Catalina Partition 28gb

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Catalina Partition 28gb

Firstly, let me apologise. I'm a newbie to apple computing, I'm sure I will be asking stupid questions. I along with lots of others have just updated to Catalina, HOWEVER, I have somehow managed to install it on a 28gb partition which I am unable to move my 500gb of data from my Time Machine to (obviously). I am looking to either format the hd and start afresh with a clean install or merge any and all partitions on my HD.

I would appreciate any advice, as a newbie lots of hand holding through the process would be greatly appreciated.

iMac Line (2012 and Later)

Posted on Oct 9, 2019 5:42 AM

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Loner T

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Oct 9, 2019 2:30 PM in response to Brian3202

Can you boot into Internet Recovery - About macOS Recovery - Apple Support? If you can, click on Utilities -> Terminal, and post the output of

diskutil list

See Posting Text Output in macOS Recovery Con… - Apple Community for details.

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Brian3202 Author

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Oct 12, 2019 4:18 AM in response to Loner T

Loner you were right, the drive was fractured. Once I had corrected this I merely did a backup restore and I am all good now.

Thank you for all your help

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Brian3202 Author

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Oct 9, 2019 11:47 AM in response to Loner T

Loner, hopefully this is what you’re after.

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Brian3202 Author

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Oct 9, 2019 1:11 PM in response to Loner T

thank you for your patience

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Loner T

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Oct 9, 2019 6:33 AM in response to Brian3202

What is the year/model of your Mac (do not post the serial number)?

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Brian3202 Author

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Oct 9, 2019 7:43 AM in response to Loner T

Hi, I’m at work responding from memory. 21.5” 2017 machine

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Loner T

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Oct 9, 2019 8:30 AM in response to Brian3202

Can you post the output of

diskutil list

when you have access to the iMac? Also, confirm the year/model of the iMac.

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Loner T

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Oct 9, 2019 12:17 PM in response to Brian3202

Based on your screen shot, your iMac should have a Fusion drive. It is currently split. If you have Time Machine backup of all your data, we can rebuild the Fusion drive in Internet Recovery.

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