stage. But the startup disk wouldn’t appear. you will have to reset the laptop afterwards, and go into the terminal and update the time, reset again. And then the disk should appear.

[@AjudaAqui]

Obrigado pela colaboração

[@Laura-mu9ni]

Really helpfull! My problem was that I saw the disk but the disk itself was not installed and through this I was finally able to reinstall the macOS!

[@j.hughes2859]

Best advice given for the "damaged" error message I kept getting when trying to re-install the OS on this Macbook Pro. Others had that change the time nonsense or/and disconnect the wifi. None of that worked. With this video and the instructions followed thoroughly, I was able to get the OS install in one shot. Thank you Ajuda for the best advice given for this situation. KUDOS!

[@nadiaahmed8987]

Omfg i have been up for 4 hours trying to reboot my MacBook. Thinking I have no disk and my laptop is actual trash. BUT NO IT WORKED THANK YOU SO MUCH.

[@nickwilliams4961]

Thank you this video was very helpful I thought my MacBook hard drive was done for thanks to you I’m re installing Mac OS right now!

[@startover305]

What a life saver! My Mac was stuck after the disk utility error and the video sure helped!

[@AjudaAqui]

Tanks

[@Michael-k6t4w]

Why I can’t do it successfully 😢

[@kc8933]

What if it does not show even on terminal?

[@Commenter1270]

Same problem. Looking for answers in the comment section.

[@2stun437]

@@Commenter1270 did you find the answer mate

[@Commenter1270]

@@2stun437 nah I think the SSD adapter is broken lol will have to purchase a new one

[@2stun437]

@@Commenter1270 I fixed it mate and got it to work. What I did was turn off the mac unplug my new ssd then plug it back in but only plug it in 85% of the way then it popped up and then you can plug it in all the way and it will still be registered

[@Commenter1270]

@@2stun437 85%? The adapter to the computer? Or the SSD to adapter?

[@jxloy9668]

It's worked for me. I've been trying to fixed this issue for a while. Thank you

[@e.esiyok]

My dear brother. I did all of these things you showed, but I still couldn't see my 256 gb disk. HDD was previously visible in Disk Utility but now is Not visible. Please help me what can i do ?

[@ihyaakbar2647]

did u get an answer i have the same problem

[@e.esiyok]

@@ihyaakbar2647 yes i fixed with bootable macosx usb. You have to install your mac from the usb disk. You can do that with usb stick. Write to KZbin: Bootable macosx monterey usb disk. Thats all.

[@ihyaakbar2647]

@@e.esiyok thank you i will try that

[@e.esiyok]

@@ihyaakbar2647 if u have any question ask me bro. 👍🏼

[@ihyaakbar2647]

@@e.esiyok whats ur @ bro let me contact you

[@joeecko8001]

Thank you I swear I was going crazy trying to get this to work

[@taylorvicker379]

Mines showing GUID_partition_scheme on internal and it’s showing me error couldn’t unmount disk. Can you help me?

[@jesusreynaldoortizjr3076]

Did you ever find a solution

[@belindaarechiga]

THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! THANK YOU!!! I have been searching for while with no luck and I came across your video. You are a genius!!!

[@AjudaAqui]

Thanks

[@AnthonyBloodworthTheIntityAG]

I dont want to erase my internal disk though as it has all my data on it. Im trying to back up a mirrored copy of it to an external but it refuses to show up in disk utility.

[@Hhfghcx]

I’m trying to do the same exact thing. Same issue. My internal hard drive is not showing up so I can’t back up my data to external hd but if I do as instructed in this video (I can’t bc I don’t want to erase my internal hd). Did you find a solution to our similar problem (but without erasing the internal hd)?

[@ciarachavez2878]

I LOVE U FOR THIS. 100% LEGIT IT WORKED SMOOTHLY FOR MY MAC 💚🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[@AjudaAqui]

Que bom que deu certo.

[@jlambert12013]

Holy Shit. Thank you so much. I can not believe I found this. I sold my Mac and the person is on the way to pick it up and I was sure it wasn’t going to startup when he got here

[@JJHuff823]

But what do you do when your SSD does not show up in Terminal diskutil either????

[@VenhaVerIsto]

got any answers?

[@JJHuff823]

@@VenhaVerIsto nope

[@2NDLTUSMC]

My iMac desktop 2011 SSD went missing. I fallowed his directions and was able to recovery it and restored from Time machine. Thanks It will take about 7 hours to recover due to the size of the SSD 1Tb.

