A drive and a partition: How to understand the difference when erasing Mac disks

Macworld
Jan 19, 2017, 6:30 am549 pts
Carmela writes in with a question after wiping a 2010 MacBook Pro and reinstalling macOS: I wanted to restore it to factory settings, but while erasing the disk I erased not only “Macintosh HD” but the “Hitachi…” What have I done? I reinstalled the OS fine. Did I damage my system? This highlights how well…

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