Re: Big Sur has my MacBook Pro hard drive held prisoner

2020-12-06 Thread Robert Hill
Hi Jonathan, Thanks for the information. Looks like I need to poke around some more. Bob > On Dec 5, 2020, at 10:03 PM, Jonathan Cohn wrote: > > BigSir has done things in a different way from all earlier os's. The main > system is a snapshot that is readonly and very hard protected. If you

Re: Big Sur has my MacBook Pro hard drive held prisoner

2020-12-05 Thread Jonathan Cohn
BigSir has done things in a different way from all earlier os's. The main system is a snapshot that is readonly and very hard protected. If you look at Macintosh HD< you should see two volumes within it, one the system volume and the other data. I expect you can only change the data one. Also,

Re: Big Sur has my MacBook Pro hard drive held prisoner

2020-12-04 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! One thing you might not be aware of is that disk utility in Recovery mode crashes VoiceOver. Its a bug and very annoying. /A > 4 dec. 2020 kl. 19:08 skrev Robert Hill : > > Hi all, > > I installed Big Sur on my MacBook Pro when it first came out. > > I was having some issues that I was hop

Big Sur has my MacBook Pro hard drive held prisoner

2020-12-04 Thread Robert Hill
Hi all, I installed Big Sur on my MacBook Pro when it first came out. I was having some issues that I was hoping to resolve by erasing my drive and starting over. When I went into disk utilities, I wasn't able to erase my drive, that option was dimmed out. So I went into recovery mode hoping