Q: Cant use free space. Couldn't read partition map (-69876)
Hi all,
just bought a new iMac 27" with 512 SSD. After bootcamp failed to install i did a reboot. Unfortunately bootcamp would not want to reinstall. Checking Disk Utility showed free space in the partition table. I can not delete it ( error code Couldn't read partition map (-69876)) so i'm kinda stuck now with 1 gb off free space that not allows me to use it and prevents bootcamp from installing Message:
The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
Around 100gb available for bootcamp but this cannot be merged to 1 disk as required...
diskutil list:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 399.4 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS NewName 99.4 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +399.0 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
3DB995B0-D676-471E-839C-571916143CA0
Unencrypted
Please advise what to do.
Many thanks.
Lennart
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), failed bootcamp
Posted on Dec 23, 2015 7:26 PM

