How to Fix: Could Not Create a Preboot Volume for APFS - MacBooks & Mac Desktops

hey what is up guys so recently my sister tries to factor we set her MacBook Pro and then somehow she went into a problem where when she tries to re-install the OS and it keeps on popping up the message so right now I'm trying to reinstall the OS so that I can show you guys what the problem looks like ok so it's about one more minute ok so this is the message so this says of could not create a pre boot volume for a PFS install and then yeah I keeps on showing this message whenever she are trying to install her Mac OS on High Sierra so you don't want to install this this Drive so press on ok and then from there you can just shut down your MacBook so I'm gonna do that just wait for it to shut down completely yeah you guys can see the reflection I'm actually using these two lotion bottles here hold my camera still ok now press on the command or and then press on the power button she load up just hold it there just keep holding it that's it you can release it yeah just press the command and then are while pressing turning on your computer [Music] so it's booted up now so from here yeah so you got a you have to go to Disk Utility so that you can get rid of the current disk because uh the current this is the wrong disc and it shouldn't be removed yeah you see right here my Macintosh HD so we're gonna have to get rid of this disc and make a new disc it is because I this one is created as a PFS volume and it should it should not be a PFS so to remove it we can just click on it and then click on be your waste button right here and then erase I shouldn't take that long depends on how how much storage you have on your disk so once it is done click on done so you can shut down your computer again so just wait for your computer to shut down all the way and now to launch it back up you press on option button right here right next to command then command then or along with the UH power on button [Music] just hold them okay so now it says that starting Internet recovery this may take a while so just wait for that it's gonna start loading just wait for it to load all the way through so mine is about to be there and it takes a really long time for me properties more than ten minutes I guess I think it has to do with how old your computer is so mine even though it says like two seconds it takes a forever so I'm just like warning you guys about that okay finally I got through the first page so right now it is loading up again and just wait for it to boot up okay so now as you can see before it says like Mac I Sierra OS and now it shows only a Mac OS our utilities so from here you can go to click on the disk utility again continue okay from here you're gonna need to create another Drive so to do that you can click on B so from here click on the delete it's gonna delete all the drive start including this one after you delete the drive you can go back to get the internal drive the new Drive press on the X and then click on the disk utility so from here you you got a click on this and they show all devices okay so right here you can try going to the partition right here and then from here choose via Mac OS extended this one since it is a a PFS it is showing the error message so your windows cannot boot up due to this kind of format so you won't you want to change it to Mac OS extended right here name of this Macintosh HD just name it like before HD okay from there and after doing that you can click on apply' portation now I just liking everything and just wait for it to get everything done and just wait for it okay once it is done and you can click on done and from there should be able to boot up the new Drive Young says a Mac OS extended Mountain said the the a something before okay so after that you can actually out of this and then click on the reinstall Mac OS and then click continue I'm curious a little slow so click agree we the 50 only drive it shows up so just click on this since my sister's laptop is not connecting to the power source I'm gonna do that before it allows me to install it okay so I already plugged in the charger so I'm gonna click on this drive click install so from here gonna make you wait for on a how many minutes for you guys but for mine it says 15 minutes oh okay I'm gonna pause it for now and then once it is done I'm just gonna pause it okay so after waiting for the loading it finally boot up so from here just wait for it to boot up so before it was showing that message but now it doesn't show that message anymore and that's how you know it is working using that news like we created okay so right now it is telling me that it is installing and I have about 22 minutes of waiting time so once it is a complete installed I'm gonna unpause the video okay the screen just turned black for me this is a little weird and it made that beep sound I don't know if this is normal now just want to keep you guys updated yeah that happened like after 10 seconds I pause the video just wait for it to load up again and by the way it takes me over an hour from the beginning until now there are lots of waiting in the 20 no sir [Music] now we're back on so I'm gonna chief my country United States and for the keyboard layout United States I'm gonna enter my Wi-Fi password okay press Continue to connectivity Wi-Fi just wait for it to connect okay so data on privacy right here you can just set it up yourself however you like for anything okay right here you can enter your Apple ID it's gonna set it up later it's my sister's computer so I'm just gonna skip it okay there's a few terms and conditions I'm sorry now you can just set up typing the name of the computer however you like I set it up password right here I'm right here Express I set up let's continue okay now everything is a setup now you're back to your MacBook everything should be should be completely new since are you needed be a drive yeah so I hope this works for you guys and if you guys have any more questions just leave them in the comment below and I'll try my best here I answer them thank you so much for watching and if this worked for you guys make sure to leave a like button and also subscribe for more videos again thank you so much for watching peace

Channel: Hoxide

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Keywords: howto, howtofix, could not create a preboot volume for apfs, APFS, MacBook, Mac, MacBookFix, HowToFixAMacBook, Apple, Mac2011, Mac2012, Mac2013, Mac2018, 2018, education, tutorial

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Length: 9min 48sec (588 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 13 2018