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Switza_lend

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Nov 17, 2021
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hello I just installed Monterey on a new SSD and my volumes do not look right at all I have included 5 screenshots from the disk utility I had a similar problem when I last upgraded from high Sierra to Big sir. any help would be great this is my first time using a Mac and I know it shouldn't look like this.

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chabig

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I feel like there is more to the story. You just pointed the installer at an empty SSD and it did that?
 
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Switza_lend

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Nov 17, 2021
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I deleted catalina in disk utility ( Mac hd data and Mac hd/ and installed over network recovery a fresh install of Monterey. how do I fix it ? the system appears to be working fine .. but the partitioning is not correct. @Apple_Robert I believe I spoke to you last time I encountered a similar problem I was using another alias but I lost my login info to that account.. do you know how I can fix this ?
 

chabig

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Sep 6, 2002
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I think you have two choices.

1) If you think it’s working, leave it alone.

2) “Fix” it by reformatting the entire SSD and letting the installer put a fresh Monterey on it. Then restore your data.

Personally I’d lean toward option 2 because I’m not certain that I would be able to confirm correct operation. I do not believe there is an option to manually fix the layout.
 
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Switza_lend

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Nov 17, 2021
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what is apfs snap shot ?
is it normal the APFS volume "Mac" and APFS snapshot are both 15.7GB perhaps its a duplicate?
 

Mike Boreham

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Not sure what you think is wrong?

You have an extra Data volume. Have seen other reports of this but not sure what solution is.

What do you see if you click "show all devices" ( I think you are currently on show all volumes)

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Switza_lend

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Nov 17, 2021
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I just ran file fault and now its showing this .all volumes are "encrypted" besides disk1s1
which appears to be a duplicate of the one that's encrypted and it appears to have used the least amount of space
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Switza_lend

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Nov 17, 2021
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Not sure what you think is wrong?

You have an extra Data volume. Have seen other reports of this but not sure what solution is.

What do you see if you click "show all devices" ( I think you are currently on show all volumes)

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Should I delete the disk1s1 Mac data ?
I just did what you said and uploaded a screen shot(S) does that look normal ?
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Quackers

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I found I had 2 data volumes at one time but that was because I had mistakenly deleted only the MacintoshHD volume and not the data volume from an existing setup (I was doing a fresh install).
Some of my data was in one volume and some was in the other :) but both of my data volumes were of significant size.
I just wiped the drive completely and did a fresh install in the normal way and my disc became normal again.
 
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