- Mac Mini Boot Camp Fusion Drive Repair
- Mac Mini Boot Camp Fusion Drivers
- Mac Mini Boot Camp Fusion Driver
- Mac Mini Boot Camp Fusion Drive 2017
Aug 31, 2017 Step 34: Click the Lock in the bottom left-hand corner, and enter your Mac’s administrator password. Step 35: Select the Boot Camp Windows option, and click the Restart button to reboot the Mac and boot into Windows Boot Camp. Step 36: Upon reboot, you should see the Windows logo and initial setup sequences.
- A Fusion Drive is two separate drives ‘fused’ together. It contains a Serial ATA drive (that’s a regular hard drive with a spinning plate inside) and a solid-state drive.
- Nov 27, 2012 Note that this drive is 1 TB in size. As of this writing, Boot Camp only supports drives up to 2.2 TB in size. Next I’ll be posting an article about how to get Windows installed on a 3 TB or larger drive. This will apply to both Fusion and standard hard drives.
- Apple’s new Boot Camp software fully supports it. NewerTech miniStack: A great drive even if you don’t own a Mac mini, Dan Knight, Low End Mac Reviews, 2006.02.08. Although it’s designed to match the Mac mini, the miniStack hard drive can add USB 2.0 and FireWire ports to any Mac while keeping your fast external hard drive cool.
- Nov 05, 2012 Will boot camp affect my fusion drive? I am a techie so don't be afraid to use technical terms. I want to buy a Mac mini with a fusion drive. I also want to portion the HDD to 3/4 OS X and 1/4 windows. If I do this, will it also portion my SSD? Because I want to keep all of the flash for OS X because I will use it a lot more than windows.
Fusion Drive, a storage option on some iMac and Mac mini computers, combines a hard drive and flash storage in a single volume for improved performance and storage capacity. If your Fusion Drive appears as two drives instead of one in the Finder, it's no longer working as a Fusion Drive. This can happen after replacing either drive of your Fusion Drive, or using software to intentionally split them into separate volumes.
You can continue using the two drives independently, or follow these steps to regain the benefits of having the single logical volume of a Fusion Drive.
Before you begin
If you're not sure that your Mac was configured with a Fusion Drive, or that the drive has been split:
Mac Mini Boot Camp Fusion Drive Repair
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Mac Mini Boot Camp Fusion Drivers
- Disconnect any external storage devices from your Mac.
- Choose Apple menu > About This Mac, then click Storage.
- If you see a drive labeled Fusion Drive, your Fusion Drive is working and this article doesn't apply to you.
- If you have a Fusion Drive that has been split, you should see two drives. One of them should be labeled Flash Storage, with a capacity of 24GB, 32GB, or 128GB. The other should be at least 1TB.
Use Terminal to create a Fusion Drive again
These steps permanently delete all data stored on the drives that make up your Fusion Drive. Make sure that you have a backup before continuing.
If you're using macOS Mojave or later
- Turn on your Mac, then immediately press and hold Command-R to start up from macOS Recovery. Release the keys when you see the Apple logo or spinning globe.
- When you see the macOS Utilities window, choose Utilities > Terminal from the menu bar.
- Type
diskutil resetFusion
in the Terminal window, then press Return. - Type
Yes
(with a capital Y) when prompted, then press Return. - When Terminal indicates that the operation was successful, quit Terminal to return to the macOS Utilities window.
- Choose Reinstall macOS, then follow the onscreen instructions to reinstall the Mac operating system. Your Mac restarts from your Fusion Drive when done.
Mac Mini Boot Camp Fusion Driver
If you're using macOS High Sierra or earlier
Mac Mini Boot Camp Fusion Drive 2017
- Turn on your Mac, then immediately press and hold Command-R to start up from macOS Recovery. Release the keys you see the Apple logo or spinning globe.
- When you see the macOS Utilities window, choose Utilities > Terminal from the menu bar.
- Type
diskutil list
in the Terminal window, then press Return. - Terminal displays a table of data about your drives. In the IDENTIFIER column, find the identifier for each of the two internal, physical drives that make up your Fusion Drive. Usually the identifiers are disk0 and disk1. One of them should be 128GB or less in size. The other at least 1TB in size.
- Type the following command, replacing identifier1 and identifier2 with the identifiers you found in the previous step. Then press Return.Example: diskutil cs create Macintosh HD disk0 disk1
- If you get a disk unmounting error, enter
diskutil unmountDisk identifier
, using the first identifier you gathered previously. Then enter same command again using the second identifier. Then retry the command in step 5. - Type
diskutil cs list
, then press Return. - Terminal displays additional data about your drives (volumes). Find the string of numbers that appears after ”Logical Volume Group” for the volume named Macintosh HD. It's a number like 8354AFC3-BF97-4589-A407-25453FD2815A.
Example:
+-- Logical Volume Group 8354AFC3-BF97-4589-A407-25453FD2815A
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| Name: Macintosh HD - Type the following command, replacing logicalvolumegroup with the number you found in the previous step. Then press Return.Example: diskutil cs createVolume 8354AFC3-BF97-4589-A407-25453FD2815A jhfs+ Macintosh HD 100%
- When Terminal indicates that the operation was successful, quit Terminal to return to the macOS Utilities window.
- Choose Reinstall macOS, then follow the onscreen instructions to reinstall the Mac operating system. Your Mac restarts from your Fusion Drive when done.