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• How can I perform a clean installation of Mac OS x for my iMAC, retina 5K late 2014 with drive of Fusion with the intact Recovery HD partition?

  How can I perform a clean installation of Mac OS x for my iMAC, retina 5K late 2014 with drive of Fusion with the intact Recovery HD partition?

  Pure how to install OSX on a Fusion drive and keep the recovery disc function

  These instructions assume that your iMAC partitions or file systems has been damaged and you want to restore to the way most efficiency with fusion drive and the recovery partition, similar to what was built in the factory.

  These instructions work for the iMAC, retina 5K end 2014 version comes with OSX Yosemite. The scores of major drive of the 128 G SSD and 3 TB of HARD drive has been configured as a logical drive (merger by car).

  WARNING: These instructions here are shared for interest only. Readers to take their own risk by following these instructions. The author is not responsible for any damage caused by following these instructions.

  This is the target disk partitions, and the configuration that we want to achieve.

  Disk0 is the 128 GB SSD - solid state drive and holds the start of the partition (disk0s3)

  Disk1 is the 3.0 to HDD - mechanical transmission and holds the Recovery HD partition.

  There are two EFI partitions to partition table GUID on both hard drives (disk0s1, disk1s1).

  Disk space remaining (partition disk0s2 and disk1s2) are used to create the disc of Fusion 3.1 to named "Macintosh HD".

  / dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * GB 121,3 disk0

  1: disk0s1 EFI EFI 209.7 MB

  2: Apple_CoreStorage GB LVG 121.0 disk0s2

  3: disk0s3 Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134,2 MB

  / dev/disk1 (internal, physical):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: GUID_partition_scheme * 3.0 to disk1

  1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1

  2: disk1s2 Apple_CoreStorage TB 3.0 LVG

  3: disk1s3 Apple_Boot Recovery 650.0 MB HD

  / dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):

  #: NAME SIZE TYPE IDENTIFIER

  0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD + 3.1 TB disk2

  Logical volume on disk0s2, disk1s2

  0D807F6E-FB7C-418F-AAF4-EF3EA3525D10

  Fusion unencrypted drive

  Here's how we do it.

