Questions tagged [disk-utility]
Apple's built-in disk management utility for the mac. Erases, formats, and restores volumes and drives.
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Can't see HD in disk utility in recovery mode, but can in OS
I'm pretty new to Macs. I got an iMac Pro in 2017 (grey one) and about 6 months ago it started giving me occasional folder flashing icon on startup.
It also started occasionally forgetting my ...
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Ejecting external SSD or sparsebundle disk image doesn't complete (macOS 10.14.x)
I use an external SSD for Time Machine. The SATA SSD sits in a dock which is connected via USB3. The SSD mounts correctly and is used by Time Machine correctly. If I eject the SSD from Finder (by ...
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8T external HDD failing to format
Disk Utility is failing to format an 8T external hard drive on my iMac.
I keep getting an error stating Unable to write to the last block of the device: (see below):
How might I troubleshoot this?
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Can't resize partition [duplicate]
My Disk Utility is showing me some Weird Stuff.
My current startup partition is showing as 155 GB, with (I was shocked to discover) 344 GB of unpartitioned free space:
I can try to resize the first ...
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I cannot get out of recovery mode (OS X Utilities) by resetting or reinstalling the OS
I bought a used iMac and when I turn it on I am shown the OS X Utilities screen. I would like to install the operating system but I cannot do so.
I have tried everything suggested on other questions ...
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if external disk found by terminal applescript
Hey so MacBooks have this nasty habit of not mounting external disks when plugged in before... reference link
the solution is quite simple with terminal eject the disk and the manually unplug replug ...
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Cannot Erase a 64Gb exFat SD Card with Disk Utility | OS Mojave
I've got a microSD card in an SD adaptor that I accidentally left in during the Bootcamp installation and now it is formatted as exFat rather than Fat-32. I tried erasing it and changing the format, ...
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Accidentally overwrote encrypted external drive (Mac OS)
So I was rushed (and being careless) and accidentally copied about 80 MB of a Raspberry PI image (SD card formatted extfs) over my external USB drive (4TB) that was formatted and encrypted (using Disk ...
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Skipping disk check with diskutil resize?
When running the diskutil resize command, is it possible to skip the disk verification step?
While I realise this ordinarily a good idea to run, I'm currently struggling against an apparently ...
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Disk utility has no option to expand HFS+ volume?
I'm trying to expand my HFS+ volume (selected in picture) to use adjacent space, but there is no option to do it in disk utility (!)
I just resized my APFS partition in order to create the free space,...
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Interpreting various First Aid error messages
Can someone provide documentation or their own knowledge to interpret the below messages? I've researched this diligently but no post has the same combination of messages that I have. There are 5 ...
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Cannot mount external drives or flash drives
I tried multiple file systems and multiple devices, none of them will mount. I also tried looking for fsck (not running), resetting the NVRAM (and restarting the Mac of course) and it still doesn't ...
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Transfer time machine backups from unmountable HDD
I am attempting to access time machine backups on an external hard drive that I have, and transfer them over to a new HDD. Both drives are 2TB. The drive with the time machine backups will not mount, ...
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After deleting kali linux partition, macOS partition startup Volume type FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF [duplicate]
First of all I know this problem and similar problems have been solved before, but I had tried the solutions from the other posts and I didn’t have luck.
I know klanomath has a lot of experience and ...
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How to resize my partitions?
I have 3 partitions on my hard drive right now, and none of them are able to be resized (the apply button is greyed out when trying to partition).
I also feel like my drives are messed up in some way ...
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(Mistakenly) Deleted all partitions except for disk0s2, can't mount or repartition
First of all, I apologize that I cannot remember exactly what version of Mac OS I am running, but I am 99% sure it's Yosemite.
I recently tried to delete a second partition I had been using for a ...
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Erased both partitions of my hard drive and want to merge them. They show up as two different disks so I cant choose the partition option
External hard drive partitions showing as 2 different disks, can't merge or repartition. I have erased both and want to merge into one.
