I was using Vmware Fusion. When it was installed, there was a virtual hard-drive created that is labeled Macintosh HD Fusion and it shows that 120.65 GB were allocated from my Macintosh HD. I have deleted the Fusion program and now I want to delete the virtual hard-drive and restore the 120.65 GB to the Macintosh HD. Can you help me with this?
iMac 27″, macOS 10.15
Don Unwin wrote:
---When I do an Info on my virtual hard drive called Macintosh HD Fusion Info says I have 120.74 GB Available with 74 GB free. If I drag the Macintosh HD Fusion icon to Trash, will that process restore the 120.74 GB to the 1 TB Mac hard drive?
There are several things that don't quite add up. If you do a Get Info... in Finder
on a virtual hard drive, you should not be seeing those numbers.
You should be seeing something like this:
If it is truly a VM file.
What it sounds like is that you are trying to delete
a physical partition on your HDD and not a virtual
machine file.
Please open Disk Utility and post a screen shot of the window.
I only have 34 GB available on my 1 TB Mac Hard drive.
When I do an Info on my virtual hard drive called Macintosh HD Fusion Info says I have 120.74 GB Available with 74 GB free. If I drag the Macintosh HD Fusion icon to Trash, will that process restore the 120.74 GB to the 1 TB Mac hard drive?
I dragged the file to the Trash to delete it seems to be gone. But the 120 GB it was using did not show up in my Macintosh HD. It still shows that I only have 34.08 GB free. My main goal was to get rid of the virtual machine and restore the 120 GB to my Macintosh HD. Is there a way that I can do that?
I'm sorry. I guess I'm not being clear.
I did drag the Macintosh HD Fusion icon to the Trash and I did empty the Trash. Now, there is nothing in the Trash. But the 120 GB the icon was using have not been restored to the Mac 1 TB hard drive.
You said in a previous response: You need to delete the file the icon links to.
How do I find the file that the icon linked to?
I really appreciate all the effort that Apple Community members have put in to try to help me get my problem solved.
The Macintosh HD Fusion file re-appeared when I re-booted even though I had previously dragged it to Trash to delete it.
and here is the Info
Fusion was installed by a tech from Fusion and I understood that the icon represented the virtual HD. But my Info display does not label the icon content as a VMBundle.
I understand that I need to delete the file or files that are in the virtual HD but I can't figure out how to find the files to delete them and to permanently remove the icon.
I posted the screen shot previously. It shows Macintosh HD Fusion has a capacity of 120.65 GB. I followed Jeffrey's recommendation and the Macintosh HD Fusion icon is not longer shown.
Are you able to tell me how I can remove the Macintosh HD Fusion so that the 120.65 GB will be restored to the Macintosh HD?
I have 3 external hard drives and before I sent the screen shot of Disk Utility I ejected them. I did another Screen Shot with the external hard drives active and I am attaching it now.
Now it is becoming clear. Your iMac was equipped with a
"Fusion Drive" in which the SSD and HDD work together
as a combined drive.
In your case, you have separated the SSD portion from the HDD
portion, thus the two drives and as such the only way to rejoin them is:
How to fix a split Fusion Drive - Apple Support
or you can simply live with the two separate drives.
When I delete the icon: Macintosh HD Fusion, will the 120.65 GB be restored automatically to my Macintosh HD?
Read the previous statement again.
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Your whole thread is incorrect. You don't have a Virtual Machine drive. It is impossible to help you unless you provide the correct information.
Here it is.
You did not check the "Show all devices.." as I illustrated.
You are only displaying "Volumes".
Is this what you need?
Virtual Machine Hard Drive
