I wanted to do a clean install and repartition my iMac running 10.8. It has 2 partitions. I booted from the recovery disk, went to Disk Utility and erased the two partitions. However, when I tried to change to a single partition got the error message "cannot unmount disk."
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
Macbook Pro running on OSX Mavericks is having problems.
Today I turned my Mac on, and it started up with a loading wheel and a loading bar. When the loading bar finished, the Mac turned itself off. I tried many times, same happened every time. I then went into OSX Recovery, started repairing Macintosh HD, but the error message saying "Disk Utility can't repair Macintosh HD" came up and now I don't now what to do.
Is there any way I can back up my files in this situation? Is there any way I can repair the disk without having to erase all data and reinstalling OSX? Or do I really need to bring it to a Apple Store for repair?
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MacBook Pro, OS X Mavericks (10.9.4)
I have a Macbook pro 17" (2011) running Mavericks with a Crucial 960Gb SSD and a 750Gb WDC in the optical bay. My ssd is divided into 710 Gb to OS X and 182 Gb to Windows 7 Bootcamp. All was well until the other day when the OS X partition failed to boot. I got the grey screen and the very slow progress bar which after 15 minutes powered the machine off. The Bootcamp partion continues to work without issues. I booted from an install disk and ran disk utility. The OS X partition appears greyed out on the left panel. I attempt a repair disk and after a 15 minute delay it says it is unable to repair the last action being "updating boot support partitions for the volume as required". Its all backed up regularly on time machine but when I boot an install usb and attempt to restore from time machine, the OSX disk does not appear as an option. I go back into disk utility and attemp to erase/repartition the disk to start a new install but it refuses to unmount. I appear to be running out of options,
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iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9), mac hard disk and Recovery 10.9disk
My iMac has the grey screen upon turning on. When I attempt to restore OS X mavericks, there is not enough space on the recovery drive.
When I try to erase the disk, the error message says it is unable to erase.
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iMac (27-inch Late 2009)
Im trying to partition my Macintosh HD and install FCP X on the new partition, because I want to still use my Final Cut Studio when needed. I want to install MAC OS on the new partition so I can use it as a start up disk as well. I followed the instructions as directed.
I restarted my computer and held the command and "R" key. In the disk utility I selected my HD and selected 2 partitions. I named them and entered the size and selected GUID as scheme. but when i hit apply i get " Failed, cant unmount disk" how I can successfully partition my HD.
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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PowerMac G5
Mac OS X (10.4.10)
Dual Core 2.0 2x 256 Ram
Next year when snow leopard will be released I was thinking to upgrade my poor 60gb hard disk to something more probably to a 320 one, but I got one problem I lost my recovery disk and actually I don't really need it as you know Tiger is very stable.
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
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Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I just bought a Seagate Expansion drive, and it has no power button so when it has been plugged in and not in use for a while it unmounts, and then a minute or two later it auto mounts, is there any way to stop it from unmounting and automounting automatically? I would like to control it myself if its possible (id also prefer not to pull the plug each time i want to shut it off).
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MacBook Pro
I have a Western Digital 500gb external hard drive, with 2 partitions, 'KAINARC' and 'JUNGLEMAC', connected to my Intelmac (Tiger 10.4.11 via my firewire, i have connected via usb but the problem is still the same). I may have shut down the drive improperly to cause this situation.
KAINARC now appears on my desktop, but the partition of JUNGLEMAC does not. I go to disk utility and both partitions are visable, KAINARC is mounted but JUNGLEMAC is not. I cannot mount JUNGLEMAC.
When i try to verify and repair the partition I get the message:
Verify and Repair disk �JUNGLEMAC�
Error: The underlying task reported failure on exit
1 non HFS volume checked
1 volume could not be repaired because of an error
So I try to verify and repair the partition KAINARC but get this message:
Verify and Repair disk �KAINARC�
Repairing disk failed with error Could not unmount disk
So I have opened diskwarrior (unbelievably long time to start up and scan disks) in the hope of fixing the hard drive, but when i try to repair I get the error message 'unable to unmount KAINARC'.
