HI LaFinish. I’m afraid I’m not familiar with that error, so I suggest searching for that error on Apple’s Community Forums or elsewhere on Google. From my quick searches, some have suggested that it is a message indicating that "The underlying task reported failure" is a very rare error, which indicates that your HDD has problems that the Disk Utility cannot fix. If this is true, this could indicate a potential hardware issue, or simply the need to re-format and OS re-install (backing up all files beforehand!).
Either way, it may be wise to ensure that you have all of your personal files backed up if you haven’t already.
But these are just from quick searches, so please do search the error on Google and see what others have experienced with the same message. Sorry I can’t be of any more help. Good luck!
Ah great Maurice - glad to hear you managed to work through it! It’s a bit confusing initially, but yes, when it asks for a password after using the ‘sudo’ command, you won’t see any recognition of your keystrokes on the keyboard, but rest assured it is registering them! Hope all is well.
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HI LaFinish. I’m afraid I’m not familiar with that error, so I suggest searching for that error on Apple’s Community Forums or elsewhere on Google. From my quick searches, some have suggested that it is a message indicating that "The underlying task reported failure" is a very rare error, which indicates that your HDD has problems that the Disk Utility cannot fix. If this is true, this could indicate a potential hardware issue, or simply the need to re-format and OS re-install (backing up all files beforehand!).
Either way, it may be wise to ensure that you have all of your personal files backed up if you haven’t already.
But these are just from quick searches, so please do search the error on Google and see what others have experienced with the same message. Sorry I can’t be of any more help. Good luck!
Ah great Maurice - glad to hear you managed to work through it! It’s a bit confusing initially, but yes, when it asks for a password after using the ‘sudo’ command, you won’t see any recognition of your keystrokes on the keyboard, but rest assured it is registering them! Hope all is well.