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disk utility error code 3 when creating windows image for bootcamp

I have an iMac and am trying to install windows via bootcamp. I have an complete windows 7 installation disk and am using disk utility to create an image. The process appears to be working with the dialogue box saying it is reading the windows file and the progress bar takes about 10 minutes to reach about 75% and then stops saying " Operation Failed" and a supplementary dialogue box appears saying "The operation couldn’t be completed. (com.apple.diskutility error 3.)"

I have tried with 2 different destination drives with the same result.

Does anybody have any suggestions or know where I can find out what the error code signifies please?

iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)

Posted on Nov 11, 2015 5:10 PM

88 replies

Nov 24, 2015 3:49 PM in response to Loner T

repairVolume disk2 fails,..invalid request -69886

repairdisk disk0 returns "Repairing the partition map might erase disk0s1, proceed? (y/N)

Do I proceed?

Loner T

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Nov 24, 2015 4:02 PM in response to davefromhythe

Your CS volume contains disk0s2 and disk1s2. Disk0s1 is the EFI. It should not impact your CS volume. Will you be able to post a screen shot/image of the screen after it completes the repair. It should put the Free Space back into the CS volume.

Is Disk2 still your CS volume?

Nov 25, 2015 6:01 AM in response to Loner T

I proceeded with diskutil repairdisk disk2 which seems ok. I did another diskutil cslist and disk2 now seems to be disk3, is that correct?

-bash-3.2# diskutil repairVolume disk2

Error starting file system repair for disk2: Invalid request (-69886)

-bash-3.2# diskutil repairdisk disk0

Repairing the partition map might erase disk0s1, proceed? (y/N) y

Started partition map repair on disk0

Checking prerequisites

Checking the partition list

Adjusting partition map to fit whole disk as required

Checking for an EFI system partition

Checking the EFI system partition's size

Checking the EFI system partition's file system

Checking the EFI system partition's folder content

Checking all HFS data partition loader spaces

Checking booter partitions

Checking booter partition disk0s3

Reviewing boot support loaders

Checking Core Storage Physical Volume partitions

Verifying storage system

Checking volume

disk1s2: Scan for Volume Headers

disk0s2: Scan for Volume Headers

disk1s2: Scan for Disk Labels

disk0s2: Scan for Disk Labels

Logical Volume Group 18033EC1-89B6-4B33-9479-810A2051D247 spans 2 devices

disk0s2+disk1s2: Scan for Metadata Volume

Logical Volume Group has a 24 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy

Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint

Load and verify Segment Headers

Load and verify Checkpoint Payload

Load and verify Transaction Segment

Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions

Load and verify Virtual Address Table

Load and verify Segment Usage Table

Load and verify Metadata Superblock

Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees

Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume

Load and verify 41C80A87-B7EA-4C3D-9269-FE818EDBEB47

Load and verify 9B95CEA1-BCD9-41BD-8AF6-578044557A26

Load and verify Freespace Summary

Load and verify Block Accounting

Load and verify Live Virtual Addresses

Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid

Load and verify Segment Cleaning

The volume 18033EC1-89B6-4B33-9479-810A2051D247 appears to be OK

Storage system check exit code is 0

Repairing storage system

The volume disk1s2+disk0s2 cannot be repaired when it is in use

Checking volume

disk1s2: Scan for Volume Headers

disk0s2: Scan for Volume Headers

disk1s2: Scan for Disk Labels

disk0s2: Scan for Disk Labels

Logical Volume Group 18033EC1-89B6-4B33-9479-810A2051D247 spans 2 devices

disk0s2+disk1s2: Scan for Metadata Volume

Logical Volume Group has a 24 MB Metadata Volume with double redundancy

Start scanning metadata for a valid checkpoint

Load and verify Segment Headers

Load and verify Checkpoint Payload

Load and verify Transaction Segment

Incorporate 0 newer non-checkpoint transactions

Load and verify Virtual Address Table

Load and verify Segment Usage Table

Load and verify Metadata Superblock

Load and verify Logical Volumes B-Trees

Logical Volume Group contains 1 Logical Volume

Load and verify 41C80A87-B7EA-4C3D-9269-FE818EDBEB47

Load and verify 9B95CEA1-BCD9-41BD-8AF6-578044557A26

Load and verify Freespace Summary

Load and verify Block Accounting

Load and verify Live Virtual Addresses

Newest transaction commit checkpoint is valid

Load and verify Segment Cleaning

The volume 18033EC1-89B6-4B33-9479-810A2051D247 appears to be OK

Storage system check exit code is 0

Updating Windows boot.ini files as required

The partition map appears to be OK

Finished partition map repair on disk0

-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

+-- Logical Volume Group 18033EC1-89B6-4B33-9479-810A2051D247

=========================================================

Name: Mac SSD

Status: Online

Size: 368337891328 B (368.3 GB)