  • A. clean reinstallation of Mac OS x.
  • 1. make sure that you back up all your data on the hard drive using Time Machine or other means. The following procedure will delete all data.
  • 2. create the OSX install USB, insert it to the MAC workstation.
  • 3. given that us will be operated on the internal trunk of the reader of the Mac, it must start on OSX install USB (see Y.).
  • 4. in the menu at the top of the screen, select disk utilities.
  • 5. turn highlighted the volume of disk Fusion called "Macintosh HD." Click clear to clean.
  • 6. If his success, then go ahead to install OSX new to that partition, as usual.
  • 7. otherwise, if it does not, that means fusion drive has been damaged.
  • 8 follow the instructions below to fix it.
  • . B. Split disc Fusion in the physical hard disks
  • 1. Since us will be operated on the internal drive of the Mac trunk, assumes that we already have boot up OSX install USB drive (see Y.).
  • 2. in the menu at the top of the screen, select utilities and Terminal.
  • 3. on the screen of the terminal type:
  • Cs diskutil list.
  • You will see something similar to the screen below.
  • 4 copy the long string after Logical Volume and replace the UUID with it in the following command to delete the logical volume of the disc fusion (aka coreStorage of logical volume):
  • diskutil deletevolume cs UUID
  • For example:
  • diskutil deletevolume E59B5A99-F8C1-461A-AE54-6EC11B095161 cs
  • 5 copy the long string after the logical volume group and replace the UUID with it in the following command to remove the drive (aka coreStorage) fusion:
  • diskutil cs remove UUID
  • p. ex. diskutil cs remove E03B3F30-6A1B-4DCD-9E14-5E927BC3F5DC
  • 6. at this stage, the fusion drive has been deleted, and hardsisk SSD and mechanical hard drive will be reappear in diskutil or separate records.
  • 7. If step 5 or 6 takes more than 30 minutes to complete, this means that the fusion drive has been corrupted. You can follow the commands below to clear the table to partition the hard way. First command clears the SSD drive, second command erases the HARD drive.
  • The command does not return a response, after 1 minute, press Ctrl + Z to complete orders. 1 minute is enough data to code and erase the partition table on the disk.
  • cat/etc/random >/dev/disk0
  • cat/etc/random >/dev/disk1
  • . C install a new copy of Mac OS x for the hard drive HDD and tested this disk partition hard recovery work.
  • 1. go on diskutil to create a partition called Macintosh HD HDD hard drive using all the space there.
  • 2 do the same with the mechanical hard drive.
  • 3. follow the usual procedure to boot from the installation of OSX USB and install a new copy of Mac OS x hard disk SSD.
  • 4. This will create the correct priming of the partitions, recovery hard drive partitions and PSX partitions hard disk HDD.
  • 5. once the installation is complete, test if OSX may start successfully, but no need to go through the initial MAC OS x didn't put in place that we're going to waste this and do the installation again later.
  • 6. we must now test if the recovery hard drive partition works.
  • 7. reboot for hard drive recovery (see X - by pressing command and R at the same time during boot right after that you hear sound start and release only a few seconds after you see the apple logo and the progress bar for loading...)
  • 8. it is important to test and make sure that the partition of hard drive recovery.
  • D. recreate the fusion drive
  • 1 since us will be operated on the internal trunk of the reader of the Mac, it must start on OSX install USB (see Y.).
  • 2. in the menu at the top of the screen, select utilities and Terminal.
  • 3
  . on the screen of the terminal type:
• diskutil list.
• You should find that we have a list of disk group hard physical volume only, no logic here still.
• 4. you will see something similar to the screen below.
• 5. search for the largest partition on the SSD hard drive, which should be close to the maximum size of HDD to the SSD (121 G, for example) and mark the name of the device, this will usually be something like/dev/disk0s2
• 6. search the largest disk partition mechanical forming fusion with the SSD hard drive. This should be close to the maximum size of the mechanical hard drive (for example 3 TB) hard disk and mark the name of the device, this will usually be something like/dev/disk1s2
• 7
. Now let's create the merger in car (group alias logical volume) in the Terminal, type: diskutil cs create nom_lecteur driveIDs
• The number of the driveIDs is unlimited, it may be a number of discs, or a number of disk partitions. Always put the faster discs first, for example for our SSD disk0s2
• For example:
• diskutil cs create fusiondrive disk0s2 disk1s2
• diskutil - the version of disk utility command line.
  cs - This calls for Core Storage, which is necessary for the merger.
  create - creates a basic storage group.
  nom_lecteur - is the name of the drive and how you want that he
• appear in the disk utility (not the Finder - that comes later). You can call it what you like; in our example, we named our Fusion table "Fusion".

