How can I read AND edit the contents of the drive? I want to delete a couple files, and I'm pretty sure it will mount / boot again. Info says there are 0 bytes available on the drive, which was my suspicion. I have been able to clone the drive (and boot from it) and could just restore it back to this one (I think), but I want to try and 'fix' it to resolve the issue. Running verify reports: The volume Macintosh HD appears to be OK. Select the parent folder for the drive you want to reformat or erase, then click the Erase button again.

You should see the device names for each of your drives appear in the sidebar. I sometimes also get: Disk Utility stopped repairing “Macintosh HD” Unrecognized file system Open Disk Utility and select View > Show All Devices from the menu bar. Step 3: Select the partition where you lost data and click 'Next' to scan all lost files on this partition. Step 2: Click 'Find Lost APFS Partitions' on the top right corner and then choose the uninitialized AppleAPFSMedia to scan all lost partitions on this drive. Verifying and repairing partition map for “APPLE SSD SM0128G Media” sometimes reports 'Error: A disk with a mount point is required.' Step 1: Download, install and launch iBoysoft Data Recovery for Mac on your Mac. It reports nothing wrong with the hard drive, but it will not mount the Macintosh HD.

I brought the system up as a target drive, running Disk Tools and Drive Genius 4 from my Macbook Pro running Yosemite. I'm running El Cap, on a 2TB Fusion Drive, iMac 5k.

I clicked on apple ssd disc and proceeded to erase it. I was working in Adobe Photoshop with some large files, and I believe it filled the Macintosh HD with scratch files. Apple ssd ap0128J Media and osx disks as opposed to common Macintosh HD.

Erasing apple ssd sm0128g media failed