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HELP! I have 7 partitions, 2 EFI, 2 MacHD, etc.

I have no idea how this happened, but my internal HD has ended up with 7 (yes, seven) partitions, 6 of which are invisible, and several of which are duplicates. Neat trick, I know, and no, no clue how!


Specs: iMac 27" Late 2012, running Mavericks 10.9.5. Have tried rebooting into Time Machine (external drive), a CarbonCopy Clone (other external drive) and Recovery Mode, none of these will allow me to re-partition the drive. Here is what Disk Utility shows (with hidden volumes enabled):

User uploaded file

When I run diskutil list, the drives appear as follows:

/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 *1.0 TB disk1

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage 999.3 GB disk1s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk1s3

/dev/disk2

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Manor *1.1 TB disk2


This all started when trying to set up BootCamp, which also threw up a list of 7 volumes, none of which could be used to install Windows.

I am pretty much out of ideas...... Help?

iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), 27&" 3.4 Ghz Core i7

Posted on Jan 29, 2015 4:51 PM

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Feb 8, 2015 6:16 PM in response to Ravenmoon

My recommendation is to backup this on TM (and Windows separately) and see if re-installing OSX will fixe the Console issue. It may also fix the momentary EFI mount issue. How many OSX upgrades has this system been through? It would also be a good test to remove DU Debug and see if it addresses the EFI mounting issue.


Glad to see it behave a bit more reasonably (albeit not perfectly).

HELP! I have 7 partitions, 2 EFI, 2 MacHD, etc.

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