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Feb 6, 2016 2:55 PM in response to mdwfromnycby Loner T,The only partition that is preserved in a merge operation is the first disk. All other partitions are erased and subsumed in the first partition specified in the command. If you want disk0s3 preserved, specify it first.
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Feb 6, 2016 4:21 PM in response to mdwfromnycby Loner T,. You are doing swimmingly well. You knew the correct questions to ask instinctively, before you caused a catastrophe. Please continue. Ask as many questions as you like.
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Feb 6, 2016 7:10 PM in response to Loner Tby mdwfromnyc,Things are now worse. I cannot get Bootcamp Assistant to partition the drive. All it does is load Windows Support. The only button to push is "Quit". There is no Bootcamp icon in the drive list.
If I manage to erase, unmount, and throw in the trash HD and one called Untitled that kept showing up and they disappear, whenever I restart, they appear again.
I must have booted up Windows 10 times. There is never a Bootcamp selection for me to install Windows onto. It appeared once briefly and when I selected it to install Windows on, it disappeared and never came back.
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Feb 6, 2016 7:11 PM in response to mdwfromnycby mdwfromnyc,Here is the current diskutil list:
diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 550.7 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 2 413.0 GB disk0s3
4: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s4
5: Microsoft Basic Data 35.4 GB disk0s5
/dev/disk1 (external, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: FDisk_partition_scheme *32.0 GB disk1
1: Windows_FAT_32 MBRFAT 32.0 GB disk1s1
/dev/disk2 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GSP1RMCHPXFREO_EN_DVD *3.3 GB disk2
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Feb 6, 2016 7:37 PM in response to mdwfromnycby Loner T,You still have HD and HD2. BCA will not let you do anything with this partition scheme. Since you want to preserve disk0s3 (HD 2), please run
diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ "Macintosh HD" disk0s3 disk0s2
Post back any error messages and the output.
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Feb 6, 2016 8:12 PM in response to Loner Tby mdwfromnyc,Merging partitions encountered error "Couldn't unmount disk (-69888)".
The erase will not occur.
All partitions in the following range must be unmountable: After, but not
including, the first partition; up to, and including, the last partition.
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Feb 6, 2016 8:13 PM in response to mdwfromnycby mdwfromnyc,When I ran the first command as you posted: 0s3 before 0s2, I got this:
The given partitions are not ordered sequentially on disk
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Feb 6, 2016 9:05 PM in response to mdwfromnycby Loner T,Do you have a Time Machine backup setup for HD 2? If yes, then
1. Backup OSX and all your files - Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support .
2. Boot into Internet Recovery (Command+Opt+R) - OS X: About OS X Recovery - Apple Support .
3. Click on Utilties -> Disk Utility and Erase your internal whole disk.
4. Restore OSX and your files - Use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac - Apple Support .
This requires a separate external disk which can accommodate TM backup - Backup disks you can use with Time Machine - Apple Support .
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Feb 6, 2016 9:20 PM in response to Loner Tby mdwfromnyc,I was afraid I'd have to do that. I will work on this tomorrow. Thanks for all your help so far!!