Getting 2 TB HD back to life - and getting back programs; re-editing CoreStorage Physical Volume Set
Hello community!
Background:
The former internal HD (2 TB) from my iMac27 = iMac (Retina 5K, 27″, End 2015) seems to have died.
It got replaced with 2 TB SSD.
The former internal HD now hangs on one of these USB hubs, awaiting further corrective action.
For policy, data are always stored on external HDs here.
I am addressing the recovery of my old programs here. Maximum hope: Get this old HD back to be bootable.
So I do not need to recover JPGs, documents and the like.
I do want to get the old programs back to life.
FileVault was never activated. Encryption: no.
Finder does not recognise the disk.
Apples Disk Utility program does.
And running 1st aid reveals the following output:
"Logical Volume group ... spans 2 devices" and
"Incomplete or inconsistent CoreStorage Physical Volume Set" and
error code (-69716).
2 runs for recovery with wondershare recovery were done, tons of files copied onto another hard disk, but except for the Parallel data, the Mac programs do not show up. (The former internal HD was never used for booting with different OS. No bootable Windows partition. All windows apps were inside a Parallel "box".)
Time for Terminal then.
Terminal runs show:
On command "diskutil list":
...
/dev/disk2 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 2.0 TB disk2s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk2s3
...
On command "diskutil info disk2"
@Wolfgangs-iMac /volumes % diskutil info disk2
Device Identifier: disk2
Device Node: /dev/disk2
Whole: Yes
Part of Whole: disk2
Device / Media Name: D ST2000DM001
Volume Name: Not applicable (no file system)
Mounted: Not applicable (no file system)
File System: None
Content (IOContent): GUID_partition_scheme
OS Can Be Installed: No
Media Type: Generic
Protocol: USB
SMART Status: Not Supported
Disk Size: 2.0 TB (2000398934016 Bytes) (exactly 3907029168 512-Byte-Units)
Device Block Size: 512 Bytes
Media OS Use Only: No
Media Read-Only: No
Volume Read-Only: Not applicable (no file system)
Device Location: External
Removable Media: Fixed
Solid State: Info not available
Virtual: No
(end of terminal output).
Now, as it has been the bootable internal HD with MacOS before, these data are "demanding".
Next Terminal command&output:
@Wolfgangs-iMac /volumes % diskutil cs list
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group E2B0BDE6-ECB2-4D35-BFB1-F5015C7BC927
=========================================================
Name: Macintosh HD
Status: Offline
Size: 1999539175424 B (2.0 TB)
Free Space: -none-
|
+-< Physical Volume 8B6569D4-36A9-45DA-A0D4-BAB7828FFDDB
| ----------------------------------------------------
| (No properties)
|
+-< Physical Volume B8F4B18C-4E54-4B74-8CE4-2C89FDA26AF1
----------------------------------------------------
Index: 1
Disk: disk2s2
Status: Checking
Size: 1999539175424 B (2.0 TB)
(end of terminal output)
My question:
=> Any helpful commands to re-write the complained "CoreStorage Physical Volume Set"? <=
I ran "sudo gpt recover /dev/disk2" without improvement.
There are some web pages addressing similar events
(e.g. https://nbalkota.wordpress.com/2013/01/13/recovering-a-non-readable-disk-on-mac-os-x/)
but it may be better to get sentiment here.
Thanks in advance!
iMac (2017 – 2020)
