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I broke an installation of Deep Freeze on a Macbook by upgrading it to El Capitan. I'd like to get Deep Freeze to work again, but "This version of Deep Freeze cannot be installed on a Mac that has CoreStorage volume". There are many guides to reverting a CoreStorage volume on the internet, but the steps aren't working for me.

I open terminal and type "diskutil cs list" and get the list of volumes on the Macbook, the revertible area tells me "Yes (no decryption required)". When I type "diskutil cs revert [logical volume UUID]" I get the error "The given UUID is not a valid CoreStorage Logical Volume UUID. I erased the hard drive and installed El Capitan fresh making sure to uncheck FileVault when I was setting it up, but I'm still getting the same error. Is there another method for disabling CoreStorage on Macbooks that I'm not aware of? Appreciate any help regarding this.

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  • Your case is strange since it should be possible to install El Capitan without using Core Storage, if you do not have a Fusion drive. You could try creating a USB bootable installer, then after booting from the installer, create a regular HFS+ partition to install El Capitan on to. I know it is possible to install El Captan without using Core Storage since all three of my Macs are setup this way.
    – David Anderson
    Commented Aug 30, 2016 at 2:27

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I ended up stumbling across the answer to my own questions (although David is right, I could have avoided it by following his steps). The guides I found all pointed to the first UUID, but it's actually the 4th one after running the disktutil cs list command. Simple, but took me forever to find. Thanks everyone!

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If you're willing to erase the disk again:

diskutil cs delete <UUID of Logical Volume Group>
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    Commented Aug 29, 2016 at 18:10

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