I am experiencing an identical problem to the one in: Unable to format internal drive as APFS on 2018 MacBook Pro. My internal drive can format to everything except APFS, I have tried troubleshooting via linux, and simple disk utility. Fsck and first aid both report no problems and this is driving me insane!! Help desperately needed! The good news is you can use Disk Utility just as you have in previous releases to migrate a drive. You need to format the new drive with APFS before initiating the clone, and you can boot into. If it is only giving you the option for APFS formats, then you are likely trying to format only the logical volume within the APFS Container. To show the container and physical disk in disk utility usually you have to change the view option to 'show all devices' from 'show only volumes'. Format: Choose APFS or Mac OS Extended (Journaled). Disk Utility shows a compatible format by default. If you see an Erase Volume Group button, the volume you selected is part of a volume group. In that case, you should erase the volume group. Otherwise, click Erase to erase just the selected volume. You might be asked to enter your Apple ID.
See APFS with Time Machine, Boot Camp & File Vault for information. My suggestion would be to use HFS+, but that requires you re-format the entire drive erasing all that is on the drive. If that isn't a problem then do the following:
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- Restart the computer. Immediately after the chime hold down the CommandandRkeys until the Apple logo appears. When the Utility Menu appears:
- Select Disk Utility from the Utility Menu and click on Continue button.
- When Disk Utility loads select the physical drive (out-dented entry, usually model name) from the Device list.
- Click on the Erase icon in Disk Utility's main window. A panel will drop down.
- Set the Format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.)
- Click on the Apply button, then wait for the Done button to activate and click on it.
- Quit Disk Utility and return to the Utility Menu.
- Select Install OS X and click on the Continue button.
Dec 30, 2017 10:54 AM
