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    BootCamp Partition Corrupt?

    Good Evening, I'm running the latest Public Beta of Mojave, but the issue described below has been present/not fixed on the last few releases. I've spent hours scouring the web regarding my issue and I've given up and I'm now seeking assistance :) Recently I went to boot into Windows (Windows...
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    Bootcamp help: windows partition gone

    Ok I know there are many similar posts and I did read them. My situation is quite unique so I have to start a new thread. Thank you in advance. I have a 2017 iMac w/ 1t fusion drive. I needed Windows and installed Bootcamp, assigning 140G. Windows booted successfully. When I wanted to boot back...
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    Moving Entire Windows Partition to Another Mac

    I have Windows 7 installed via Boot Camp on my MacBook 4,1 which still runs Lion. I recently purchased a MacBook Pro 15" (Mid 2010) which runs High Sierra. I'd like to transfer my Windows partition (just as it is) from my MacBook 4,1 to my new MacBook Pro. I am not looking to re-install...
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    Mac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2014) Fusion Drive Partition Problems after Bootcamp removal.

    Hi, Sorry if this kind of problem is repeated elsewhere. I'll start at the top for context: Following a botched installation of Bitdefender, my Bootcamp partition decided it wasn't going to boot any more. When safe mode etc wouldn't play ball I decided to remove the partition with bootcamp...
    • SeanusJ
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    • bootcamp fix fusion drive partition problem
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: iMac
  5. memsrw

    Bootcamp partition failed, 2 apple corestorage

    I ran bootcamp assistant partitioning the disk into 2 tb for windows and 1 tb for macos, but it crashed during the partitioning stage leaving me with 1 tb of usable space. I tried deleting the partition in Disk Utility but it wouldn't let me saying that, "You can not remove the first volume on...
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    Delete or Merge a partition

    Hi, I had a bootcamp partition but in some way it got transformed to another kind of partition and now all I want is to delete every partition except the main one (Which runs MacOS). As my MacBook is new, I don't have a lot of stuff in it. I just want to merge all the other partitions into the...
    • idomeneas
    • Thread
    • delete macbook pro macos merge partition
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
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    GParted Help!

    I dont know if im in right forum rn! If no im sorry,if yes then: Hi masters, Last week i got the famouse question mark folder, So i tried to format my ssd,but i cant verify or repair or even mount the drive So i booted on GParted live usb, I got an error i need to create new partition table (as...
  8. ourcore

    Unable to remove Windows Boot Camp partition

    About a year ago, I installed Windows 10 via Boot Camp, which I now want to remove, but it doesn't seem to be done causing issues... When I go into the Boot Camp assistant, I get this message: My Disk Utility looks like this: diskutil list gives me: /dev/disk0 (internal): #...
    • ourcore
    • Thread
    • boot camp partition windows
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: macOS
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    Unable to delete partition

    I tried to reset pram and my mac boots into windows, apparently there is a windows recovery file on a partition that i can’t remove. please help. 2011 mbp
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    formatting/partitioning hard drive

    hi I have a segate expansion portable hard drive 4TB, which I need formatted into MS-DOS(FAT) I have tried formatting but it is saying I only have 1.8TB available (should be 4TB), I think it may have a partition? (see image) is it possible to have one 4TB partition? if not how do I make...
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    FileVault 2 Boot Camp Partition

    I have seen several different answers to this question and so I am a bit confused. If I enable Filevault 2 upon setup of my 2016 Macbook pro and THEN create a windows partition for boot camp, is the windows partition still covered by FileVault 2? If someone was, for example to use...
  12. Dazzlepants

    macOS won’t load

    My SSD drive from my old MacBook Pro 2012 has been installed into a new MacBook Pro (also 2012). The SSD was partitioned between windows and macOS but only windows will load. I can see both in disk utility but the main partition of macOS is grayed out and it says it’s unmounted. I want to avoid...
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    Can not format drive with GUID

    I want to delete my external 1TB USB Drive and format it with "Mac OS Extended (journaled)" and GUID Partition Scheme but the button for partitioning the drive is greyed out and non clickable. I can delete the Drive but the option to choose the Partition Scheme is not there and it automatically...
    • meilon24
    • Thread
    • disk utility drive external drive guid partition partition usb
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: macOS
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    Help: Could not mount disk1s2 after erase

    Hey, I'm new to this forum and, don't know much about Mac. I have a Macbook Pro mid 2012 edition. I recently Installed a used SSD (Samsung Evo 850 250gb) in place of my HD, and took out the optical drive and placed my HD there instead. I have a USB to boot High Sierra on the new SSD, which...
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    How would I increase the bootcamp partition size?

    When I installed Windows 7 Pro on my MacBook Pro 15" 2014 I allocated about 75 gigabytes to Windows. When I finished installing Windows and most of my other programs I realized that I should've increased the partition size. How would I increase the partition size? I've looked this up before and...
  16. silentearth

    partition troubles

    Hello all, I’m looking for assistance with my iMac that I’ve been trying to get ready to list on the market, however I tried accessing Disc Utility from the boot menu with a wireless Windows keyboard (holding down the Alt key which is equivalent to the option key on the Apple keyboards) but it...
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    Adding Fat32 partition to startup volume

    Hi everyody, I am currently in the process of creating a 30gb Fat32 partition on my macbook pro. And it has been running for two hours already, which is making me quite anxious, as the screen is frozen at the same time. The mouse cursor can still be moved, however everything else is frozen...
  18. Tigerkkk

    Cannot boot into osx after partitioning in macos

    So I have Ubuntu and high sierra working fine, but yesterday I decided to expand the ubuntu disk space. So I free up space in the macos by deleting the application and then doing a partition(this is how I remember allocating space for ubuntu when I installed it). The partition was done in osx...
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    Accidentally deleted my Macs internal harddrive!!! HELP!!

    So I was trying to install Windows 10 via Bootcamp on my MacBook Pro (2011). I made a new partition in Disk Utility and called it BOOTCAMP (For my Windows) As I'm planning to use Windows a lot from now on, I decided to make it take up a lot of the space. I resized the partition where my OSX High...
    • SpyroTheSavage
    • Thread
    • delete deleted disk utility free space hard drive macbook pro (13" early 2011) partition partition macbook pro mac os recover recovery
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  20. Bryancap77

    I deleted a partition from my HDD

    I can’t stream on my Mac in the way I want, so I used Mac’s boot camp to download Windows. I couldn’t use boot camp to create a partition (it kept failing during the partition process) so I created a partition manually in the HDD, and then after loading the Windows ISO, it fails. I then deleted...
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