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Q: More boot camp problems new 5k imac 3 tera fusion drive

MMy bto 5k shipped from China sunday night and arrived in Maine this morning.... Amazing when you think about it for a bto

iinstallation and set up we're going fine and I started up boot camp assistant to create  a temp boot camp while I wait for my thunder bay 4 box to take the drives for my old Mac pro when boot camp will have a1 tera SSD all to itself....

so carved off a 700 gig boot camp partition which the assistant formatted fat I then plugged is the lighting to FW adapter in a LaCie 2 tera fw 800 drive to act as a bridge to my LaCie DVD burner which uses the old fw400 cables and inserted my new shrink wrap win 8.1 retail 64 DVD and up comes the win 8 install in very tiny type in a tiny window which got a bit of a laugh out of me.

 

And I go through it to the point of selecting that boot camp partition and then said it could not use a fat partition and I should reformat it from the win 8.1 installer which I did and then it said it could not use and unknown partition so I said great and booted back to 10-10 and the boot camp tool to put things back and it said it could not I then went to disk tools and it also said the  3tera fusion could not be either reformatted or put back to a single partition I was on with tech support where I went up through 4 levels of support due to the 5k bto which most had no knowledge of. We tried the optioncommand r to get to DT and the same problem as did going to reinstall from the net which after a 30 min down load could not reformat either it is now kicked to Cupertino with a call back tomorrow

 

( At this point all I want to do is put the computer back in the condition it was in when i started with a plain Yosemite on an unpartitioned 3 tera fusion... Then deal with boot camp when it can have its own drive)

am betting it will take a Unix comand line to reformat but be aware there may be boot camp issues with my configuration

and  any help here will be great fully received

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Oct 21, 2014 4:04 PM

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  • by fredz85,

    fredz85 fredz85 Nov 4, 2014 10:30 AM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 4, 2014 10:30 AM in response to Loner T

    Here you go:

     

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=1000555581440; sectorsize=512; blocks=1954210120

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 1954210119

           start        size  index  contents

               0           1         PMBR

               1           1         Pri GPT header

               2          32         Pri GPT table

              34           6       

              40      409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-xx

          409640   976920808      2  GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-xx

       977330448     1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-xx

       978599984        2000       

       978601984   974686208      4  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-xx

      1953288192      921600      5  GPT part - DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-xx

      1954209792         295       

      1954210087          32         Sec GPT table

      1954210119           1         Sec GPT header

     

    On Windows, Diskpart reports GPT partitions only.

    And yes, Windows (10) works just fine (and fast).

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 4, 2014 10:35 AM in response to fredz85
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    Nov 4, 2014 10:35 AM in response to fredz85

    GPT#5 looks like a Windows RE. Are you able to install W8.1 via EFI. You may also end with a MSR partition.

  • by fredz85,

    fredz85 fredz85 Nov 4, 2014 10:59 AM in response to Loner T
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    Nov 4, 2014 10:59 AM in response to Loner T

    Why would the Recovery Environment (RE) be bad? And the MSR? Should I not have both?

    I installed Windows 8.1 this morning, same result. To me this seems full GPT/EFI, but not to you?


    EDIT: in Windows I get this. There is a star under GPT in "list disk".

     

    DISKPART> list disk

      Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
      --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
      Disk 0    Online          931 GB      0 B        *

     

    DISKPART> list volume

      Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
      ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
      Volume 0     C   WINDOWS      NTFS   Partition    464 GB  Healthy    Boot
      Volume 1         EFI          FAT32  Partition    200 MB  Healthy    System
      Volume 2                      NTFS   Partition    450 MB  Healthy    Hidden

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Nov 4, 2014 11:05 AM in response to fredz85
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    Nov 4, 2014 11:05 AM in response to fredz85

    It looks good. I do not see any issues. The EFI being a volume not a partition is a bit different.

     

    On my rMBP Late 2013 (15") the GPT looks like the following. GPT4 is MSR, GPT5 is Microsoft Data. I am running 64-bit W8.1.

     

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: mediasize=500277790720; sectorsize=512; blocks=977105060

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: PMBR at sector 0

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

    gpt show: /dev/disk0: Sec GPT at sector 977105059

          start       size  index  contents

              0          1         PMBR

              1          1         Pri GPT header

              2         32         Pri GPT table

             34          6        

             40     409600      1  GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

         409640  487712920      2  GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      488122560    1269536      3  GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

      489392096         32        

      489392128     262144      4  GPT part - E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE

      489654272  487450624      5  GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

      977104896        131        

      977105027         32         Sec GPT table

      977105059          1         Sec GPT header

     

     

    Disk: /dev/disk0 geometry: 60821/255/63 [977105060 sectors]

    Signature: 0xAA55

             Starting       Ending

    #: id  cyl  hd sec -  cyl  hd sec [     start -       size]

    ------------------------------------------------------------------------

    1: EE 1023 254  63 - 1023 254  63 [         1 -  977105059] <Unknown ID>

    2: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     

    3: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused     

    4: 00    0   0   0 -    0   0   0 [         0 -          0] unused 

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