Creating a new disk formatting scheme or altering an existing scheme
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USB Sticks not getting properly recognized
Two of my USB sticks (Lexar and PNY, both 32 GB) are not getting recognized correctly by macOS Sierra. Both worked before (one formatted with NTFS, the other with FAT32); they were then used as ...
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Using a .raw file to create a BOOTCAMP partition
How would one go about using a .raw (hard drive image from a .vdi) file containing an installation of Windows 10 in the creation of a BOOTCAMP partition (for Windows 10), on the latest version of OS X?...
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What does 'free space' mean in "Disk Utility? [on hold]
I want to remove 'Free space' from my disk space:
But when I push minus button in Disk Utility, it shows me an error:
I used diskutil command in Terminal but it has also a problem.
diskutil list ...
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Unable to boot - facing stop sign; Virtual Whole Storage needs repair; Time-Machine cannot find restoration disk destination
Dear respected experts,
I have a MBP Retina 2015 (Yosemite). I tried to partition my Macintosh HD ( internal 1TB SSD) disk (by splitting into half). It seemed to have split but has given me some ...
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Disk space lost after shrinking partition
I have my SSD partitioned into two 128 GB disks. I was managing my disk space and decided to shrink one of my partitions (the one with Mavericks) because it had more free disk space, in order to ...
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FAT (file allocation table) variant used when disk is formatted using OS X (macOS) disk utility
Disk Utility on OS X (macOS) shows "MS-DOS (FAT) " as one of the format options
FAT (File Allocation Table) has many variants like FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32
My questions are mentioned below:
Which FAT ...
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You cannot partition an external disk, a RAID disk or an internal disk on which FileVault encryption is in progress
I'm trying to Boot Camp my Mac Pro (Late 2013, MacPro6,1).
You cannot partition an external disk, a RAID disk or an internal disk on which FileVault encryption is in progress.
Restart your ...
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Corrupted macOS partition after GParted
I followed a tutorial to create dual boot with macOS Sierra 10.12 and Kali-Linux 2.0.
I created a bootable USB drive and booted on a Kali-Linux live session in order to use GParted and resize my ...
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Create one large hard drive partition from multiple smaller ones
Ive got a 4TB HD that i use for cloning, moving machines etc. I previously had it setup as 1tb, 1tb, 2tb. But i was only using c. 400gb, 400gb, 500gb respectivly.
Ive now resized the partitions to ...
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Lost Windows Bootcamp boot entry after resizing the partition
I have a 2011 iMac that I had used Bootcamp utility to install Windows 7 on. I got overzealous and tried to triple boot Windows, Mac and Linux on the iMac. I no longer need Linux on this iMac but the ...
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Can I use the prepared USB from a failed partition Boot Camp
So I am attempting to install Windows 10 from an .iso on my mac and I loaded it into Boot Camp and let it run, it managed to run till the partitioning bit and then it failed, however I did manage to ...
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Remove sparse image partition on El Capitan
I have a sparse image partition on El Capitan. I am not using FileVault. I've looked at several dozen search results on how to remove the partition, all explaining how to erase the partition and then ...
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Can't delete partition on El Capitan
So I created a 6gb FAT partition on the disk utility but I don't need it anymore so I erased it and then tried to resize the main drive so it could take up its space and it just doesn't happen.
this ...
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Restore erased partition table
While trying to write an image to a SD card, I accidentally overwrote an external disk I use for Time Machine backups. I did a
sudo diskutil partitionDisk /dev/disk3 1 MBR "Free Space" "%noformat%" ...
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How to save data from broken GPT, GUID and unmountable, no type volumes?
I have a Macbook Pro mid 2012 and 750GB hard drive. I tried to delete Windows partition on the hard disk and now I can't access my main Mac partition (disk index 2) anymore. It shows something like "...