[@cosmeticdreameater5468]

Amazing dude holy shit. I’m the only one to figure out this for over a year now, I can’t wait to use this!

[@fernandopeixoto2368]

As in your case the disk is shown as OS X Base System, but the next step didn't work out for my case. Any other hint?

[@mingleboakye1726]

I am having the same issue too

[@Ibaldazo]

Thank you for your help, I was Adelaido to go into terminal but followed your instructions and it worked.

[@AjudaAqui]

Thanks.

[@josephviola7791]

When I type diskutil list I don’t see my “internal” hard drive. I’m on an older Mac.. any ideas?

[@josterli19]

same problem. did you get an answer to this^

[@hoopsrocker4814]

Same

[@dasireddyrohitreddy3618]

were you able to solve it? suffering here

[@HorrorHiHorror]

What if the diskutil list command is not showing internal disk option? This is the case with me. Can you suggest something?

[@v1nTage777]

are you decide this problem? i have it too..(

[@awesome117unsc]

What to do if my internal SSD is not being detected on the Terminal? It's a 1TB Samsung 970 Evo SSD. I need help.

[@dincovic]

did you find any solution about that

[@sarangave]

@@dincovic did u??

[@OfficialDC33]

Did you bro 😂

[@awesome117unsc]

@@dincovic I ended up getting another model, but a 256gb instead. Works and reads fine.

[@tfmg8223]

INCREDIBLE this tutorial worked PERFECTLY! Thank you!!

[@yxejason]

This is awesome! Straight to the point and very clear! Much appreciated bro!

[@petrov8086]

For me it was differently: when I placed an SSD instead of DVD drive, the Disk Utility did not show the new disk. After rebooting the machine the MacOS (El Capitan) detected the SSD and asked what to with it. I told to initialize it, and it became visible in Disk Utility.

[@kidshobby9007]

The people call me mother of computer 😂but your the father,thanks for your help.

[@esranalyzer5199]

THIS IS AMAZING. SIMPLE & VERY CLEAR. APPLE SUPPORT COULD NOT HELP ME ON THIS SIMPLE THING. GREAT! THUMBS UP & A BIG HIGH5 AJUDA.

[@AjudaAqui]

Thanks

[@senpaii742]

In my case, the disk isn’t even showing in the terminal. What can I do?

[@lennyj4931]

what did you do?

[@senpaii742]

@@lennyj4931 I think the problem for me was, my laptop does not run on SATA controller. I think it's NVME. So, maybe the only option left is trying on a external hard drive.

[@fabriciors7125]

Meu caro, fiz este procedimento, o SDD é de 128GB, em Disk0 esta o MAC OS Base System... de 3.2GB.... não achei outro volume em torno de 100 GB, nem mesmo 1GB..... será que deu problema no disco?

[@mangalsoren7339]

Thank you man so much... but one question that will it erase all the data also??

[@sarmmadramzan8293]

Hey bro there in my case I didn't see my SSD details in disc list

[@valeriucujba7947]

Hey, did you find the answer? I have the same problem. Thanks!

[@bachigettingwhoopedbysmurl4545]

Same

[@jamescurtin790]

Use command option R at start up and it will install the latest version of macOS, this will see the new drive.

[@bharathyk8594]

Same here

[@jonintime]

@@valeriucujba7947 did you figure it out? Im having the same issue

[@mariojr.8557]

Hey bro, I tried this but it didn’t let me. It says “ The volume on disk0 couldn’t be unmounted because it is in use by process 0 (kernel)” what can I do? I need help bro I would appreciate it so much if you are able to help me!🙏🏼

[@TheKoekiemonsterxD]

I have the same problem

[@jazminetello838]

Did you find a solution. I have the same problem

[@mariojr.8557]

@@jazminetello838 I couldn’t find one myself sadly I tired everything. The last resort was taking it to a Apple store and they fixed it for me by erasing and resetting my whole MacBook.

[@karnekotasrikanth]

Thanks a ton , for making this video. I was struggling and finally after watching your video , I could do it by myself.

[@yiqiangjizhang]

I have the same issue, and it does not appear neither in terminal as well

[@justinTime077]

did you also buy a refurbished macbook? mine is. they upgraded with a third party ssd i think, and I'm FUCKED trying to erase this to sell it!!!!

