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what a mess, it did not work. Erased my flash drive and left me hanging what now?

followed the directions to create installer on flash drive and now have a flash drive that is erased and useless. Why?

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Jan 4, 2022 5:41 PM

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Posted on Jan 4, 2022 6:39 PM

Plug in the flash drive, open Disk Utility and reformat the flash drive.

see > https://www.hellotech.com/guide/for/how-to-format-a-hard-drive-for-mac

or > https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/erase-and-reformat-a-storage-device-dskutl14079/mac

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what a mess, it did not work. Erased my flash drive and left me hanging what now?

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