I have an mbpro 15" with 2 hard disks:
Main: SSD with OS
Extra: Time machine backups and data
For different reasons I wanted to downgrade to Mavericks. I rebooted with cmd+r and went to time machine backups. Selected from the Extra HD and selected the Main to restore to. Insert Filevault PW, etc, next, etc. I clicked 'restore' and then it gave me an error: "cannot restore" Without any specifics.
Rebooted and tried again but this time I didn't see my Main. I selected the time machine backup, because the Extra hard disk is there. But I couldn't choose Main as a restore point!
I checked with disk utility:
Both HD's are there. But it seems the partition dissapeared on my Main. I can't repartitions or format, the options aren't there.
Verify and repair disk didn't mention anything.
Who can help me restore to Mavericks? If not possible, restoring to yosemite is fine too, as long as I can use my Mac!
This is the output:
**-bash-3.2# diskutil cs list**
CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
|
+-- Logical Volume Group 5B8350BF-20EF-4199-82E6-129EFF19E9EB
=========================================================
Name: Macintosh HD
Status: Online
Size: 255200755712 B (255.2 GB)
Free Space: 254855766016 B (254.9 GB)
|
+-< Physical Volume 907FCDE2-0C62-4951-A39E-36F19244FDB7
----------------------------------------------------
Index: 0
Disk: disk0s2
Status: Online
Size: 255200755712 B (255.2 GB)
**-bash-3.2# diskutil list**
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *256.1 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage 255.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_partition_scheme *1.3 GB disk1
1: Apple_partition_map 30.7 KB disk1s1
2: Apple_HFS OS X Base System 1.3 GB disk1s2
/dev/disk2
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *750.2 GB disk2
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk2s1
2: Apple_HFS Hitachi 449.8 GB disk2s2
3: Apple_HFS time machine 299.9 GB disk2s3
/dev/disk3
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *5.2 MB disk3
/dev/disk4
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk4
/dev/disk5
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk5
/dev/disk6
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk6
/dev/disk7
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk7
/dev/disk8
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk8
/dev/disk9
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *6.3 MB disk9
/dev/disk10
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *2.1 MB disk10
/dev/disk11
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *1.0 MB disk11
/dev/disk12
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk12
/dev/disk13
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *524.3 KB disk13
/dev/disk14
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *1.0 MB disk14
/dev/disk15
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: untitled *6.3 MB disk15
-bash-3.2#
Best Answer
Basically your
CoreStorage Volume Group
got corrupted.Usually a simple
CoreStorage Volume Group
looks like this:Your LVG is missing a
Logical Volume Family
and aLogical Volume
.Terminal
and enter following command at the Terminal prompt:diskutil cs list
diskutil cs delete UUID
In your case:
diskutil cs delete 5B8350BF-20EF-4199-82E6-129EFF19E9EB
This will delete your corrupted CoreStorage volume and reformat it as an unencrypted HFS+ volume. Quit Terminal
Disk Utility
and format/partition the internal drive.Choose
Mac OS Extended (Journaled)
and GUID partition table (available with theoption
button). QuitDisk Utility
.Time Machine
backup drive.Restore from Time Machine Backup
and recover your old system