Free Space: 248874012672 B (248.9 GB)

+-< Physical Volume D9EA3398-0524-4307-9146-DE2B0D0EA8C0

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 0

| Disk: disk0s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 119197646848 B (119.2 GB)

+-< Physical Volume DBEE813F-F777-4CC6-8EBC-751CBB1B5D07

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 1

| Disk: disk1s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 249140244480 B (249.1 GB)

+-> Logical Volume Family 41C80A87-B7EA-4C3D-9269-FE818EDBEB47

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

Encryption Type: None

+-> Logical Volume 9B95CEA1-BCD9-41BD-8AF6-578044557A26

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

Disk: disk3

Status: Online

Size (Total): 118826336256 B (118.8 GB)

Revertible: No

LV Name: Mac SSD

Volume Name: Mac SSD

Content Hint: Apple_HFS

-bash-3.2#

Loner T

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59,526 points

Nov 25, 2015 6:45 AM in response to davefromhythe

The volume disk1s2+disk0s2 cannot be repaired when it is in use

Are you booted in Internet Recovery or Local Recovery? You should be in Internet Recovery.

In Internet Recovery, run

diskutil cs resizeVolume 9B95CEA1-BCD9-41BD-8AF6-578044557A26 0g

This is the man page.

diskutil cs resizeVolume

Usage: diskutil coreStorage resizeVolume

lvUUID|MountPoint|DiskIdentifier|DeviceNode size

Resize a logical volume, which is one of one or more disks that consume storage

out of a logical volume group. The logical volume group will have more or less

available space after this operation, if it was a shrink or grow, respectively.

Specifying zero as the size asks for an "automatic" fit-to-fill-LVG operation.

Example: diskutil coreStorage resizeVolume

11111111-2222-3333-4444-555555555555 10g

Once complete, re-run the diskutil repairDisk disk0 command.

Nov 25, 2015 7:19 AM in response to Loner T

I rebooted in Internet recovery and ran "diskutil cs resizeVolume 9B95CEA1-BCD9-41BD-8AF6-578044557A26 0g"

message returned was "Error resizing CoreStorage Logical Volume: Not avalid CoreStorage Volume UUID (-69776)"

I retyped again with the same result. I am confident I typed all the digits correctly.

Loner T

Level 9

59,526 points

Nov 25, 2015 7:29 AM in response to davefromhythe

The UUID came from your diskutil cs list output. Can you run diskutil cs list and verify that I did not cut/paste the incorrect value?

This was also the reason to post the syntax page, in case I had a typo.

Nov 25, 2015 8:04 AM in response to Loner T

I actully typed the sequence from the cs list output rather than your message to eliminate any typo's.Everthing looks right.

Nov 25, 2015 8:35 AM in response to davefromhythe

I ran diskutil cs list again and have got a different output see below

-bash-3.2#

-bash-3.2# diskutil cs resizeVolume 9B95CEA1-BCD9-41BD-8AF6-578044557A26 0g

Error resizing CoreStorage Logical Volume: Not a valid CoreStorage Logical Volume UUID (-69776)

-bash-3.2# diskutil cs resizeVolume 9B95CEA1-BCD9-41BD-8AF6-578044557A26 0g

Error resizing CoreStorage Logical Volume: Not a valid CoreStorage Logical Volume UUID (-69776)

-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

+-- Logical Volume Group 18033EC1-89B6-4B33-9479-810A2051D247

=========================================================

Name: -none-

Sequence: 0

Free Space: 0 B (0 B)

+-< Physical Volume D9EA3398-0524-4307-9146-DE2B0D0EA8C0

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

Index: 0

Disk: disk0s2

Status: Incompatible

Size: -none-

-bash-3.2#

Loner T

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59,526 points

Nov 25, 2015 10:04 AM in response to davefromhythe

davefromhythe wrote:

-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group 18033EC1-89B6-4B33-9479-810A2051D247

=========================================================

Name: Mac SSD

Status: Online

Size: 368337891328 B (368.3 GB)

Free Space: 248874012672 B (248.9 GB)

|

+-< Physical Volume D9EA3398-0524-4307-9146-DE2B0D0EA8C0

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 0

| Disk: disk0s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 119197646848 B (119.2 GB)

|

+-< Physical Volume DBEE813F-F777-4CC6-8EBC-751CBB1B5D07

| ----------------------------------------------------

| Index: 1

| Disk: disk1s2

| Status: Online

| Size: 249140244480 B (249.1 GB)

|

+-> Logical Volume Family 41C80A87-B7EA-4C3D-9269-FE818EDBEB47

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

Encryption Type: None

|

+-> Logical Volume 9B95CEA1-BCD9-41BD-8AF6-578044557A26

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

Disk: disk3

Status: Online

Size (Total): 118826336256 B (118.8 GB)

Revertible: No

LV Name: Mac SSD

Volume Name: Mac SSD

Content Hint: Apple_HFS

-bash-3.2#

You had this layout when we started, but now you have...

