enable journaling in file menu? where?

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enable journaling in file menu? where?

I had installed windows on bootcamp for a few months , today i wanted to get rid of it and just reclaim my entire disk for OSX.

trying to run bootcamp assistant it says that bootcamp assistant cannot run because the start up disk is not journaled or something,,, so I go to disk utility and tried something in there and it says that it's not journaled and to enable journaling in the file menu..... I've searched High and Low and cannot find the enable journaling anywhere in any menus whatsoever .... Please help there is a gigs i want to reclaim.

Mac Pro, iOS 9.0.2

Posted on Oct 4, 2015 4:54 PM

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Loner T

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Oct 4, 2015 5:09 PM in response to jaytea70

Run Disk Utility Repair and try to remove Windows using BC Assistant.

You can see the Enable Journaling icon next to the Eject button, but you do not need it yet.

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jaytea70 Author

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Oct 4, 2015 6:35 PM in response to Loner T

I've tried all that , booting up in recovery using disk utility to repair , I've tried using first aid in the disk utility in applications... I cant get past the second screen in bootcamp assistant because it tells me the startup disk is not journaled , disk utility tells me to enable journaling... I dont see it anywhere next to the eject button or in the file menu.... Can I just start over from scratch? I don't have OS disk it came preloaded. Can I make a startup disk or a flash drive startup image or something and just start from scratch?

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Loner T

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Oct 4, 2015 7:42 PM in response to jaytea70

Please run the following command from OS X Terminal and post the output.

diskutil info /

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jaytea70 Author

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Oct 4, 2015 7:55 PM in response to Loner T

Last login: Sun Oct 4 16:29:48 on console

johns-Mac-Pro:~ johnthompson$ diskutil info /

Device Identifier: disk0s2

Device Node: /dev/disk0s2

Whole: No

Part of Whole: disk0

Device / Media Name: Customer

Volume Name: Macintosh HD

Mounted: Yes

Mount Point: /

File System Personality: Journaled HFS+

Type (Bundle): hfs

Name (User Visible): Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

Journal: Journal size 24576 KB at offset 0x19502000

Owners: Enabled

Partition Type: Apple_HFS

OS Can Be Installed: Yes

Recovery Disk: disk0s3

Media Type: Generic

Protocol: PCI

SMART Status: Verified

Volume UUID: EB0E07F0-2E59-3375-B5DF-00036ADCBFBF

Disk / Partition UUID: 97580FC2-9FC6-4CE7-B5B4-7AF9579D3B9A

Total Size: 190.0 GB (190000005120 Bytes) (exactly 371093760 512-Byte-Units)

Volume Free Space: 78.4 GB (78448799744 Bytes) (exactly 153220312 512-Byte-Units)

Device Block Size: 512 Bytes

Allocation Block Size: 4096 Bytes

Read-Only Media: No

Read-Only Volume: No

Device Location: Internal

Removable Media: No

Solid State: Yes

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Loner T

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Oct 4, 2015 8:17 PM in response to jaytea70

jaytea70 wrote:

File System Personality: Journaled HFS+

Type (Bundle): hfs

Name (User Visible): Mac OS Extended (Journaled)

Journal: Journal size 24576 KB at offset 0x19502000

Owners: Enabled

Your Macintosh HD is properly journaled. Can you boot in Safe Mode - Try safe mode if your Mac doesn't finish starting up - Apple Support - and boot normally and try BC Assistant partitioning?

Try the following two links

Using Disk Utility to verify or repair disks - Apple Support

Resolve startup issues and perform disk maintenance with Disk Utility and fsck - Apple Support

Please see Mac OS X: About file system journaling - Apple Support .

The worst case scenario is a Time Machine Backup followed by an internet Recovery, erasing the whole disk and a restore from TM Backup.

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jaytea70 Author

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Oct 4, 2015 8:16 PM in response to Loner T

I know , it says enabled but when I try to use bootcamp assistant or disk utility it tells me to freaking enable it. Im not stupid im just stumped

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Loner T

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Oct 4, 2015 8:22 PM in response to jaytea70

Please see the links for safe boot and fsck methods.

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jaytea70 Author

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Oct 4, 2015 8:22 PM in response to Loner T

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jaytea70 Author

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Oct 4, 2015 8:25 PM in response to Loner T

I don't need a time machine back up , i don't have time machine... but i already backed up all my important files on an external drive

and can do a fresh install and start from scratch... Just download all my apps aftewards since I payed for them already and they are on my account

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Loner T

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Oct 4, 2015 8:27 PM in response to jaytea70

Please post the output of the following Terminal commands...

diskutil list

diskutil cs list

sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

sudo fdisk /dev/disk0

The "sudo" commands will prompt for your password, and it will not be echoed back. You may also see a warning about improper use of "sudo" and potential data loss due to "abuse" of the command.

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jaytea70 Author

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Oct 4, 2015 8:34 PM in response to Loner T

Last login: Sun Oct 4 19:54:02 on ttys000

johns-Mac-Pro:~ johnthompson$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 190.0 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Apple_HFS BOOTCAMP 59.5 GB disk0s4

5: Windows Recovery 471.9 MB disk0s5

/dev/disk1 (disk image):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme +226.6 MB disk1

1: Apple_HFS PMHOME_3000DL 226.6 MB disk1s1

johns-Mac-Pro:~ johnthompson$ diskutil cs list

No CoreStorage logical volume groups found

johns-Mac-Pro:~ johnthompson$ sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0

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Loner T

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Oct 4, 2015 8:39 PM in response to jaytea70

jaytea70 wrote:

Last login: Sun Oct 4 19:54:02 on ttys000

johns-Mac-Pro:~ johnthompson$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 190.0 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Apple_HFS BOOTCAMP 59.5 GB disk0s4

5: Windows Recovery 471.9 MB disk0s5

This is your problem. You have formatted it to HFS+ using Disk Utility, Windows went into Recovery. You are supposed to use BC Assistant to remove Windows, nothing else.

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