[@yiqiangjizhang]

@@justinTime077 I bought a new ssd from aliexpress

[@abhijeetrkv]

Same issue here as well. In case of downgrade os

[@lixxer10135]

@@abhijeetrkv did you downgrade from big sur to something?

[@abhijeetrkv]

@@lixxer10135 yes i downgraded from big sur

[@gabriellacalix]

YOU ARE THE BEST! Thank you so much for this video! The only video that actually worked for me

[@kokoleka808]

What if I were to go into Disk Utility and partition the disk. Would that make the MacBook recognize the internal SSD?

[@kbaez]

Fantastic! Worked perfectly. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

[@shamkhan2640]

In Disk utility, i canot see SSD internal only OS X Base system is visible, I have tried through terminal using diskutil list but still SSD doesn't appear. Please help me. i m using MacBook (Retina, 12 inch, 2017)

[@hiteshpotdar6775]

Urgent Help~ This didn't work for me, showing- The volume on disk0 couldn't be unmounted because it is in use by process 0 (kernel) Error: -69888: couldn't umount disk

[@xantique]

Me too. Get exact same message..

[@underteikeryo]

Same here!

[@bakwasswala]

​@@underteikeryo is it solved

[@norbertosimioni]

Boa noite, o meu não apareceu com o comando do terminal. O que mais posso fazer?

[@4RNEL_JOHN]

This video HELPS ME BIGTIME! Thank you so much! ❤

[@anawazq]

on my macbook air 2013 since the os was completely erased the internal ssd is not showing anymore, I am using bootable OS usb to use macbook any suggestion ?, I have even tried new ssd and it does not showing either

[@isabellepew7536]

Pero no me sale APFS 😢 AYUDAAAAAAAAAAA TODO DEL DISCO SIII PERO LO OTRO NO 😓😓😓

[@deehaggard3466]

I am going to try this soon my husband has cooled down. after erasing the hard drive to install a new copy of system operation, I was unable to do so, it wouldn't show the hard drive to select to continue with the process then wouldn't connect to the server, set the date and time in terminal and made sure it was on the internet, still know hard drive, now i'm going to try this, will let you know how I get on.

[@AjudaAqui]

Olá. Ok então, espero que dê certo aí pra você.

[@gabrielaclinton6551]

brooooo i truly love you 🥺 it still works in 2024, you saved me ❤

[@mvlla8624]

For all the People who still can´t see their SSD in terminal via Diskutil list: I had the same issue. Someone here in the comment section suggested to create a bootable macOS installer and try it that way. I created a MacOS Monterey bootable USB and booted from that; now my new NVME SSD gets recognised. Somewhere I read that you need a relatively new MACOS Firmware. I think the Problem before was, that I started Recovery via Internet and that would only start MacOS Sierra Recovery.

[@mobbinpedro]

Great info… was your Mac originally with Monterey? I have a 2015 MacBook and was wondering if I need to create one with os that was originally intended for it or if I can use a monterey bootable one???

[@ziadrochdi7531]

thank you it worked, But after i try to make an update it goes back to the same problem, Do you have any idea why ?

[@mobbinpedro]

Came across this video, and it seemed helpful but I tried it and it still did not bring up my ssd… any other tips or solutions?

[@Carlosradion]

Meu Ssd novo nem Aparece no terminal, quando faço o comando diskutil e agora ?

[@AjudaAqui]

Estranho era pra aparecer. Vc fez boot com qual sistema? Qual versão do macos

[@Commenter1270]

@@AjudaAqui Big Sur.

[@veronikabonovska1619]

Thank you so much! This is the only thing that actually worked like magic!

[@musicislife665]

I got this answer on terminal. ; -69877: Couldn't open device. What to do? Thanks

[@Nayyshen]

This was very very good video It helped! 🔥

[@mikeofgaia]

HUGE THANK YOU for this video, you saved me so much time and energy with this fix!!! It is much appreciated!!

[@balajimehsana9486]

Obrigado pelo vídeo útil. Isso se aplicará ao NVME M2 blade ssd? ou apenas para SATA SSD? Eu usei traduções. Você pode responder na tradução em inglês? Obrigado.

[@sumanrimal]

my external disk option is not showing on the desktop what shall I do??