driveIDs - Here is the Player IDs of the readers you want as part of your Fusion table, separated by a space. In our example, they are 'disk0' and 'disk1', but it may be different in your configuration.
• It is important that the faster hard drive appears first in the command, which in our case the disk0s2 (a partition in the SSD). In this way, drive fusion will use this disk as primary and the cache. The second disc in the command, in this case disk1s2 (a partition on the HARD disk). The secondary disk (HARD drive) is used to store less frequently used files.  Otherwise, the fusion drive performance will be worse that it is designed for.
• 8. you will see something like below appear on the screen:
• Creation Volume logical storage of kernel
• Move isk0s2 storage of carrots
• Disk1s2 of switching for the storage of carrots
• Waiting for logical volume group appear
• Discovered the new group of logical volumes 'DBFEB690-107B-4EA6-905B-2971D10F5B53 '.
• Store LVG UUID: DBFEB690-107B-4EA6-905B-2971D10F5B53
• Finished CoreStorage operation
• 9 copy to the bottom of the string after "Discovering new Volume Logic Group" using the command + C
• 10. next, create the partition of the merger (alias logical volume) drive named "Macintosh HD".
• In the Terminal, type: diskutil createVolume groupString jhfs cs + size volumeName
• For example:
• Diskutil createVolume DBFEB690-107B-4EA6-905B-2971D10F5B53 jhfs cs + 'Macintosh HD' 100%
• diskutil - once again, this is the version of disk utility command line.
• cs - called the basic storage functions, which are necessary for this arrangement.
• createVolume - this is the command to create the storage area real for the reader who is represented by an icon on your desktop.
• groupstring - this is the long alphanumeric string you copied in the previous step. It identifies the table you created such as getting a volume placed on it.
• jhfs + -the format of the disc. It is Apple (journaled) extended Format, which is recommended for drives with an operating system installed on it.
• VolumeName - the actual name of the volume, how it should appear under the icon. If there is a space in the name, you must put the full name in quotes ("name") or put a slash before the (name Drive\) space. In our example, we made these, naming our volume "Macintosh HD".
• size : this is the size of the volume. In our example, we had a 1.1 TB drive. We used '1100g' to describe what 1100 GB (1.1 TB to base 10). Otherwise, we could have also used 1.1 T or even 100% as a size.
• 11. go to diskutil to verify that you can see this new partition on the list.
• 12. test by erasing all the data from it.
• 13. then you can go ahead to start on the USB drive to install OSX and install a new copy of Mac OS x on it.
• 14. This will allow you to keep the recovery disk feature.
• X. how Prime to recover partition
• Press and hold the command and button R set immediately after hearing the bells to boot.
• Only release it 2 seconds after you see the Apple logo on the screen and the progress bar for the start. This will start the partition of hard drive recovery.
• Y. how-to boot OSX install USB
• Press and hold the command and the optionkey together immediately after hearing the ringing of boot.
• Only release it 2 seconds after you see the Apple logo on the screen and it will give you a list of startup disk choice, choose the OSX install USB to boot from.

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  5. Click on the disk management icon, and you will now be in the disk management utility as shown in the figure below. This utility you can see all the partitions on your computer and format, delete, create, develop or resize them. For this tutorial, I'll extend the E: partition so that it uses the rest of the available space on the disc 1.
     
     
      
  6. To extend the partition, he just click right-click on the partition that you want to work with, and then select the Extend option. In this example, I click right on the E: partition and in the menu that appears, select Extend.

  7. A wizard appears as shown below. Press the Next button to continue.

     
  8. A new screen, shown below, is displayed allowing you to select the free space available on your local hard disks that you can use to extend the space of the selected partition. It is important to note that Windows 7 allows you to extend a volume using free space on the same drive as well as the other disks. I strongly suggest that you do not extend a volume on a disk with free space of the other. It is because if one of the disks has a hardware failure, then all data on this volume will be removed. Rather just to use the free space on a drive that contains the volume you extend
     .

     

     As discussed in step 5, for this tutorial we are going to extend my 8 GB partition (drive E :) to the total size of disk 1 using all the available space. As disk 1 is only available free space on my computer, windows 7 automatically select as shown in the image above and use the maximum amount available to extend the partition. If there were other drives with free space that they have shown during the selection available . If you want to extend the volume to a lower amount you can change in the Select the amount of space in MB: field. In the contrary case, press us the button Next .

  9. You will be now be presented with a confirmation screen. If you are sure you want to extend the volume, press the Finish button. Otherwise, press the back button to make changes or the Cancel button to cancel this operation.

  10. Once Windows 7 completed to extend the volume, you will be on the screen disk management, where you can see the amount that you have extended with the new size. An example of this is shown below.
  

  At this point, you can close the Management window of the computer that your task is completed.

  Hope this information is useful.

  Let me know if it worked.

