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  1. xxxian

    I accidentally put Macintosh HD into...

    hey.. i accidentally put Macintosh HD into container disk 1. first of all, i just wanted to have windows partition on my macbook and something went wrong and i had to remove that windows bootcamp partition so i erased it and progress of doing it i accidently put the main Mac disk into some APFS...
  2. blazeb123

    Trying to partition a 2TB flashrive to use Time Machine on but having failures

    I have tried watching online tutorials on how to use a USB flashdrive to use as a backup and or storage space for my macbook pro. I am getting the following error after i have already erased and formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) Running operation 1 of 1: Add “Backup” by splitting...
    • blazeb123
    • Thread
    • partition partition macbook pro mac os time machine
    • Replies: 9
    • Forum: MacBook Pro
  3. tscoke

    External HD shows up as multiple devices

    I have a 1TB external Toshiba HD that I want to reformat into a clean, single partition. This drive was previously used with the now defunct Transporter Sync. When I connect the drive to my Macbook Air running High Sierra it shows up as four separate volumes. I cant' figure out how to remove...
    • tscoke
    • Thread
    • external hard drive partition reformatting
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: macOS
  4. I

    Can't delete/merge partitions after failed bootcamp Installation

    Hi guys, So basically I partitioned my harddrive to install Windows 10 via bootcamp but I ran into a problem. It did not install correctly. Now I can’t merge my partitions back together so I can start again. The normal way of doing this is by either deleting the bootcamp partition with...
  5. odom117

    MBP Mid 2012 - Dual SSD's -Windows 10 & Mac OS?

    Need some helping making sure I can do this... I currently have a mid-2012 MBP non retina. I've upgraded RAM to 8 GB, taken out my disk drive and replaced it with an SSD. I'm running Mac OS on the SSD. My original drive was partitioned with windows 10 running on only 100 GB. Once I installed...
  6. chiguimania

    Partitions being stuck on Recovery HD

    Hi! I have a problem, every time I erase a partition from my main Hard Drive using Disk Utility it deletes it but the space left is being stored on the Recovery HD. Now I have a Recovery partition size of 50 GB. This happens every time I erase a partition. I know how to restore the Recovery HD...
  7. ayubsulong

    How to create a new internal disk?

    Updated my mac with High Sierra yesterday, with success. Since I am new with mac OS and partition, I created one small (22GB) and one big partition (100GB). After a painstaking HS installation (on smaller partition of internal drive), I made a mistake of erasing my big partition one after copied...
  8. L

    With APFS, will old HFS+ external drives need to be replaced?

    I'm thrilled at the idea of Apple's new file system. More stability? Faster? Better error protection? Yes please. As a video professional, under-the-hood improvements like these are way more interesting to me than the cosmetic and incremental updates of the last few versions of macOS. But quick...
  9. Q

    Assistance on setting up my Time Machine backup on my friend's MacBook

    Hello, I'm soon going on vacation and I'm planning to take an external hard drive, which contains my MacBook's Time Machine backup in it, but I won't take the MacBook itself with me. I will leave it back home so my brother (and business partner) can use it. For the next couple of months I will...
  10. F

    Unable to erase new external hard drive

    I just bought an external hard drive (Silicon Power Shockproof 1T drive) as a backup drive. I want to partition half of it for Time Machine and half of it as storage. I started up Disk Utility and the partition button is grayed out. After looking through the forums, I realized I had to erase...
  11. RedFlag

    Prohibitory sign after Sierra update, unmountable partition

    Hello. Yesterday I decided to update to Sierra from El Capitan on both the disks on my Macbook Pro (mid 2012); the update on my SSD went without a hitch so I decided I'd update my other disk, too. I downloaded the .app and the installation started as normal; once it got to the point where I'd...
    • RedFlag
    • Thread
    • boot error boot fail partition partitioning prohibitory sign sierra update problems
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: macOS Sierra (10.12)
  12. WhiteKnightMac

    Resolved Dualboot Mac/Linux

    Heading out to the Falklands next January and want to set-up a Dualboot system with MacOS Sierra and Linux distro KDE neon. The main OS will be KDE neon with the MacOS as a backup for incompatible software and AirPlay functionality. All media i.e. Videos and Music will be stored on an external...
  13. F

    iMac late 2013, Fusion Drive lost partition after BootCamp fail

    Hey everyone, so, I had to use my iMac for a project and I had to install Windows on it to run some software. Fired up bootcamp, downloaded all I had to, but once it restarted everything got stuck (I let it run for about 4 hours). So I had to reboot it, and that's what probably caused the...
  14. E

    What to do with my two SSD's

    This is my first time on the forum so greetings to you all! I have a late 2012 iMac who's 3TB HDD failed. I decided I'd rather have the speed than extra storage so I'm replacing it with a 1TB SSD. I will now have 128G flash + 1TB SSD. Seeing as how a fusion drive no longer makes sense, what...
    • edco
    • Thread
    • corestorage partition raid
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: macOS
  15. Z

    40GB missing on Harddrive?

    Hi. After an unfinished install of BootCamp Windows I seem to be missing 40GB of space on my hard drive, that I can't manage to recover... Pls see screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/54vj7ofz7r0g9yr/Screenshot%202017-05-26.png?dl=0 I have a 256GB drive but system HD is only 200GB. Anyone...
  16. F

    Missing "Free Space" partition on new external drive

    Hello Fine Smartypantses, So I'm finally getting around to updating my OS from 10.6.8, which I've bought a 2TB WD MyPassport for Mac drive. I was informed by the .dmg install that it wasn't compatitble with my current OS, so I formatted it to 750 GB for Time Machine, with the other 1.25 TB for...
    • frickkit
    • Thread
    • external drive free space partition wd passport
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: macOS
  17. S

    How to expand primary partition on external HD without delete other partitions?

    Hi! I have a Western Digital 4TB portable external hard disk which has 3 partitions set up like so: |<--- 500GB Time Machine --->|<--- 500GB Games --->|<--- 3TB Music/Photos/Videos --->| I would like to expand my Time Machine to 1TB, keep my Games partition to 500GB and decrease my...
  18. R

    Increasing Bootcamp partition size

    Hello, i'm trying to increase the size of my window 10 bootcamp. I'm using a macos sierra and i created a new partition in disk utility and restarted into my windows 10 and tried using minitool partition wizard to extend my windows 10 bootcamp partition but it gives me an error saying theres not...
  19. T

    "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer"

    I have 2 hard drives which I copy all my Final Cut Pro projects to. I use these drives with Windows 10 as well, so they are in exFAT. One of the drives now comes up with this message when I boot up: "The disk you inserted was not readable by this computer." It gives options to Initialize...
  20. K

    changed ssd name to yosemite during partition

    I partitioned my ssd into 2 and downloaded flash drive version of yosemite.I forgot to do the erase and guid part and just downloaded the usb drive and chose that one for start up.It works fine but now my SSD says yosemite core storage logical volume group,can anyone help me turn this around or...
    • kjob3022
    • Thread
    • hd name macbook partition ssd
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: macOS
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