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Mac Erase Process has Failed - What to do?

Anyone know what to do about this:

mac erase process has failed the volume "Macintosh HD" on disk 2s5 couldn't be unmounted because it is in use by porrcess 652 (kextcache).


I tried to restart and I get a spinning beachball. I followed the directions exactly.


Thanks for any help.

MacBook Pro 13″, OS X 10.11

Posted on Apr 15, 2021 10:06 AM

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Posted on Apr 15, 2021 10:19 AM

I hard restarted while holding command+r and tried again. This time it gave me just erase instead of erase volumes. It then successfully erased the drive and I was able to reinstall the OS.

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Mac Erase Process has Failed - What to do?

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