EDIT: I have Reformatted both partitions to Mac OS Extended (...
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Merging APFS Containers using the Disk Utility Application
I recently deleted my dual boot from my mac, but I am now left with two partitions that I can't figure out how to merge. I would like it to be normal again with just one container: Macintosh HD. I'm ...
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My 2TB external drive shows up as 2 separate drives, and I want to merge them together
I have a Seagate Backup Plus 2TB external HD, and it shows up as 2 separate external drives in Disk Utility, rather than 1 external device with 2 partitions.
I want to merge these so I just have 1 ...
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How to resize main partition to full available physical space?
I had two partitions:
Machintosh HD with 250 GB space
BOOTCAMP with 750GB space
Later my Machintosh HD had a problem where it went into a boot loop. So to recover, I went into recovery, erased the ...
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I am trying to clone a 2TB drive that has mac os x 10.6.8 onto a smaller drive but dont know what I am doing
I have a Mac Pro that I cant install an OS onto at the moment because I do not have snow leopard. I do have a bootable 2TB Western Digital drive that comes from an identical Mac Pro that has 10.6.8 ...
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APFS Container is corrupt beyond what I can find online - but Data Recovery software finds my things just fine?
I've followed guide after guide and nobody on the Internet has gotten errors as simple as I have. I've managed to use gdisk to change the partition type to the APFS it is meant to be, but it still won'...
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Mac Pro install disk keeps ejecting itself
I am not that savvy with Macintosh computers so I can't figure out why the install disk keeps ejecting when I attempt to boot from disk by holding down the "C" button or the option button.
It is not ...
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How do i delete my partitions on my mac? [duplicate]
I have been unable to get rid of all the partitions in my drive, they can't be seen inside of my disk utility and i wondered if anyone could help me.
Diskutil list returns:
/dev/disk0 (internal):
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diskutil list shows 20 disk partitions, I only know 3, what are the rest?
Following the post FFFFFFFF problem with hybrid partitioned drive, not able to fix with the guide in other topics, diskutil list gives me the following big list of disk partitions, what are the /dev/...
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Cannot delete or merge old boot camp partition in High Sierra
So i've battled with this for quite some time, look up various topics with various solutions, however i have yet to succeed with merging my partitions into one. I had previously installed windows 10 ...
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Lacie External Hardrive doesn't show up on Mac or in Disk utility
My lacie hard drive was making some strange clicking noises when I put it in my mac. I have also tried this in a PC. It now is just not showing up in the devices and also when I try to access it in ...
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FFFFFFFF problem with hybrid partitioned drive, not able to fix with the guide in other topics
Like many other uses who reported the same problem, I tried to install and delete Ubuntu in my 13' mid-2014 MBP, messed up and got FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFF partition, tried to follow the solutions ...
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Can not erase my Mac OS X base system
My Mac won’t boot up it makes the noise but just has a grey screen. When i utility boot the system it does not work and when I internet boot to disc utility it won’t allow me to erase the Mac OS X ...
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Enlarge APFS container with free space
The container scheme of my hard drive is the following
I have more or less 87 GB free, that are not contained in this list.
I have removed the container of size 87 GB with the command
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mac OS Installer lingers after failed Mojave 10.14.3 to 10.14.4 update
I've worked this problem w Apple Mac L2 across two phone calls lasting a total of 5 hours and escalation to L3 without a possible resolution, hence opening up my search to the world.
My ask:
What ...
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Older Mac (2012) Fails to Boot, any ideas?
Guys I'm running out of steam here... how do I copy files from a hard drive in recovery mode to an external hard drive on an older mac.
First few things I did:
boot into recovery mode and run the ...
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Recover data with file structure HFS+ on Mojave
I'm desperate and trying almost everything. That's what happened. I was having problem with Time Machine. One file was not letting time machine finish the backup. But to discover this took me a while. ...