  Thank you, and in what concerns:

  Umesh P - Microsoft Support

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• A virtual CD drive junk keeps reappearing after each start up

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  Share name resource remark

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  $           R:\                             Default share
  $           B:\                             Default share
  $           C:\                             Default share
  $           S:\                             Default share
  $           X:\                             Default share
  $           P:\                             Default share
  $           Y:\                             Default share
  $           Q:\                             Default share
  $           I:\                             Default share
  $           F:\                             Default share
  $           W:\                             Default share
  $           G:\                             Default share
  $           D:\                             Default share
  $           T:\                             Default share
  

  
  

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  -rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_1.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 285615325184 6 June 2008 DB1_2 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_2.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 1073741824 6 June 2008 DB1_3 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 363 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_3.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 142807662592 6 June 2008 DB1_4 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_4.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 128849018880 6 June 2008 DB1_5 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 367 14 Jul 22:02 DB1_5.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 37580963840 Sep 26 17:58 DB1 - flat hard
  -rw - 1 root root 337 14 Jul 22:02 DB1.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 287762808832 8 November 2008 FOO-DB1_1 - rdm.vmdk
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  -rw - 1 root root 21474836480 18 April 2009 FOO-DB1_2 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 374 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_2.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 42949672960 18 April 2009 FOO-DB1_3 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 374 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_3.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 429496729600 10 October 2009 FOO-DB1_4 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 350 10 October 2009 FOO - DB1_4.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 429496729600 10 October 2009 FOO-DB1_5 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 376 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_5.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 107374182400 18 December 2010 FOO-DB1_6 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 376 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_6.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 107374182400 18 December 2010 FOO-DB1_7 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 376 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1_7.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 161061273600 Sep 27 2008 FOO - DB1 - rdmp.vmdk
  -rw - 1 root root 374 14 Jul 22:02 FOO - DB1.vmdk

  I need to know what vmdk is used for the drive in the Windows of the client prompt. I'm afraid that I could not understand it in the vmware.log or hostd.log files.

  Thank you!

  Steve

  Hi Steve

  You cannot map the drive letter for the vmdk directly, but you can map the drive Win on a specific vm using the SCSI number

  An easy way to map the vmdk with disks of Windows is:

  On the virtual machine 'change settings', note in down all the vDisks SCSI address example (disc 1 = SCSI (0:1), 2 HDD = SCSI (2:4)))

  If you go to Windows disk management and right click the individual disks and select Properties, you will see that target and LUN ID discs

  where for 1 HDD = SCSI (0:1), 0 is target ID and LUN 1 ID and 2 HDD = SCSI (2:4), 2 is target ID and LUN 4 ID

  You map just for numbers of hard disk drive letters

  Please allow points to useful/correct answers

• Removing the virtual HARD drive / Datastore

  Hello

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  Hello

  Hello from the Canada

  Yes, you can simply delete the virtual hard disk to the Virtual Machine through 'change settings '.

  Then turn on your VM again

  Once you have your data store to save and launched, you can add it back into your virtual machine.

  Concerning

• How to enlarge VMDK?

  I have a Dell Powervault MD3000i storage offering an ESX Server 3.5 and Windows 2008 Server (functioning as a file server) on the ESX Server. Server 2008 is complete so I bought a new drive for the MD3000i extend the capacity of the data on Server 2008 drive. I followed this guide:

  http://jacobackerman.blogspot.com/2009/06/Dell-MD-3000i-expandng-virtual-disk.html

  So now (several merged physical disks in a virtual disk) drives on the MD300i show a total of 1.36 TB, but Server 2008 is only showing 1 TB of space on the data drive, it is not recognizing the new 300 GB space. After some research and asking around on other forums I learned that I need to extend the VMDK file to the new size (1.36 TB) then use windows diskpart to extend the drive. I tried to follow this tutorial:

  http://communities.VMware.com/thread/15593 (2nd post in particular)

  but I don't know the drive name or the name of fs. I looked on the VMware infrastructure client under the virtual machine settings and drives hard found3. The first is a virtual disk 60 GB in size, it is the Windows operating system, the second is the man I am interested. It's a Raw LUN mapped with these properties:

  Logic unit number physical and database mapping file:

  vmhba32:0:0:0

  DC02/DC02_2.vmdk

  Virtual device node:

  SCSI (0:1) hard disk 2

  How to expand the vmdk to see the new space?

  Hi Dexter,

  Please follow below

  Instruction.

  1.
  Right-click on the storage of data

  2.
  Click on properties

  3.
  There you can get Option to store the data to add, increase

  or Extend.

  If this problem is not solve d thanks for posting again with

  error.

  Thank you

  Philippe