Not sure it will help but in my issue, it won’t start up and only reinstall system software is an option. Only after picking that option, I canceled and went back and forth and after a few times of canceling the initialize option, all the options become available. This only works if you hold the power till the second beep to get to safe mode, not just turning it on and let it start in safe mode as mine does. I figured this out accidentally but it still didn’t help having all options cause nothing worked. Hope this works for someone but it seems this problem we all share is not solvable with our present hard drive…