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jaytea70

Q: enable journaling in file menu?  where?

I had installed windows on bootcamp for a few months , today i wanted to get rid of it and just reclaim my entire disk for OSX.

 

trying to run bootcamp assistant it says that bootcamp assistant cannot run because the start up disk is not journaled or something,,, so I go to disk utility and tried something in there and it says that it's not journaled and to enable journaling in the file menu..... I've searched High and Low and cannot find the enable journaling anywhere in any menus whatsoever .... Please help there is a gigs i want to reclaim.

Mac Pro, iOS 9.0.2

Posted on Oct 4, 2015 4:54 PM

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 4, 2015 5:09 PM in response to jaytea70
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    Oct 4, 2015 5:09 PM in response to jaytea70

    Run Disk Utility Repair and try to remove Windows using BC Assistant.

     

    You can see the Enable Journaling icon next to the Eject button, but you do not need it yet.

    DiskUtility-Bootcamp-NTFS.png

  • by jaytea70,

    jaytea70 jaytea70 Oct 4, 2015 6:35 PM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 4, 2015 6:35 PM in response to Loner T

    I've tried all that , booting up in recovery using disk utility to repair , I've tried using first aid in the disk utility in applications... I cant get past the second screen in bootcamp assistant because it tells me the startup disk is not journaled , disk utility tells me to enable journaling... I dont see it anywhere next to the eject button or in the file menu.... Can I just start over from scratch?   I don't have OS disk it came preloaded.    Can I make a startup disk or a flash drive startup image or something and just start from scratch?

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 4, 2015 7:42 PM in response to jaytea70
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    Oct 4, 2015 7:42 PM in response to jaytea70

    Please run the following command from OS X Terminal and post the output.

     

    diskutil info /

  • by jaytea70,

    jaytea70 jaytea70 Oct 4, 2015 7:55 PM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 4, 2015 7:55 PM in response to Loner T

    Last login: Sun Oct  4 16:29:48 on console

    johns-Mac-Pro:~ johnthompson$ diskutil info /

       Device Identifier:        disk0s2

       Device Node:              /dev/disk0s2

       Whole:                    No

       Part of Whole:            disk0

       Device / Media Name:      Customer

     

       Volume Name:              Macintosh HD

     

       Mounted:                  Yes

       Mount Point:              /

     

       File System Personality:  Journaled HFS+

       Type (Bundle):            hfs

       Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

       Journal:                  Journal size 24576 KB at offset 0x19502000

       Owners:                   Enabled

     

       Partition Type:           Apple_HFS

       OS Can Be Installed:      Yes

       Recovery Disk:            disk0s3

       Media Type:               Generic

       Protocol:                 PCI

       SMART Status:             Verified

       Volume UUID:              EB0E07F0-2E59-3375-B5DF-00036ADCBFBF

       Disk / Partition UUID:    97580FC2-9FC6-4CE7-B5B4-7AF9579D3B9A

     

       Total Size:               190.0 GB (190000005120 Bytes) (exactly 371093760 512-Byte-Units)

       Volume Free Space:        78.4 GB (78448799744 Bytes) (exactly 153220312 512-Byte-Units)

       Device Block Size:        512 Bytes

       Allocation Block Size:    4096 Bytes

     

       Read-Only Media:          No

       Read-Only Volume:         No

     

       Device Location:          Internal

       Removable Media:          No

     

       Solid State:              Yes

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 4, 2015 8:17 PM in response to jaytea70
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    Oct 4, 2015 8:17 PM in response to jaytea70

    jaytea70 wrote:

     

       File System Personality:  Journaled HFS+

       Type (Bundle):            hfs

       Name (User Visible):      Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

       Journal:                  Journal size 24576 KB at offset 0x19502000

       Owners:                   Enabled

    Your Macintosh HD is properly journaled. Can you boot in Safe Mode - Try safe mode if your Mac doesn't finish starting up - Apple Support - and boot normally and try BC Assistant partitioning?

     

    Try the following two links

     

    Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks - Apple Support

    Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck - Apple Support

     

    Please see Mac OS X: About file system journaling - Apple Support .

     

    The worst case scenario is a Time Machine Backup followed by an internet Recovery, erasing the whole disk and a restore from TM Backup.

  • by jaytea70,

    jaytea70 jaytea70 Oct 4, 2015 8:16 PM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 4, 2015 8:16 PM in response to Loner T

    I know , it says enabled but when I try to use bootcamp assistant or disk utility it tells me to freaking enable it.   Im not stupid im just stumped

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 4, 2015 8:22 PM in response to jaytea70
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    Oct 4, 2015 8:22 PM in response to jaytea70

    Please see the links for safe boot and fsck methods.

  • by jaytea70,

    jaytea70 jaytea70 Oct 4, 2015 8:22 PM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 4, 2015 8:22 PM in response to Loner T

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  • by jaytea70,

    jaytea70 jaytea70 Oct 4, 2015 8:25 PM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 4, 2015 8:25 PM in response to Loner T

    I don't need a time machine back up , i don't have time machine... but i already backed up all my important files on an external drive

    and can do a fresh install and start from scratch... Just download all my apps aftewards since I payed for them already and they are on my account

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 4, 2015 8:27 PM in response to jaytea70
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    Oct 4, 2015 8:27 PM in response to jaytea70

    Please post the output of the following Terminal commands...

     

    diskutil list

    diskutil cs list

    sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

    sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

     

    The "sudo" commands will prompt for your password, and it will not be echoed back. You may also see a warning about improper use of "sudo" and potential data loss due to "abuse" of the command.

  • by jaytea70,

    jaytea70 jaytea70 Oct 4, 2015 8:34 PM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 4, 2015 8:34 PM in response to Loner T

    Last login: Sun Oct  4 19:54:02 on ttys000

    johns-Mac-Pro:~ johnthompson$ diskutil list

    /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            190.0 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

       4:                  Apple_HFS BOOTCAMP                59.5 GB    disk0s4

       5:           Windows Recovery                         471.9 MB   disk0s5

    /dev/disk1 (disk image):

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        +226.6 MB   disk1

       1:                  Apple_HFS PMHOME_3000DL           226.6 MB   disk1s1

    johns-Mac-Pro:~ johnthompson$ diskutil cs list

    No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

    johns-Mac-Pro:~ johnthompson$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 4, 2015 8:39 PM in response to jaytea70
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    Oct 4, 2015 8:39 PM in response to jaytea70

    jaytea70 wrote:

     

    Last login: Sun Oct  4 19:54:02 on ttys000

    johns-Mac-Pro:~ johnthompson$ diskutil list

    /dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *251.0 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:                  Apple_HFS Macintosh HD            190.0 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

       4:                  Apple_HFS BOOTCAMP                59.5 GB    disk0s4

       5:           Windows Recovery                         471.9 MB   disk0s5

    This is your problem. You have formatted it to HFS+ using Disk Utility, Windows went into Recovery. You are supposed to use BC Assistant to remove Windows, nothing else.