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Originally Posted by CIVMatt
Hey guyz, I have a mac mini I bought and barely used - the OS was trashed out of the blue and I need to reinstall, when I hold the R on reboot I start the install from the internet and once it's ready to go it asks what drive I want to install it on and there's nothing listed. I'm guessing I have a bad drive but not sure. THought I'd ask since seeing this thread.
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on the install screen there should be a menu bar, on that menu bar there should be a menu item named "Utilities". Click utilities then from the drop-down menu, click "Disk Utility".
Once in disk utility, you should at least see the HDD listed in the left panel. If not then chances are the HDD is bad. To confirm the hdd is bad, or at least isn't being picked up by the system, you can close Disk Utility then from the same utilities menu, open Terminal, then type "diskutil list" and hit enter. Your disk should be listed there in the output, if not then something is obviously wrong somewhere.
If you do see the HDD in the left panel, click on it, then in the right panel, click on "Partition". Under "Partition Layout" it *should* say "Current", click that drop-down menu, then select "1 Partition". Below the partition area, there is an "Options" button, click it. Confirm or set the partition scheme to "GUID Partition Table" then click ok. Then click "Apply", wait for it to complete.
Once that is done, simply close Disk utility to get back to the installer screen and proceed with installation as normal.