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In some cases, this issue is facilitated by a fairly common inconsistency that can be resolved easily via a simple Mac restart.

Whenever they try to open it, the Disk Utility ends up displaying the ‘ Loading disks‘ message endlessly without actually displaying any of the disks. This is usually due to an issue with the recovery mode partition itself, which may need to be recreated, or due to booting from internet recovery mode rather than normal recover mode.Some macOS users are reporting that they are suddenly unable to verify the status of their HDD or SSD drives via the Disk Utility.

Rarely, some Mac users may find that the “Utilities” menu is totally missing from Mac OS recovery mode entirely, which negates the ability to access the Terminal. We regularly cover all sorts of Terminal and command line tips, so feel free to browse around and learn a bit more if interested. That, plus the generally more archaic user interface of text input, make the command line most appropriate for advanced Mac users only. The terminal is powerful and requires exact syntax to execute commands properly, it’s also unforgiving in that an improperly typed command can have very unintended side effects that are irreversible. Additionally, you will need to manually access other hard drives or disk partitions if that’s what you’re looking to do, though running commands like the disk repair fsck tool and Terminal app in recovery mode has fewer commands available to it because it is running off of the recovery partition. Terminal app will launch within Recovery Mode, ready for your commands, whether it’s resetting a password, clearing out disk space, disabling or re-enabling SIP in Mac OS, or any of the other myriad functions available via the command line.

Choose “Terminal” to launch Terminal app within Recovery Mode.

At the “MacOS Utilities” screen, pull down the “Utilities” menu from the top of the screen.

Choose the language as usual (if applicable).

Boot into Mac OS Recovery Mode as usual by holding down the Command and R keys during system start.

Accessing the Command Line in Recovery Mode on a Mac Nonetheless, accessing Terminal from Recovery boot mode is easy. But Recovery Mode does not have the same applications directory access, nor does it have Spotlight or Launchpad. For some quick background, on a normally booted Mac, the Terminal application is found within the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, and it can be accessed directly through the folder hierarchy or by using Spotlight to search for and launch Terminal app.