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Q: More boot camp problems new 5k imac 3 tera fusion drive

MMy bto 5k shipped from China sunday night and arrived in Maine this morning.... Amazing when you think about it for a bto

iinstallation and set up we're going fine and I started up boot camp assistant to create  a temp boot camp while I wait for my thunder bay 4 box to take the drives for my old Mac pro when boot camp will have a1 tera SSD all to itself....

so carved off a 700 gig boot camp partition which the assistant formatted fat I then plugged is the lighting to FW adapter in a LaCie 2 tera fw 800 drive to act as a bridge to my LaCie DVD burner which uses the old fw400 cables and inserted my new shrink wrap win 8.1 retail 64 DVD and up comes the win 8 install in very tiny type in a tiny window which got a bit of a laugh out of me.

 

And I go through it to the point of selecting that boot camp partition and then said it could not use a fat partition and I should reformat it from the win 8.1 installer which I did and then it said it could not use and unknown partition so I said great and booted back to 10-10 and the boot camp tool to put things back and it said it could not I then went to disk tools and it also said the  3tera fusion could not be either reformatted or put back to a single partition I was on with tech support where I went up through 4 levels of support due to the 5k bto which most had no knowledge of. We tried the optioncommand r to get to DT and the same problem as did going to reinstall from the net which after a 30 min down load could not reformat either it is now kicked to Cupertino with a call back tomorrow

 

( At this point all I want to do is put the computer back in the condition it was in when i started with a plain Yosemite on an unpartitioned 3 tera fusion... Then deal with boot camp when it can have its own drive)

am betting it will take a Unix comand line to reformat but be aware there may be boot camp issues with my configuration

and  any help here will be great fully received

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 21, 2014 4:04 PM

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  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 22, 2014 9:42 AM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 22, 2014 9:42 AM in response to Windshadow99

    the abootcamp thumb drive is the one created buy the bootcamp install helper

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 22, 2014 9:48 AM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 22, 2014 9:48 AM in response to Windshadow99

    As long as your happy with the Free Space size, we can go to the next step.

     

    This step creates a new CS volume using the whole SSD and the 2.4TB HDD Part1.

     

    diskutil cs create OSX-FusionLVG disk0s2 disk1s2

     

    Once complete, verify that these two show when diskutil cs list is complete. The order is important, because the first disk should be your SSD. This will generate a new UUID (long string). Please post the output of diskutil cs list.

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 22, 2014 9:54 AM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 22, 2014 9:54 AM in response to Loner T

    -bash-3.2# diskutil cs create OSX-FusionLVG disk0s2 disk1s2

    Started CoreStorage operation

    Unmounting disk0s2

    Touching partition type on disk0s2

    Adding disk0s2 to Logical Volume Group

    Unmounting disk1s2

    Touching partition type on disk1s2

    Adding disk1s2 to Logical Volume Group

    Creating Core Storage Logical Volume Group

    Switching disk0s2 to Core Storage

    Switching disk1s2 to Core Storage

    Waiting for Logical Volume Group to appear

    Discovered new Logical Volume Group "153ED13B-3675-40D1-9469-2E1A3B4167EC"

    Core Storage LVG UUID: 153ED13B-3675-40D1-9469-2E1A3B4167EC

    Finished CoreStorage operation

    -bash-3.2# diskutil cs list

    CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

    |

    +-- Logical Volume Group 153ED13B-3675-40D1-9469-2E1A3B4167EC

        =========================================================

        Name:         OSX-FusionLVG

        Status:       Online

        Size:         2520988852224 B (2.5 TB)

        Free Space:   2515133595648 B (2.5 TB)

        |

        +-< Physical Volume E5B22231-71E8-49A0-B823-C9CDD51DBB36

        |   ----------------------------------------------------

        |   Index:    0

        |   Disk:     disk0s2

        |   Status:   Online

        |   Size:     120988852224 B (121.0 GB)

        |

        +-< Physical Volume 4AA11193-404F-4A0B-A0BF-8815703F35F1

            ----------------------------------------------------

            Index:    1

            Disk:     disk1s2

            Status:   Online

            Size:     2400000000000 B (2.4 TB)

    -bash-3.2#

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 22, 2014 10:10 AM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 22, 2014 10:10 AM in response to Windshadow99

    Excellent work so far W.

