Macintosh HD partition delete.

Hello All,
Simply, my problem is that I do not have a selectable hardrive to either load a back up copy of timemachine or to download a copy of Yosemite.
To get to this sorry state I went through the following steps:
1. My Macbook Air SSD, was completly full so I wanted to carry out a full rebuild and start from scratch.
2. I made a full backup copy through TimeMachine and also copied my photos and other important files to an Western digital 500Gb external harddrive.
3. Restarted the Mac using Option + R, went to diskUtility, and erased the Macintosh Harddrive, ensuring that the journaled option is chosen.
4. Downloaded and successfully installed Maverick.Immedialty updgraded to Yosemite.
5. Linked Itunes to my NAS drive, and then realised that I did not copy all the iTunes cover work and structure from my local drive. Decided to revert back to the original state to get what I needed.
6. Restarted the Mac uisng Option + R and tried to use the previously saved backup from the external drive, was told that there was not enough space.
7. This is where it all starts going wrong! Went to diskutilkity and erased the partion again and then tried to use the backup, but there is no harddrive to select.
8. Back to diskutility, there is no partition indicated beneath the top level macintosh HD line item. In the partiton tab all the dropdowns and textboxes are grey out and can't be selected.
9. within the avaliable drives I do have disk1 with a OS X Base System partition.
I am unable to download or install anything and so basically stuck!
I would appreciate any help or thoughts that you may have.
Thanks for your help. Also let me know if I have posted in the wrong forum.
Cheers

You could try first to convert it to a 'normal' Mac volume by doing the following in Terminal.app
diskutil eraseVolume JHFS+ Blank /dev/disk0s6
Then try deleting it in the GUI normal DiskUtility program. If you still cannot delete then try also doing the following.
First expand the Macintosh HD partition to use all the empty space. This will not destroy any data.
Then back in Terminal.app try the following
diskutil mergePartitions JHFS+ "Macintosh HD" disk0s3 disk0s6
Note: Instead of disk0s3 use whatever corresponds to your existing Macintosh HD partition. Macintosh HD needs to be a Journaled HFS+ volume. You can use the following to list all the partitions.
diskutil list
The following is what the 'manual' for DiskUtility says
mergePartitions [force] format name fromDevice toDevice
                Merge two or more partitions on a disk. All data on merged
                partitions other than the first will be lost. Data on the
                first partition will be lost as well if the force argument is
                given.
                If force is not given, and the first partition has a resizable
                file system (e.g. JHFS+), the file system will be preserved
                and grown in a data-preserving manner; your format and name
                parameters are ignored in this case. If force is not given,
                and the first partition is not resizable, you are prompted if
                you want to format. You will also be prompted to format if
                the first partition has an (HFS) Allocation Block Size which
                is too small to support the required growth of the first par-
                tition; see the -b option for newfs_hfs (8).

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Macintosh HD partition is not visible in Windows

Hello
I've a MacBook Pro mid 2012.
A week ago I had a problem with OSX 10.9 and the Apple Premium Reseller fixed it with a clean instal of OSX. I've set everything back with my Time-machine backup. Because it was a software problem, my windows partition wasn't damaged. In Finder I can see the BootCamp-partition and of course my Macintosh HD-partition. But when boot with windows I can only see the Windows BootCamp-partition but not he Macintosh HD-partition. And that's my problem. I want to see the Macintosh HD-partition in windows. Before the clean install I could see the Macintosh HD-partition and now I want it back because I need it.
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Can someone solve my problem please?
Thank you very much for helping me out!
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The number of partitions should be four (the ESP/EFI information, OSX, Recovery HD and Bootcamp) on a single disk Mac machine.
From a working system with bootcamp, the partition id for entry 2 is AF (not AC) as is shown in your MBR, and the Windows installation only understands MBR (if you do not install using Windows 8.x/EFI on late 2013 Macs).
sudo fdisk /dev/disk0
Password:
Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 121643/255/63 [1954210120 sectors]
Signature: 0xAA55
         Starting       Ending
#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [     start -       size]
1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [         1 -     409639] <Unknown ID>
2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [    409640 - 1452530904] HFS+
3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1452940544 -    1269536] Darwin Boot
*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [1454211072 - 499998720] HPFS/QNX/AUX
There is a simple fix for this. You may have to re-install Bootcamp drivers again, to allow the HFS driver to pickup the MBR entry or a reboot may be needed. Please use the following commands and stop if you see any errors. (the i386 boot error message at the start can be ignored safely). This is done by using the fdisk utility in interactive mode with the '-e' command line option.
sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
p
setpid 2
AF
p
w
y
Here is the help page for the fdisk utility.
sudo fdisk -e /dev/disk0
Password:
fdisk: could not open MBR file /usr/standalone/i386/boot0: No such file or directory
Enter 'help' for information
fdisk: 1> ?
help Command help list
manual Show entire man page for fdisk
reinit Re-initialize loaded MBR (to defaults)
auto Auto-partition the disk with a partition style
setpid Set the identifier of a given table entry
disk Edit current drive stats
edit Edit given table entry
erase Erase current MBR
flag Flag given table entry as bootable
update Update machine code in loaded MBR
select Select extended partition table entry MBR
print Print loaded MBR partition table
write Write loaded MBR to disk
exit Exit edit of current MBR, without saving changes
quit Quit edit of current MBR, saving current changes
abort Abort program without saving current changes
fdisk: 1>

