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kirkbross

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Mar 6, 2007
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Los Angeles
I solved this with a terminal command:

sudo gpt destroy /dev/diskx

...where x was the disk I wanted to nuke and reformat, in my case, disk3

Be VERY careful with this that you are choosing the right disk. Run this command in Terminal to see your disk details:

diskutil list
 
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