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Completely reset Mojave disk
I’ve got a Mojave installation with an APFS drive. I’ve installed and uninstalled Boot Camp partitions several times over the years, and somehow things have gotten out of sync. I can now see the 500GB ...
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Other Volumes issue
I have no idea what previous MacBook Pro owner did, but here is my disk:
I've got it with Mojava already and I think it's happened on OS update. Something like wrongly repaired of different file ...
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Time Machine partition won't mount
I have an external drive with two partitions, the first of which I use for Time Machine backups. The other day I got a message telling me that my drive had been unplugged without being ejected first (...
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Lost space after removing bootcamp
So I removed bootcamp and now there is a partition called "free space" that I can't remove.
Here is my output from diskutil list:
Here is the screenshot from disk utility showing the partitions:
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New SSD Fitted but Disk Utility Still Showing Old Disk
My 2013 Mac Mini with 1 TB Fusion drive was starting to run really slowly. I got a brand new 1 TB SSD fitted and am trying to restore from Time Machine, now. The restore can see the Time Machine ...
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Does Apple's Disk Utility 'Restore' function make a 'byte for byte' clone?
I've used Apple's Disk Utility to 'restore' a drive with accidentally deleted files. I need to know if this is an exact byte-for-byte clone that I can scan for deleted files on.
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Bootcamp not enough space [duplicate]
I am trying to install Windows using bootcamp in my Mac (Mojave 10.14.3).
However, bootcamp tells me that I do not have enough disk space while in fact I have.
I haven't got any local snapshots.
In ...
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Can't format drive to APFS on older machine prior to 10.13 install
I have a Mid-2012 15" MacBook Pro that I've just put a new SSD into.
I didn't format the SSD prior to putting it into the computer, my plan was to boot into "recovery mode" (not sure of Apple's term ...
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Why has my hard drive started spinning-up each time I eject it?
When I eject the hard drive, the disk starts to slow down but then the disk starts spinning at full speed about a second later. The hard drive is not mounted but it is still spinning. I’m afraid to ...
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unlock macOS encrypted Volume on linux
How can i unlock a Partition that has been created and encrypted using Apples Disk Utility on a linux machine?
There are 2 formats one can encrypt Volumes with Disk Utility :
CoreStorage encrypted ...
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Partition Type: FFFFFFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFF-FFFFFFFFFFFF no backup [duplicate]
trying to delete a disk partition, the disks utility has given an error and now the Macintosh HD volume was not in APFS.
But of course, being different, does not match anything with mine. It also ...
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Partition table error in external ARECA RAID
Thanks for trying to help me fix this problem.
I have been having trouble with my external RAID, the error message that I got was that I have a partition table error. The RAID contains six 4 TB hard ...
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Cannot install Mac OS X Lion due to disk errors
I’m trying to install Mac OS X Lion after accidentally having erased my disk in order to reboot my iMac, which I did without backing it up. On a separate USB drive, I formatted and installed a Lion ...
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Blocking Disk Utility? [duplicate]
I'm looking for a way to prevent someone from creating a new partition on my hard drive in order to get around restrictions I've set. I've already tried setting an administrator account to no luck. ...
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Disk Utility First Aid Failed: fsroot tree invalid
I tried to run Disk Utility in my iMac. It said that:
fsroot tree is invalid
How to resolve this issue? Is my HDD going to die?
UPDATE: Already tried /sbin/fsck -fy in Single-user mode. Same ...
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I can't delete a partition I created on my hard drive
The reason I have came here to post a question is because it seems that looking for the answer doesn't work. After attempting (and failing) to install bootcamp, my disk has for some reason been ...
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Macbook Pro mid-2012 Disk Utility First Aid Results Interpretation Help
My MacBook pro mid-2012 has been acting a little odd lately (freezing, losing track of files). I've run first aid in disk utility multiple times, but always get the same notes which suggests it doesn'...