Can't create Macintosh HD partition - greyed out

I was erasing the data on a mid 2012 MacBook Air before giving it away and I think I deleted the Macintosh HD partition (The second one from the top in disk utility that is indented over.)
Once this happened I lost the OS X and was not able to get past OS X Utilities when turning it on.
I tried doing the Reinstall OS X but my entire hard drive (128gb) was not there to select, only the recovery HD (approximately 600mb.)
I was able to download OS X onto a flash drive and that lets me get into the MacBook, however I still cannot access the hard drive.
When I go back into Disk Utility the option to create a partition and access the entire 120gb is greyed out.
I don't care about saving/recovering any information, I just want it back to normal.
If anyone can help me out it would be greatly appreciated, thank you!

Do this:
Install OS X Using Internet Recovery
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Internet Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND-OPTION- R keys until a globe appears on the screen. Wait patiently - 15-20 minutes - until the Recovery main menu appears.
Partition and Format the hard drive:
Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
After DU loads select your newly installed hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
Under the Volume Scheme heading set the number of partitions from the drop down menu to one. Click on the Options button, set the partition scheme to GUID then click on the OK button. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Click on the Partition button and wait until the process has completed. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall OS X: Select Reinstall OS X and click on the Install button. Be sure to select the correct drive to use if you have more than one.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
This should restore the version of OS X originally pre-installed on the computer.

Macintosh HD Partition Split?

Hardware is new iMac 27" with Retina Display, and 3TB Fusion Drive.
Installed Windows 7 using Boot Camp Assistant. No errors were encountered during the install.
Here is the resulting Partition Map from Disk Utility:
Note that the Macintosh HD Partition is split into two sections with the Boot Camp in the middle. The sizes of the partitions in order from top to bottom are: 2.08 TB, 120 GB, 801.44 GB.
The other anomaly is that when booting with the [option] key you are presented with 4 choices. They are 3 identical Macintosh HD disks followed by 1 Windows disk. I have tried booting from all of them and they all work.
So my question is, "What's going on here?" I have a call in to Apple Support and waiting for them to get back to me. If I get an answer, I'll post it for your consideration.

Loner T wrote:
... uses a Hybrid MBR which is limited to four (4) partitions and a 2TB (2.2Tib) upper space limit. A 3TB Fusion drive is split three ways to work around this limit.
The disk can be partitioned using just GPT for W8.1 and an EFI installation can also address this three-way split.
What is a "Hybrid MBR"? Please explain "GPT" and if there is any reason to address this split. The Apple support person told me that this does not affect any performance issues with the system.
Thanks for your comments! I recall you helped me with installing Windows on my MacPro last year.

How can I resize my Macintosh HD partition?

Last year I had to create three partitions (120 GB for Macintosh HD, 510 GB for Data, and 120GB for Spare) on my HDD for a program I was taking. However, I'm finding that a 120 GB partition for Macintosh HD isn't sufficient for my needs anymore and would like to know if there is a way to expand the allocated size. Selecting the Macintosh HD partition and resizing the bottom-right corner will only allow me to decrease the size of the partition, not increase it. I've also tried doing this booting from a different partition and USB thumb drive.

The reason on why this is happening is because in Disk Utility, once a partition has been created it can only be either split, or reduced in size. That's why you were able to initially split your MacBook Pro partition in three different partitions.
Unfortunately, your only course of action is to boot inside your OS X Installer and from there re-map your hard drive. Consequently, this means that you'll have to format your hard drive and reinstall OS X and then restore your data from your hard drive back up.
If you ever decide to go ahead and format your hard drive I strongly recommend having some form of back up for your data. Things like uploading your personal files to the cloud or USB thumb or external drive are a good start and having copies of the third-party application installers can certainly help in the proccess as well. The ideal and less complicated route is to just attach an external drive and back up all your files via Time Machine.
I hope this information brings some clarification to your issue.
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I cannot boot anymore after I tried to repair the disk with Disk Utility after my Mac became very slow.
This is the second time it happened to me in a week with the same symptoms. When I try to boot, I see a gray screen and the computer just stops
When I use the recovery partition, the disk utility fails to repair the disk, stopping after failing to fix the catalog file.
I started to use TM to backup my data after erasing the disk and reinstalling Mountain Lion but I wonder if my hard drive is damaged because the same problem happened twice. (Thanks TM for keeping my data safe this time)
Any advice or ways to fix that once and for all ?
PS : The worst is that i can still boot with Bootcamp to Windows, not very useful though

