Is it possible to restore a 3TB Fusion hard drive to its original configuration on the imac late 2012?
Hi,
i have a Late 2012 imac running on Mavericks. I have been struggling to get boot camp to partition my drive in preparation for Windows dual boot.
i found this doc:
http://www.twocanoes.com/support/winclone/installing-windows-on-a-boot-camp-part ition-on-a-3-tb-fusion-drive
I proceeded to follow but had no success in the final results. I decided to try and revert my Fusion drive back to it original configurations. (one drive)
After following the docs above i had 3 partitions on my hard drive:
Macintosh HD
WIN
MacBonus
I then tried to remove my WIN partion and it turned blue indicating the drive was full. I am now unable to remove this partition i also deleted the MacBonus partition and now that space seems to have completely gone from my mac and i do not seem to be able to repartition this remaining space.
I basically have made a pigs ear out of this and am very confused as to what to do.
Can i revert my Fusion drive back to its factory settings and then re-install a fresh copy of my OS Mavericks on to it?
Any feed back from you pros would be really appreciated
many thanks Paul
Actually, I got a solution from Apple Care's senior advisors, and wanted to see if it'd still be useful to share =]
Here it is:
Go to Terminal under OS X Internet Recovery (Cmd-Opt-R)
Enter - diskutil CoreStorage list
Identify disk's numeric serial number
Enter - diskutil CoreStorage delete <serial number>
After this, open Disk Utility again and a box should pop up asking if you want to fix the drives in red text.
Fix, then reinstall OS X.
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What else can I do. All of itunes should be on the external hard drive. I think 3TB is plenty of space. Could it be my iphoto? I moved all those to the external hard drive too.
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Yes, you should format the HD.
A Mac can natively write to a NTSF drive and that is what most drives com formatted with.
You should use the Mac journaled format.
Once again you are posting incorrect information
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And a Mac can not Natively write to an NTSF drive - it can natively read it but can not write to it with special software
And since formatting a drive erases it it is critical to tell users not to format until they have a positively known good backup
The TOU for these forum state that you should test your answers prior to posting them -- you obviously are not doing that and you advice is endangering users photos - please only post tested answers
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i buy the new imac,late 2012 with a hard-drive 3TB and i want to change with another hard-drive 1TB....where i can buy?
It's also much more difficult to install third-party hard drives in current or recent Macs than it was. See:
http://blog.macsales.com/10146-apple-further-restricts-upgrade-options-on-new-im acs
The 2012 iMacs are also in essence glued together and very difficult to disassemble and reassemble. The bottom line is: don't try it.
Why, if I may ask, would you want to remove the 3TB drive and replace it with a 1TB drive? What is it you hope to achieve even if it were possible?
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CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
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+-- Logical Volume Group C2619AFE-0EB5-4721-8C50-3F3DBA520D1B
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Status: Online
Size: 1120333979648 B (1.1 TB)
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| Disk: disk0s2
| Status: Online
| Size: 120988852224 B (121.0 GB)
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| ----------------------------------------------------
| Index: 1
| Disk: disk1s2
| Status: Online
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Encryption Status: Unlocked
Encryption Type: None
Conversion Status: NoConversion
Conversion Direction: -none-
Has Encrypted Extents: No
Fully Secure: No
Passphrase Required: No
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Restoring using an external hard drive help
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Can I restore docs from my hard drive if they were backed up using time machine?
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