

You will be taken back to the previous macOS Utilities menu. Step 6: Congratulation, you have now erased everything off your Mac and you have no active operating system. Hit the Erase button to proceed, but be aware that this will erase all content on the machine.
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Keep the name of the hard drive as “Macintosh HD” and ensure that the Format drop-down is selected as either “APFS (Encrypted)” (if you have a modern Mac with faster SSD) or “ Mac OS Extended (Journaled)” if you have a older Mac with mechanical hard drive. Step 5: Make sure that the main Mac hard drive is selected from the menu on the left-hand side and then select the Erase button at the top of the interface. Select the Disk Utility option and select Continue.


Once completed, you will be given the macOS Utilities menu. Step 4: The machine will then go through a process of checks. You will be taken into a new menu that asks you where you want to boot from so make sure that you select the inserted USB drive. Turn the Mac on and make sure that you have the Option key pressed during the boot process. Step 3: Make sure the Mac is turned off and the USB drive is plugged into one of the USB ports. Once that process has been completed, jump right back in here. The creation of that drive is beyond the realms of this walkthrough but we have a complete separate guide on it which you can follow here. Step 2: You now need to create a bootable USB drive that allows you to boot and install macOS Mojave directly from it. Once that downloader is downloaded, if it tries to walk you through the installation process then quit out of it. This will give you the installer file that you require. Step 1: First and foremost, you are going to need to download macOS Mojave 10.14 from the Mac App Store. To find out if your Mac hardware is supported by this release, check here: macOS 10.14 Mojave Compatibility: Full List Of Compatible Macs.
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You can find how to backup your Mac with Time Machine in our post here (look under “Backup”). Make sure that all important data and any files or documents are backed up so that they aren’t lost in the process.