[@olgabeatriz7466]

Same here

[@marcelaarreguireyes1039]

it doesn't show the disk on the terminal's list

[@tharuns468]

Same issue I have here

[@marcelaarreguireyes1039]

Thanks so much for the video - PROBLEM SOLVED!

[@tharuns468]

@@marcelaarreguireyes1039 how did you solved?

[@pavel9347]

@@marcelaarreguireyes1039 How did you solve it, I have the same problem :(

[@greatworkoutsh8596]

@@pavel9347 i did follow the video and it worked perfectly

[@Jellowstudios]

I love you man you save my mac you have a better future or you have a nice job and thanks again

[@MrMsr3]

You SAVED me man!!!! Thank you 🙏🏻

[@tylerwilliams7173]

Hello, what if I don't see in "Terminal" any Physical Disk" only: (disk image) then below under "Type Name" 0: GUID_partition_scheme, SIZE +2.1GB, IDENTIFIER disk0; 1:Apple_HFS OS X Base System, SIZE 2.0GB, Disk0s1? Any suggestions. Thanks much!

[@nisargparikh1169]

Did you find any solution to this? I'm facing same issue.

[@lofo9100]

Have you found the solution yet?

[@jonglee9570]

Thanks for this! Worked for me!

[@AjudaAqui]

Tks

[@joshuaalexander6016]

I owe you the world! I was about to give up all hope with this damn computer! Thank you!

[@ulvenelv]

Buenas, hago ese procedimiento,. Pero luego dice Filr system formatter failed

[@szabodaniel9983]

Unfortunately it doesn't work for me. In the terminal my Max's internal doesn't show up at all. It's like doesn't exist anymore. The story: I bought this Mac from my friend, we formated everything, started a setup successfully and it had some error message. I restarted the computer as I wanted to try different combination (Shift command R) and after it just didn't work out, Mac didn't boot, started to download OS X El Captain from internet. I'm still stucked with the problem that in disk utility and at installation disk doesn't show up at all. Also I don't have my views option at all, it doesn't exist on that window what comes up, I can't change to "show all".

[@dasireddyrohitreddy3618]

were you able to solve it? suffering here

[@theoneandonlybright6145]

when going to the ‘terminal’ it doesnt show the ssd 480 gb.. it iist shows appale partition scjeme 1,3 GB. any help??

[@GamingStolpi]

I have the same problem

[@gentan_roastery]

I have same problem :-(

[@dasireddyrohitreddy3618]

were you able to solve it? suffering here

[@dasireddyrohitreddy3618]

@@GamingStolpi

[@NyakzOTSD]

THIS VIDEO WORKS!! LIFE CHANGER

[@dan54219641]

Bueno ya conseguí borrar y que aparezca el disco. Ahora al iniciar me muestra una carpeta. Entiendo que no hay sistema operativo? No se me descarga y me da error de servidor.

[@empedernidospescayaventura2092]

Gracias me sirvio para mac mini i5 del 2011. Me salvaste, aun sirve en 2023

[@mirkorigo]

IF THIS COULD HELP ANYONE Personally I couldn't see ths internal SSD after rebooting and having pressed command+R because it tried to install MacOs Sierra and it was impossible to find the internal SSD, but after I restarted and pressed option+command+R it downloaded MacOs Mounterey and my internal SSD showed up finally, it was on a MacBook Pro 13" A1708 EMC 2978 without touchbar, with a 1Tb Sabrent Nano nvme SSD and an adapter. Good Luck, hope it may fix your problem

[@dachengmao6812]

Thank you! that helps solve my problem!

[@mghandour20]

If your SSD is not showing up, try to boot your Mac holding option + command + R, this will boot up your Mac with a newer macOS version and it should see your new SSD.

[@rytznunes3965]

Cannot thank you enough. Thanks from Australia/Philippines.

[@sydnimartin3335]

you saved my entire world with this video. thank you omg

[@simonquintero9533]

It doesn’t find my SSD still any tips clues?

[@JPOchify]

Does the command erasedisk deletes all info? I have been trying to boot again but it didn’t have apfs option and I’m not sure if I lost all my data now

[@elcompainxendio]

he volue on disk0 couldn't be unmounted because it is in use by process 0 (kernel) error. Any help would be appreciate it

[@fafab3ar842]

You are my Super Hero! Thanks, Man! ❤️🙌🏼💪🏼

[@elmagicodj]

Another one solved 02-27-23. Gracias.