erase a password locked Macbook Air SSD

[Alan.L]

i have a 2013 macbook air harddrive here. how do i erase this locked drive?

 

[dukefawks]

Just erase it....

 

[Alan.L]

cant, wont let me. it asking for password when i press erase which i dont have. i think it has FileVault2 enabled.

 

[dukefawks]

Erase partition first, then erase the actual drive. I have never had issues, but could be that there is some new bullshit that will prevent it now.

 

[dukefawks]

This has also worked for me in the past, in terminal

diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ name disk0

Assuming the SSD is disk0 of course.

 

[Alan.L]

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It has new type of corestorage bs. that command wont work.

 

[dukefawks]

Not seen this before, so I cannot help you further.

 

[iambehr]

Boot from external recovery, try to erase it. Use an older version of Mac OS recovery, or just boot fedora and wipe it.

 

[Alan.L]

boot from Mavericks recovery didnt work. when i use disk Utility, it show a unlock button and when i try erase it say you cant read partition then it unmount itself.

i'll try fedora. thanks

 

[Alan.L]

doesnt work. error, wont allow. i;ve tried edit partition and format.

 

[dukefawks]

Ask the owner for the pass or this is trash.