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Windows can't see "Macintosh HD" under Boot Camp
I bought a new iMac (Retina 4K, 21.5-inch, 2017, with macOS High Sierra 10.13.5) and used Boot Camp to install Windows 10 on it. The Boot Camp drivers seem to have been installed successfully, and ...
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How do I consolidate all my partitions into one partition usable for Bootcamp?
I've been having an issue with Bootcamp recently after I deleted my Windows disk due to a driver issue that was unfixable. I figured I would just do a fresh install of Windows, but little to my ...
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How do I merge the 8 GB of "free space" on Macintosh HD under Logical volume group into Macintosh HD?
I did some partitioning using bootcamp 6.0 to install windows that left a 8 GB of free space with cannot be restored normally, How do I get it back? The diskutils cs list shows:
Last login: Sat Jul ...
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I want to triple-boot Lion, El Capitan, and WIndows. Howto?
I have a late-2011 MBP that currently has two operating systems on it. Those two operating systems were Windows 7 and Lion, for a long time. However, I have to use Yosemite (or newer) for some ...
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Expand OS X partition
I am using a Mac (OS X 10.10.3) that has a Windows and an OS X partition. From Windows, I shrunk the Windows partition using diskmgmt.msc freeing up about 60 GB. I would like to expand the OS X ...
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Missing Space on Drive using Core Storage after Boot Camp Assistant Failure
Using Boot Camp Assistant, I started to create a 50 GB partition, but it hung on partitioning. After waiting about 30 minutes without the progress bar moving, I quit the Boot Camp Assistant, thinking ...
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Lost hard drive space to Boot Camp
Boot Camp caused ~200 GB of my 750 GB HD to disappear and I cannot re(un)-partition it through Disk Utility and when I try to reformat the storage through the terminal using:
diskutil cs resizeVolume
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I erased the partition where Windows 10 was previously installed. How can I merge it with my OS X partition?
So I started up Disk Utility and erased my BOOTCAMP partition and set the format to OS X Extended (Journaled).
This is how my partitions look like now:
As you can see, I have a BOOTCAMP partition (...
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Messed up 1TB Fusion Drive Partitions (on iMac 5K)
Alright, so I did something stupid today, and I really need some help right now…
So kinda like the situation in this post I think I messed up the Fusion Drive on my 1TB iMac (with BootCamp), I messed ...
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How to make Macintosh HD size the same as SSD
So today, I tried dual-booting my late 2013 rMBP on El Capitan with Windows 10. I got to the step within Bootcamp where it was partitioning my SSD, and I went ahead and played a game of Super Smash. ...
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Reclaim SSD space from deleted partition
I have a very similar problem to one that was answered here, but I don't know how to apply the answer to my mac.
MacBook Pro 15", Late 2013, 2.3GHz/16GB/512GB, Yosemite 10.10.3
I was attempting to ...
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Restoring Fusion Drive after error on partition erase
I think I'm lost and need some help with my Fusion Drive.
I have new iMac Retina 5k with 3TB Fusion Drive and preinstalled Yosemite.
Things I did so far:
I was working on my iMac and had ...
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Reclaim disk space from old Windows partition?
How do I reclaim the disk space used by my former Windows partition?
Clear free space in Disk Utility
So I recently removed Windows 7 from my iMac, but Bootcamp didn't let me do it. I used Disk ...
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How to fix the error: "This disk doesn’t contain an EFI system partition"?
I get the following error and cannot start Bootcamp after accidentally deleting the EFI-partition of my main drive.
This disk doesn’t contain an EFI system partition.
If you want to start up your ...
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Booted to Windows how do I enable access to a Mac CoreStorage volume?
I've installed Windows 8.1 with the Boot Camp Assistant on a solid state drive with a CoreStorage volume. Booted to Windows I can't see the files on my Mac volume anymore.
I'm confused since this is ...
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How do I regain unaccessible free space after a failed Boot Camp install on a non-Fusion drive?
Firstly - I know this has been answered, but I am hoping for a more broken down answer, as I am not quite so technically minded, but I can follow instructions!
So in summary I have tried to install ...
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Can't delete partitions after attempting BOOTCAMP on my iMac 5k
I recently tried to install a bootcamp instance of Win 7. The install failed for some reason. This left me with a partition that I can not access via Disk Utility
If you notice..the +- can not be ...
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Clear free space in Disk Utility
So I recently removed Windows 7 from my iMac, but Bootcamp didn't let me do it. I used Disk Utility instead. The old Windows 7 partition now shows up as free space. I want to reinstall Windows 7 again ...
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Restore Macintosh HD to its original partition configuration
I seem to have badly botched a Boot Camp installation of Windows 8.1. I used Boot Camp Assistant to create a 200 GB BOOTCAMP partition on my 1 TB Fusion Drive. I then rebooted and failed to install ...
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Is it possible to have multiple filevault2-activated partitions on one disk?
What I would like to have: A disk with the following systems on it:
OS X 10.8 (FV2-encrypted)
OS X 10.9 (FV2-encrypted)
Windows 7
When I try to start FV2-encryption on my secondary partition, OS X ...
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