Macbook Air not completely erased

Hi,
So I went to the Genius Bar and an Apple employee gave me directions on how to erase my macbook air's disk utility and ten reinstall the OS but when the computer started back up there are still contents from the previous of the erased disk utility that is still on disk utility. Somethings did erase, but there are still stuff there, so I was wondering if anyone has any idea on how to fix this issue?

Maybe you can go to you're local apple store, that's even better, so they can help you. Sorry I hope this helps and this is really good advice.
Sapphire912 wrote:
Hi,
So I went to the Genius Bar and an Apple employee gave me directions on how to erase my macbook air's disk utility and ten reinstall the OS but when the computer started back up there are still contents from the previous of the erased disk utility that is still on disk utility. Somethings did erase, but there are still stuff there, so I was wondering if anyone has any idea on how to fix this issue?

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