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I need to sudo cs delete an encrypted hard drive but get an error "Not a valid CoreStorage Logical Volume Group UUID"

Ok so I encrypted an internal HDD with DOE compliant encryption, and forgot the password. I am not using a typical mac bootloader so apple C when its booting will not work to delete it before its mounted. I have to do it through the terminal. The drive I want to delete is HDD2. Here is the screen capture of running diskutil cs list in terminal.


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Then I disconnected everything to avoid problems, leaving my encrypted HDD only, copied the UUID, it's in this format:


diskutil cs delete XXXXXXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX

But I am unsure which group or physical UUID I need to use, there are three associated with HDD2, logical volume group, physical volume and logical volume family. I thought before pressing enter I better ask first ... as I tried it on the physical volume first and I got the error in the title so dont want to start guessing what do to.

Thanks

Posted on Apr 24, 2013 4:23 AM

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I need to sudo cs delete an encrypted hard drive but get an error "Not a valid CoreStorage Logical Volume Group UUID"

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