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

there seems to be problems with Yosemite and boot camp assistant


i'm cross posting this to the iMac forum but I spent hours online with apple tech today and none of the several foks I talked to there had even seen a 5k 27" yet and my call back from Cupertino and engineering is no till tomorrow so I thought I should post here too

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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Windshadow99 wrote:

 

I Sure do wonder what caused all this problem in the first place

In one word - "Yosemite".

Posted on Oct 22, 2014 10:39 AM

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  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 27, 2014 11:02 AM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 27, 2014 11:02 AM in response to Loner T

    SSure why not I also have an empty 128 gig usb3 thumb drive available should I plug it in along with the externnal chain of drives?

    and do we do this starting at bc installer or do we boot into the efi of the install dvd

     

    er we have problem it is not booting back to the internal SSD I get the circle slash icon after a bit.... Do I recover to the wayback backup?

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 27, 2014 11:08 AM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 27, 2014 11:08 AM in response to Windshadow99

    The internal SSD is still in checking mode. We do not really need Yosemite. Use the DVD and boot and install on the 600GB empty space. BC drivers can be downloaded/installed after Windows finishes, if at all.

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 27, 2014 11:10 AM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 27, 2014 11:10 AM in response to Windshadow99

    OOk I am at an option boot screen looking at my wifi logged in and these disk images

    macintosh HD

    FIshingBoat  (my time machine backup)

    shimmo (contains a 10.8 system)

    recovery-10-10

    orange (time machine for my old computer)

    windows (the dvd icon )

    efi boot (also dvd icon)

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 27, 2014 11:16 AM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 27, 2014 11:16 AM in response to Windshadow99

    Please use "efi boot (also dvd icon)".

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 27, 2014 11:23 AM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 27, 2014 11:23 AM in response to Loner T

    DDoing it the windows setup window is the size of a biz card so flyspeck text makes it hard to enter the code

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 27, 2014 11:32 AM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 27, 2014 11:32 AM in response to Windshadow99

    IIt is now at the computer will restart several times window

    for about 20 sec and now we have

    tthe insulation was canciled

    with a pop up that says

    windows could not prepaid the computer to boot into the next phase of

    iinstallation. To install windows restart the installation

     

    should i ld I have tried to format the unalocated 599 gig from inside the installer?

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 27, 2014 11:34 AM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 27, 2014 11:34 AM in response to Windshadow99

    If you successfully chose the partition and started the installation, it should split/format it into MSR 128MB and rest as MSData. Can you check diskutil list, if your OS X is back?

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 27, 2014 11:51 AM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 27, 2014 11:51 AM in response to Loner T

    NNo Macintosh HD is not back I get the stop icon and that is from a normal start and option start and selecting it booting to recovery-10-10 now

    wwhich worked I will send the list from there in just a min

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 27, 2014 11:51 AM in response to man290663
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    Oct 27, 2014 11:51 AM in response to man290663

    The issue is that the Disk Utility on Yosemite is broken and does not work correctly. It can be done correctly on the command-line and it is pretty straight-forward. Unless the disk controller had an issue, which is unlikely, because you could see your drives anyway, so it was not fried. A fried controller shows no drives.

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 27, 2014 11:54 AM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 27, 2014 11:54 AM in response to Loner T

    well thats good any way here is the after list not a pretty site is it

    -bash-3.2# diskutil list

    /dev/disk0

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *121.3 GB   disk0

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1

       2:          Apple_CoreStorage                         121.0 GB   disk0s2

       3:                 Apple_Boot Boot OS X               134.2 MB   disk0s3

    /dev/disk1

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk1

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk1s1

       2:                  Apple_HFS FishingBoat             2.0 TB     disk1s2

    /dev/disk2

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk2

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1

       2: DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC               314.6 MB   disk2s2

       3:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk2s3

       4:         Microsoft Reserved                         134.2 MB   disk2s4

       5:       Microsoft Basic Data                         599.4 GB   disk2s5

       6:                  Apple_HFS macintoshHD             2.4 TB     disk2s6

    /dev/disk3

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk3

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk3s1

       2:                  Apple_HFS CatBoat                 2.0 TB     disk3s2

    /dev/disk4

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            IR3_CCSA_X64FRE_EN-... *4.1 GB     disk4