rpignard wrote:
Any advice or ways to fix that once and for all ?
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This can sometimes occur if the computer was moved while the hard drive was in operation, else sectors fail all by themselves, or if the drive is having mechanical issues, which you problem will continue no matter what you do.
This time when you use Recovery > Disk Utility to erase the Macintosh HD partition, use the middle secure erase option, not the far left or right options (the right will work also just take a really long time)
What your doing is with the middle secure erase option is called a "Zero" write, which Disk Utility will write 0's over all the bits in that partition. When it's done it will read it back for confirmation and when it does so, any bits that are failing will be mapped off by the drive. Hopefully this will resolve the issue without needing a drive replacement.
Once that is completed, reinstall OS X from Recovery, any programs from original sources, files only from backup and your problems hopefully should disappear.
What happens is if your data gets corrupted on the boot drive by failing sectors, it gets transfered to TimeMachine (or to bootable clones) and when you restore your right back to square one. So it's important to rule out that possibility with original installs of OS X and third party programs.
If your problems continue, then it's possibly a problem with third party at boot kernel extension files, (and the catalog problem was yet another one) so to solve this you need to make sure all your third party software is updated and works with your current OS X version.
A trick is, if you get gray screen at boot time, is to hold the Shift Key while booting the computer, this will disable a lot of things and allow you to fix the third party software issue.
What I suggest you do is have multiple backup systems, including hold option key bootable clones, this way if your TM drive gets corrupted you can go back in time to a saved state on the clone, restore that and then your files from the TM drive.
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Hello
I have accidentally deleted recovery partition of my compaq presario cq61 (win7 home premium 64bit) while trying to install another operating system. Before the accident I had the C drive and the D drive marked Recovery, now after deleted the other operating system I have the C drive and a D drive marked as System.
It's possible to recover this partition from an image back-up I made before?
Thanks
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Hi Michele,
Recovering the recovery partition is not that likely to be a possibility with a free program. The chances of restoring it from the windows backup is also quite slim.
If your brother's notebook is absolutely identical then using it is a viable solution to the problem. If it is not identical then it will be a waste of time as the recovery manager itself will refuse to work.
The best option is to use a recovery disk that is made specifically for or created by your notebook. $30.00 is a lot cheaper than purachasing an operating system.
You can backup the current disk partitions with a program like the Paragon program I provided you a link to in an earlier post. At least that way you will have a reliable image of the current situation on your notebook's hard disk.
You can also legally reinstall Windows by using the Microsoft Windows license on the certificate of authenticity on the bottom of your notebook.
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Lenovo Masters:
Good day to you all.
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Expi1 wrote:Thanks, I'm mostly struggling with how to partition for Arch and then how to do the bootloader. I'm using Win8 64-bit and from what I understand a Legacy BIOS bootloader. I'm not entirely sure what I should be partitioning the C: into, I've done partitions before, just not for Arch and then I'm not sure whether to use GRUB or syslinux, or if I even need those. Or if I need to use GPT or MBR?
Your disk is already partitionned so you don’t have to choose between GPT or MBR, the choice is already made.
You don’t partition “C:”, that is the name of a Windows partition. You partition a drive.
Grub or syslinux, use whatever the beginners guide tells you to. Personally I think syslinux is simpler which is why I’m using it (but I’m not dual-booting, if that matters).
You’re not saying what your problem is with partitionning, so it’s hard to help.
Thanks for getting back to me, I'm not sure if I just create one large partition for Archlinux or if I have to create multiple? Where I'm also confused is with the Creating Filesystems part of the guide. I don't understand how I'd do this in Windows, or what /dev/sda1 is referring to.
As for the bootloader part, the Beginner's Guide gives you a choice between syslinux and grub, what I'm not sure about is which to use considering I'm dualbooting. How it will affect my windows bootloader, do I disregard that and use GRUB now? I'm unclear on how that works.
I'm also aware I need to disable Secure Boot, I just searched my BIOS options and couldn't find anything remotely relating to that, so I'm assuming it's not an issue since this computer was originally on Windows 7 anyway?
Thanks again, Expi.
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Appreciate your help!
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I did the erase from Disk Utility. At the time I had started the computer by holding down Ctrl+R, so i am not sure which recovery drive it used. I can say however that I do still have the recovery partition.
Im a bit dense when it comes to Apples. How do i go about re-installing from the recovery? Also, how do i get around the unmouting issue?

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I decided to create recovery discs for my hp envy 17, and try to do it by cyberlink , unfortunately i delete amy recovery partition file (it's about 300mb file in disc D:/ ) so pleas help me to download that file
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