-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

|

+-- Logical Volume Group 18033EC1-89B6-4B33-9479-810A2051D247

=========================================================

Name: -none-

Sequence: 0

Free Space: 0 B (0 B)

|

+-< Physical Volume D9EA3398-0524-4307-9146-DE2B0D0EA8C0

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

Index: 0

Disk: disk0s2

Status: Incompatible

Size: -none-

Can you post the output of diskutil list?

Nov 25, 2015 11:14 AM in response to Loner T

diskutil list output as requested

-bash-3.2#

-bash-3.2# diskutil cs resizeVolume 9B95CEA1-BCD9-41BD-8AF6-578044557A26 0g

Error resizing CoreStorage Logical Volume: Not a valid CoreStorage Logical Volume UUID (-69776)

-bash-3.2# diskutil cs resizeVolume 9B95CEA1-BCD9-41BD-8AF6-578044557A26 0g

Error resizing CoreStorage Logical Volume: Not a valid CoreStorage Logical Volume UUID (-69776)

-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

+-- Logical Volume Group 18033EC1-89B6-4B33-9479-810A2051D247

=========================================================

Name: -none-

Sequence: 0

Free Space: 0 B (0 B)

+-< Physical Volume D9EA3398-0524-4307-9146-DE2B0D0EA8C0

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

Index: 0

Disk: disk0s2

Status: Incompatible

Size: -none-

-bash-3.2# diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *240.1 GB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage 119.2 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 120.0 GB disk0s4

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.0 GB disk1

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage 249.1 GB disk1s2

3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s3

/dev/disk2

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_partition_scheme *1.4 GB disk2

1: Apple_partition_map 30.7 KB disk2s1

2: Apple_Driver_ATAPI 2.0 KB disk2s2

3: Apple_HFS Mac OS X Base System 1.4 GB disk2s3

/dev/disk3

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled *524.3 KB disk3

/dev/disk4

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled *524.3 KB disk4

/dev/disk5

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled *524.3 KB disk5

/dev/disk6

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled *524.3 KB disk6

/dev/disk7

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled *524.3 KB disk7

/dev/disk8

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled *6.3 MB disk8

/dev/disk9

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled *2.1 MB disk9

/dev/disk10

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: untitled *1.0 MB 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 *1.0 MB disk13

-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list

CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)

+-- Logical Volume Group 18033EC1-89B6-4B33-9479-810A2051D247

=========================================================

Name: -none-

Sequence: 0

Free Space: 0 B (0 B)

+-< Physical Volume D9EA3398-0524-4307-9146-DE2B0D0EA8C0

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

Index: 0

Disk: disk0s2

Status: Incompatible

Size: -none-

-bash-3.2#

Loner T

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59,526 points

Nov 25, 2015 11:27 AM in response to davefromhythe

Notice disk0 and disk1 show up as CS disks, but diskutil cs list show incompatible. In your Recovery console (Internet Recovery) what is the OS icon look like for the Re-install OSX option. If you are booted from an older OSX version (older than 10.8.5), diskutil cs will cause issues.

If this does not work, you may have to install Yosemite or install the original OSX that came with your Mac and upgrade the external disk to Yosemite and boot from it.

Please see

How to install OS X on an external drive connected to your Mac - Apple Support

OS X versions and builds included with Mac computers - Apple Support

Nov 25, 2015 2:45 PM in response to Loner T

The Re-install OSX icon is a lion.

I think I upgraded from Yosemite to el Capitan on the HDD and did a clean install of el Capitan on the SSD.

Loner T

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59,526 points

Nov 25, 2015 2:48 PM in response to davefromhythe

Lion will not work. Can you install Lion on an external disk, and upgrade to at least Yosemite (or El Capitan)? I prefer Yosemite over El Capitan.

Nov 25, 2015 3:11 PM in response to Loner T

I thought I was already using el Capitan, isn't the Lion because I have booted via internet recovery?

I haven't got any installation disks.

Loner T

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59,526 points

Nov 25, 2015 3:16 PM in response to davefromhythe

Internet Recovery is running Lion. Your internal disk is El Capitan. CS volumes are not supported in Lion. We need to get an external storage disk, USB/TB/FW and install Lion on the external disk, boot from Lion, and upgrade Lion to Yosemite or El Capitan on the external disk and then fix the internal CS volume.

disk utility error code 3 when creating windows image for bootcamp