OK Randy, I have obviously remembered wrong. It must have been someone else then :-)
As I recall it was something about ¡°resetting¡± an SSD after extensive use, where it had been filled up or something, and there is no Mac software that can do that, but apperently there is software for PC.
Disk Utility will not format it. Period.
Maybe it¡¯s just garbage. Annoying!
:-)
Peter
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On 20 Mar 2025, at 11.36, Randy B. Singer via groups.io <randy@...> wrote:
On Mar 20, 2025, at 1:05 AM, Peter Rasmusen <peter@...> wrote:
And then in the back of my mind, I seem to remember Randy writing about how to revive a failing SSD - and if I remember right, it would implicate using a PC?
Doesn¡¯t ring a bell.
SSD¡¯s should always be formatted as APFS.
Assuming that your SSD was formatted as APFS, the only repair utility in existence that will work to repair while it is attached to a Mac is Apple¡¯s Disk Utility/First Aid.
You should boot your Mac into Internet Recovery and then go to Disk Utility and run First Aid.
Option-Command-R
for Intel Macs
power button ¡ª> Options ¡ª> Disk Utility
for Apple Silicon Macs
How to Start up in Recovery Mode
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Randy B. Singer
Co-author of The Macintosh Bible (4th, 5th, and 6th editions)
Essential But Hard To Find Macintosh Software and Advice
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