    /dev/disk5

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk5

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk5s1

       2:       Microsoft Basic Data Union                   500.1 GB   disk5s2

       3:                  Apple_HFS Shimmo                  499.6 GB   disk5s3

       4:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk5s4

       5:                  Apple_HFS Orange                  500.1 GB   disk5s5

       6:                  Apple_HFS Newcastle               499.4 GB   disk5s6

    /dev/disk6

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:     Apple_partition_scheme                        *1.3 GB     disk6

       1:        Apple_partition_map                         30.7 KB    disk6s1

       2:                  Apple_HFS OS X Base System        1.3 GB     disk6s2

    /dev/disk7

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *123.6 GB   disk7

       1:             Windows_FAT_32 CORSAIR                 123.6 GB   disk7s1

    /dev/disk8

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            untitled               *5.2 MB     disk8

    /dev/disk9

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk9

    /dev/disk10

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk10

    /dev/disk11

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk11

    /dev/disk12

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk12

    /dev/disk13

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk13

    /dev/disk14

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            untitled               *6.3 MB     disk14

    /dev/disk15

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            untitled               *2.1 MB     disk15

    /dev/disk16

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            untitled               *1.0 MB     disk16

    /dev/disk17

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk17

    /dev/disk18

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            untitled               *524.3 KB   disk18

    /dev/disk19

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            untitled               *1.0 MB     disk19

    /dev/disk20

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:                            untitled               *6.3 MB     disk20

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 27, 2014 12:09 PM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 27, 2014 12:09 PM in response to Windshadow99

    This is what I am interested in. If you try the EFI boot and if it asks, format the 599.5GB drive as NTFS, it should go further. Remove all external drives before you start. Is /dev/disk5 an external drive, if yes, please remove it as well.

     

    /dev/disk2

       #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

       0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *3.0 TB     disk2

       1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk2s1

       2: DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC               314.6 MB   disk2s2

       3:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk2s3

       4:         Microsoft Reserved                         134.2 MB   disk2s4

       5:       Microsoft Basic Data                         599.4 GB   disk2s5

       6:                  Apple_HFS macintoshHD             2.4 TB     disk2s6

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 27, 2014 12:25 PM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 27, 2014 12:25 PM in response to Loner T

    WWell that presents a problem as I have to use the LaCie 2 tera FireWire 800 (partitioned into 4 500GB ) as a bridge to my FireWire 400 external DVD burner hence the use of a FireWire 800 to thunderbolt aadapter to the LaCie and then to the burner one reason I chose 600 was to be sure I did not pick one of the LaCie partition when doing this

     

    can I copy the dvd onto a usb thumb drive? I have a usb3 128GB and a usb2 16 gb on hand the 16 already has the files from the apple BC installer on it the corsar 128 is in its as sold windows format as it has not jet been used

     

    The efi boot only asks if I want to update or do an advanced install I think it sees the files that have som old boot camp data and windows files on one of the lacie partitions but if I pick that option it tells me to run windows first and leave the efi install the other option brings up the select the disk option but it is hard to work with as it is a nonresize window the size of a biz card that shows 3 drives at a time in flyspeck type so it is slow to work with

    i will give it another try though and select the 599.4 option

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 27, 2014 12:42 PM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 27, 2014 12:42 PM in response to Windshadow99

    i I tried that it says

    wwe couldon't create a new partition or locate an existing on. For more information se the setup log files

     

    the only 500+GB to pick is now shown after that first attempt as drive 1 partition 5 total size 558.2 GB.  Free space 558.0GB. Primary

     

    will try to format it  ok no choice as to what format is given just a warning about deleting files

     

    right back to the we couldn't creat a new partition ....... See the setup log files

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Oct 27, 2014 12:45 PM in response to Windshadow99
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    Oct 27, 2014 12:45 PM in response to Windshadow99

    If you are willing to try this, format all of these chunks back into a single 600GB partition, and use BC rather than EFI boot, and when it is rebooting, hold the Alt key and choose EFI boot. See if that works better.

  • by Windshadow99,

    Windshadow99 Windshadow99 Oct 27, 2014 12:51 PM in response to Loner T
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    Oct 27, 2014 12:51 PM in response to Loner T

    TThe problem there is I don't have the Macintosh HD as a useable boot but I will try what you say to try

    the windows setup drive selection screen only shows three at a time  the last one in the list is drive 5 unalocated space b931.1GB   free 931.1 GB

    WHich makes no sense

     

    btw I am doing this support forum mostly from my iPad except when I am cutting and pasting in recovery mode

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