monteblack7

Okay i'm working on the macOS install disk right now. One thing I didn't mention is that after trying a bunch of different things, I can't get my mac to do anything now. I was attempting an OS reinstall and for whatever reason my macbook won't make it past the install. i keep getting a screen that has a circle with a slash through it. Am I able to still somehow boot to a linux OS? Or is there another way that I can go about wiping the drive?

Looking for help with my macbook. Here's the rundown - I had used bootcamp to partition my ssd so I could boot either MacOS or Windows. I've used it for a couple years just fine. Well I decided that I didn't need Windows anymore on it so using the bootcamp software I followed the instructions on removing the Windows partition. Thats when the partition failed and it's no where to be found. So my mac is showing that I have ~200 gigs of storage when I should have ~250. So after trying many many solutions found online all involving the disk utility and macs "first aid" and restoring from a backup and factory resetting... Macbook still shows 200 gigs. Does this mean the other partition is gone forever and corrupted? Main Question- How in the fetch do I do a full on wipe of my Macbooks SSD. EVERY SOLUTION I FOUND, only involves using the disk utility to do it. I want my SSD to be 100% wiped and start over. The disk utility and first aid don't do squat. However, I need the solution to include how to then manually reinstall MacOS or else it does me no good. Thanks in advance for anyone who has insight for this problem.

Okay so it's all fixed. I ended up having to do a fresh install of Windows. Weird enough, the problem was caused by my riser cable for my graphics card and it somehow caused a permanent problem with windows wanting to boot. So after getting a new riser cable and doing a fresh install of Windows, I have not had a problem since. Thanks for the help!

I've been a bit busy so I just got around to trying out your suggestions. So far I've only tried reseating everything and doing a system restore. No luck.. So now I'll try a fresh windows 10 install on my spare HDD. After messing around with some things I've noticed I only get the BSOD when I touch the graphics card at all. Then after a couple failed attempts I can get the computer to boot properly and it won't have the issue till I mess with the graphics card again. So I tried a different graphics card, got the same BSOD. So at this point I'm really hoping that it's windows and not a hardware issue with the pcle x16 slot because I really don't want to buy a new motherboard. I'll keep you posted with what goes on.

Cool, I'll try out those things. Thanks.

I'm using an i7-7700k processor, 16gb ddr4-3000 G.Skill trident-z memory, EVGA GTX 1060 6gb all on an MSI Gaming Pro Carbon Mobo. So I upgraded my computer case about a year ago (this is when this all started happening...) and quite often now when I start up my computer i'll give me a BSOD and say bad_system_config but will not give me a single error code. If I keep rebooting and trying, I can eventually get my PC to boot up properly and it's fine until I turn it off again. So I'm not sure if I messed something up when transferring the components to the new case but it doesn't make much sense to me that my computer would sometimes boot and stay on as long as I used it, but not consistently...