It should only take a minute or two for the drive to be erased and reformatted. Give your drive a name, choose OS X Extended (Journaled) for Format and GUID Partition Map for Scheme.
When you click Erase, a dialog will pop up where you can configure some options. Make sure you backup any data before you erase the drive. Under External in the left hand menu, click on your external hard drive and then click on the Erase button. To do this, open Disk Utility and connect the drive to your Mac. The file format has to be Mac OS X Journaled and you have to use the GUID partition map. You can now quit Terminal and eject the volume.The first thing you’re going to need to do is format the external hard drive properly. When Terminal says that it's done, the volume will have the same name as the installer you downloaded, such as Install macOS Monterey.After the volume is erased, you may see an alert that Terminal would like to access files on a removable volume.Terminal shows the progress as the volume is erased. When prompted, type Y to confirm that you want to erase the volume, then press Return.Terminal doesn't show any characters as you type.
When prompted, type your administrator password.If the volume has a different name, replace MyVolume in the command with the name of your volume. Each command assumes that the installer is in your Applications folder, and MyVolume is the name of the USB flash drive or other volume you're using. Type or paste one of the commands below into Terminal, then press Return to enter the command.Open Terminal, which is in the Utilities folder of your Applications folder.Plug in the USB flash drive or other volume that you're using for the bootable installer.
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