moghees007

Q: can't install windows on my mac. help!

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Everytime i try to install Windows it shows this window, when i click ok, then on the main window behind it doesn't select install Windows.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Sep 15, 2015 11:21 PM

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  • by Loner T,Helpful

    Loner T Loner T Sep 19, 2015 10:54 AM in response to moghees007
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    Sep 19, 2015 10:54 AM in response to moghees007

    1. You still have FV2 enabled. The following line shows...

    Encryption Type:         AES-XTS

     

    OS X Yosemite: Turn off FileVault encryption

     

    2. Can you post the output of diskutil list?

  • by moghees007,

    moghees007 moghees007 Sep 18, 2015 10:52 PM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 18, 2015 10:52 PM in response to Loner T

    Image 2015-09-19 at 11.18.13 am.pngits turned off as you can see.

  • by moghees007,

    moghees007 moghees007 Sep 18, 2015 10:57 PM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 18, 2015 10:57 PM in response to Loner T

    mogheess-MacBook-Pro:~ mogheesahmad$ diskutil list

    /dev/disk0

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            249.6 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Sep 19, 2015 6:51 AM in response to moghees007
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    Sep 19, 2015 6:51 AM in response to moghees007

    Can you post the current status from diskutil cs list?

  • by moghees007,

    moghees007 moghees007 Sep 19, 2015 6:54 AM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 19, 2015 6:54 AM in response to Loner T

    mogheess-MacBook-Pro:~ mogheesahmad$ diskutil cs list

    No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

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  • by Loner T,Solvedanswer

    Loner T Loner T Sep 19, 2015 10:53 AM in response to moghees007
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    Sep 19, 2015 10:53 AM in response to moghees007

    In the previous display, you had output from diskutil cs list command, which is not there now. Disabling FV2 is done in the background. Till it completes, we cannot do next steps.

     

    The following steps merge Recovery HD into OS X which means you lose the ability to locally recover your Mac. This is temporary. To get Recovery HD back, you will need to re-install OS X after we have got all the disk space added back to your OS X partition.

     

    1. Merge disk0s2 and disk0s3 - diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ "Macintosh HD" disk0s2 disk0s3. The order of the disks is critical, otherwise you will loss OS completely.

    2. If you are uncomfortable with step 1, create a new backup using Time Machine. There is an alternative method using Time Machine, but it usually takes longer.

    3. Once Step 1 is complete, go into Disk Utility and drag the bottom right corner as far as it will go. You are absorbing the Free Space into OS X at this point.

    4. Once you verify from diskutil list that you have all the disk space, boot into Internet Recovery (Command+Opt+R - you must see a spinning globe). Please be aware that Internet Recovery installs the OS X version that shipped with your Mac, not the version you currently may have. Please see OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support . Install OS X and use AppStore to upgrade your Apple applications. If you have any third-party applications they should remain intact. Non-OS files are not modified.

  • by moghees007,

    moghees007 moghees007 Sep 19, 2015 9:50 AM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 19, 2015 9:50 AM in response to Loner T

    1. Merge disk0s2 and disk0s3 - diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ "Macintosh HD" disk0s2 disk0s3.

     

    kindly explain it a bit .....

    how to do it....?

    and how would i know if FV2 disabling is done ?

  • by moghees007,

    moghees007 moghees007 Sep 19, 2015 10:57 AM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 19, 2015 10:57 AM in response to Loner T

    i did 1st step and when i checked disk utility 3 step was not required.

    i restarted my mac its working fine... so do i need to go for 4th step ? or should i not go for it ..?

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Sep 19, 2015 11:57 AM in response to moghees007
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    Sep 19, 2015 11:57 AM in response to moghees007

    Yes, you need to run step 4 so you have a local Recovery HD. Please post diskutil list and the GPT command output for the record.

  • by moghees007,

    moghees007 moghees007 Sep 19, 2015 1:40 PM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 19, 2015 1:40 PM in response to Loner T

    done with internet repair... now posting diskutil list

     

    mogheess-MacBook-Pro:~ mogheesahmad$ diskutil list

    /dev/disk0

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            499.8 GB   disk0s2

     

     

     

    what is GPT .... "sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0" this one ?

  • by moghees007,

    moghees007 moghees007 Sep 19, 2015 2:19 PM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 19, 2015 2:19 PM in response to Loner T

    mogheess-MacBook-Pro:~ mogheesahmad$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

    Password:

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167

          start       size  index  contents

              0          1         PMBR

              1          1         Pri GPT header

              2         32         Pri GPT table

             34          6        

             40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

         409640  976101344      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      976510984     262151        

      976773135         32         Sec GPT table

      976773167          1         Sec GPT header

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Sep 19, 2015 2:25 PM in response to moghees007
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    Sep 19, 2015 2:25 PM in response to moghees007

    Notice, you do not have Recovery HD. If you re-install OS X using Internet Recovery you will get the version originally shipped with your Mac.

  • by moghees007,

    moghees007 moghees007 Sep 19, 2015 2:34 PM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 19, 2015 2:34 PM in response to Loner T

    i booted into  internet recovery, as u told  "boot into Internet Recovery (Command+Opt+R - you must see a spinning globe)" and it took around 1 hr or so. after that it automatically went to OS X recovery, i clicked on install OS X, but i showed that you cannot install Mavericks as you are using newer version OS.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Sep 19, 2015 2:57 PM in response to moghees007
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    Sep 19, 2015 2:57 PM in response to moghees007

    Do you still have your Yosemite OS X installer? If not, then you can download it by using Option+Download, provided you have purchased it in the past at some point in time. You can re-install Yosemite and get your Recovery HD back.

  • by moghees007,

    moghees007 moghees007 Sep 20, 2015 5:04 PM in response to Loner T
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    Sep 20, 2015 5:04 PM in response to Loner T

    mogheess-MacBook-Pro:~ mogheesahmad$ diskutil list

    /dev/disk0

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         499.2 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

    /dev/disk1

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD           *498.9 GB   disk1

                                     Logical Volume on disk0s2

                                     36E99E31-65B6-49EA-9A9B-130989D05A35

                                     Unencrypted

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