First Aid could not unmount the volume for repair

My MAC Fusion drive gave me the prohibition error symbol so I started it in safe mode. Within Disk Utility I was trying to run First Aid on my Macintosh HD and it came back with "First Aid could not unmount the volume for repair. Click Done to continue>" message. I tried this on Container disk 2 and Fusion Drive itself. Any suggestions on how I can repair this hard drive?

Thanks much!

iMac Pro

Posted on Dec 16, 2021 8:24 AM

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