Apple Event: May 7th at 7 am PT
for some time I am having problems with my Mac.
over the course of the past weeks, several times restart in safe mode, PRAM-zapping, etrecheck (see attached), but no solution.
Now etrecheck is reporting "failing harddrive". Possible, but it does seem odd.
Some help is needed here.
thank you in advance.
iMac 27″, macOS 10.15
I see two major issues.
I see two major issues.
thank you for your swift answer.
… odd that the fusion drive is unfused: I had a problem with partitioning it: it could no longer have a partition.
What I did was follow instructions to unfuse it, for that was the only way to repair this.
I thought I did the instructions for refusing it, but apparently this action failed?
I do have good back-ups, there is no problem, other then that it takes a lot of time, which I do not have at the moment. This Mac is my work-horse
What do you mean with MS-ware: you mean microsoft? I do have parallels on the Mac, but I hardly use it.
other MS-software like word and excel I do need occasionally. In all my years of Mac I have never had any problem with that.
If you mean bij third party stuff the small tools that Are installed in the background: they are really very handy things that I use daily.
I do not see how my Mac would look like a windhose-pc?
You have a 120GB SSD and a 1T HDD if you erase and refuse those drives, then it should give you a 1.12+GB Fusion Drive.
I see 708GB for the startup disk and another 405GB that looks like it should be part of the Fusion drive.
disk3s5 - nw
708.08 GB (Shared - 11.59 GB used, 289.83 GB available, 281.61 GB free)
APFS
Mount point: /
disk2 - old
405.62 GB (402.91 GB used, 2.71 GB free)
Journaled HFS+
Mount point: /Volumes/old
So from here, something is not right.
adding:
I am not technical enough to know what I means, but I thought the braves were fused. I added some pictures to verify
sounds right.
But, for now I hope it will run for a while, I do not have the time to invest at the moment.
slow mac