     

    The next step creates a volume and allocates 100% to the Macintosh HD volume (2.4TB).

     

    diskutil coreStorage createVolume 153ED13B-3675-40D1-9469-2E1A3B4167EC jhfs+ "Macintosh HD" 100%

     

    Once you have the volume, exit out of terminal and install Yosemite and use "Macintosh HD" as the destination.

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 22, 2014 10:15 AM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 22, 2014 10:15 AM in response to Loner T

    ok done and now the instal option from this on line recovery system should take about 30 min on my cable modem

     

    -bash-3.2# diskutil coreStorage createVolume 153ED13B-3675-40D1-9469-2E1A3B4167EC jhfs+ "Macintosh HD" 100%

    The Core Storage Logical Volume Group UUID is 153ED13B-3675-40D1-9469-2E1A3B4167EC

    Started CoreStorage operation

    Waiting for Logical Volume to appear

    Formatting file system for Logical Volume

    Initialized /dev/rdisk3 as a 2 TB case-insensitive HFS Plus volume with a 196608k journal

    Mounting disk

    Core Storage LV UUID: 2F8B1E82-11CC-4B2F-9AE8-A03854BF4E1E

    Core Storage disk: disk3

    Finished CoreStorage operation

    -bash-3.2#

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 22, 2014 10:19 AM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 22, 2014 10:19 AM in response to Windshadow99

    Once Yosemite is installed, please reboot and verify that it will work correctly. Please verify the output of diskutil cs list and ensure it has not changed in anyway from what you posted earlier, except used up space, which will be you Yosemite OS.

     

    Next, after that, we will install W8.1 using EFI on the 600GB HDD partition. You are almost there.

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 22, 2014 10:19 AM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 22, 2014 10:19 AM in response to Windshadow99

    CCan I recover the new computer setup system that launche when I turned the computer on for the first time? It was very convenient

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 22, 2014 10:21 AM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 22, 2014 10:21 AM in response to Windshadow99

    You can use Yosemite Recovery using Command+R or Internet Recovery using Command+Opt+R. Once Yosemite is installed, I would highly recommend a Time Machine backup for future baseline recovery, on an external disk, if possible.

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 22, 2014 10:28 AM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 22, 2014 10:28 AM in response to Loner T

    ok many may thanks  it is doing the Internet recovery and 25 min remaining

     

    time for lunch and I will do as you say and give a Tm backup to the 2 tera external

     

     

     

    I Sure do wonder what caused all this problem in the first place

  • by Loner T,Solvedanswer

    Loner T Loner T Oct 22, 2014 10:39 AM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 22, 2014 10:39 AM in response to Windshadow99

    Windshadow99 wrote:

     

    I Sure do wonder what caused all this problem in the first place

    In one word - "Yosemite".

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 22, 2014 11:16 AM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 22, 2014 11:16 AM in response to Loner T

    Love your sense of humor.

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 22, 2014 12:13 PM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 22, 2014 12:13 PM in response to Loner T

    IIt seemed to fit

    asside from the new user setup assistant not accepting my wifi password (I ran an Ethernet cable to the router.) double checked on other stuff by dropping and reconnecting to wifi that nothing is wrong something to look at later I guess

     

     

    ready to to move on

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 22, 2014 12:16 PM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 22, 2014 12:16 PM in response to Windshadow99

    Is OSX  running as you want it? If yes, run Bootcamp Assistant and use the W8.1 DVD to create the USB+DVD/ISO.

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 22, 2014 12:34 PM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 22, 2014 12:34 PM in response to Loner T

    WWe still need BA huh I thought i just would option boot to the efi this time so we need to burn an ISO? I hope this burner still works

     

    it says an ISO image downloaded from Microsoft I have nice new 8.1 64 retail version DVDs in the drive now

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 22, 2014 12:39 PM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 22, 2014 12:39 PM in response to Windshadow99

    Not really. You can use the DVD to directly boot from, as long as you do not have KVM issues. If you want to please try that first. If you have KVM issues, then use the USB to install W8.1 in the Free Space, nowhere else.

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