I have tried other repair/recover programs but get the same message: 'Could not unmount disk KAINARC'. Im asuming that to fix the hard drive it has to be able to unmount KAINARC.
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MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10), 13"
So so annoyed right now. Today my 12" G4 powerbook started to become slow, lots of spinning wheel, delayed menus etc. I checked file permissions, rebooted and it just kept on getting slower. Eventually it wouldn't get past the white apple screen.
I booted off the Tiger DVD and ran disk utility to fix and repair permissions again. It wouldn't let me repair the disk as I kept getting this error:
'Repair volume failed with error could not unmount disk'
I had to reboot again, and eventually my hard disk no longer appears in Disk Utility. I tried to boot into safe mode and get this:
'"I0ATAController device blocking bus
I0ATAController device blocking bus
I0ATAController device blocking bus
I0ATAController device blocking bus
I0ATAController device blocking bus"
So now I pretty much can't do anything with it. Failed Hard Drive?
I have a MacBook Pro running Mavericks.
Recently I noticed that if I run Check Disk in Disk Utility, all the process works correctly but at the end it doesn't tell me that everything is correct (in green).
On the contrary, if I run it in recovery mode, (reboot w cmd-r), it works correctly to the end with the correct green result at the end.
I have a Buffalo Ministation 1T (as my portable hardrive), been using it for about 3 months and works perfect, nothing wrong with it at all and time machine formatted it straight away. I recently got the Samsung G3 Station 2T (as a back up to the buffalo) and Time machine says "There was an error erasing the Time Machine backup disk SAMSUN. Could Not Unmount Disk". Then in disk utility when i click erase from (MS - DOS (FAT) To (Mac OS Extended (Journaled)) it says "Volume Erase failed with the error: Could Not Unmount Disk".
Info:MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.6.8)
I've just transferred my data to a new computer and now need to erase the hard drive on my old one.. I've tried Disk Utility, increased the security, and tried 'erase' but I keep getting an error message "couldn't unmount disk". I've gone into Partitions and tried deleting the HD there as well but I get the same message. I just want to get the computer securely wiped and would like to keep Lion as the operating system.
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Macbook 2GB ram, Mac OS X (10.4.9)
i have a hard drive i use mostly in Windows that i lost data and want to recover it. i've played with some of the free utilities on the internet but they either take too long or aren't very good.
since Tiger reads NTFS partitions i was going to try it on my Mac Mini.
i usually use a laptop and don't have time to leave the recover running for 10 hours or more. any good free utilities out there?
How do I obtain a recovery disk for my Macbook Pro? None was supplied when bought
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
How i can create a dvd/cd recovery disk instead usb?
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MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.7.3)
I would be interested to know if updating, for example, Lion 10.7.2 to 10.7.3, or 10.7.3 to 10.7.4, also updates the System on the Lion Recovery Disk.
I thought I could find out by booting on the Recovery Disk, but there's no "About this Mac" item in this System's Apple menu.
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iMac, Mac OS X (10.7.4), Core i7, SSD, 12 GB Ram.
I have a MBP mid-2010, originally with Snow Leopard, but long since running Lion (currently the latest release, 10.7.4). When I installed Lion, I created a recovery partition on the MBP's boot disk. This was about 9 months ago. I now want to run Recovery Disk Assistant to create a recovery partition on an external disk, but when I start Recovery Disk Assistant it says: "Lion recovery could not be created"... because the recovery HD on this computer is damaged or not present...etc.
However, if I open a Terminal and run "Diskutil list", I see:
[Code]....
So, the recovery partition appears to be there. I presume Recovery Disk Assistant thinks it's damanged. However, I can hold down Alt/Option when booting my MBP and I see the recovery partition. I can even boot from the recovery partition and everything works as expected.
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MacBook Pro, mid-2010 MBP running Mac OS 10.7.4
I just got an apple ibook g4 from a pawn shop. But it did not come with a recovery disk. The master password is still on there and I don't know it. What should I do? Who ever had it before me did not clear everything off of it.
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MacPro, Mac OS X (10.6.5), MacBook Pro 10.6.5
