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Target is not convertible to APFS: This volume is not formatted as Mac OS Extended

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My installer keeps failing with that error (title). I can't get it working.. I tried to use terminal and format the drive as JHFS+ but it still gives the same error.. Anyone know how to fix?
 
firebat said:
My installer keeps failing with that error (title). I can't get it working.. I tried to use terminal and format the drive as JHFS+ but it still gives the same error.. Anyone know how to fix?
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Use the installer and at the Utilities screen use Disk Utility to format the drive.
 
P1LGRIM said:
Use the installer and at the Utilities screen use Disk Utility to format the drive.
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I have like 15 times now.. :C I have tried with a harddrive and a ssd; that's when I tried using terminal
 
firebat said:
I have like 15 times now.. :C I have tried with a harddrive and a ssd; that's when I tried using terminal
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Make sure that View -> Show All Devices is selected in Disk Utility and that you are erasing the top level of the disk.
Another thing that you can try is to format/erase the drive with another operating system.
 
P1LGRIM said:
Make sure that View -> Show All Devices is selected in Disk Utility and that you are erasing the top level of the disk.
Another thing that you can try is to format/erase the drive with another operating system.
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Yeah.. I am going to boot ubuntu and format the ssd and try again. Super weird... never had this issue before.. Thanks for the help btw!
 
firebat said:
Yeah.. I am going to boot ubuntu and format the ssd and try again. Super weird... never had this issue before.. Thanks for the help btw!
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You didn't mention that it was an SSD before, make sure that you have apfs.efi in /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/ on the EFI partition of your installer.
 
P1LGRIM said:
You didn't mention that it was an SSD before, make sure that you have apfs.efi in /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/ on the EFI partition of your installer.
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Oh sorry forgot to mention that, but yeah I do have afps.efi
 
P1LGRIM said:
You didn't mention that it was an SSD before, make sure that you have apfs.efi in /EFI/CLOVER/drivers64UEFI/ on the EFI partition of your installer.
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Didn't work; even tried formating drive in Ubuntu.. installer resets with same error.. this is annoying. Never had this issue before.

Going to try and install on the SSD from a different system then transfer it over...
 
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