Check with the third-party software vendor to check for compatibility with a Fusion Drive. Third party disk utilities may or may not work with a Fusion Drive.
A Fusion Drive will not appear as a Target Disk Mode volume or startup disk on earlier versions of Mac OS X.Ĭan third-party disk utilities be used with a Fusion Drive? Yes, but the system attempting to mount the Fusion Drive in Target Disk Mode must have OS X Mountain Lion version 10.8.2 or later. Reduce the size of the partition you are trying to create and try again.Ĭan a Fusion Drive be mounted on another system in Target Disk Mode? The partition you are trying to create has a larger size than free space available on the hard disk drive. I receive a “disk is too small for this operation” message when creating a partition. Note: Boot Camp Assistant is not supported at this time on 3TB hard drive configurations. Then, double-click Boot Camp Assistant and follow the onscreen instructions. If creating a Windows partition, use Boot Camp Assistant to create it, not Disk Utility.
You can create either a Mac OS X partition or a Windows partition. You can create one additional partition on the hard disk with Fusion Drive. The new partition is a separate volume that is physically located on the hard disk drive. The additional partition is not part of Fusion Drive.
If I create a hard disk partition is it part of Fusion Drive? Once you add the partition, the “plus” symbol in Disk Utility to add additional partitions will be grayed out. Using Disk Utility, you can add one partition to the hard disk on Fusion Drive. Fusion Drive is designed to work with an internal hard disk drive and internal flash storage.Ĭan I add a partition to the hard disk with Fusion Drive? When ordered with a Fusion Drive, your iMac or Mac mini is pre-configured.Ĭan external USB, FireWire, or Thunderbolt hard drives be added to Fusion Drive?Īn external drive cannot be used as part of a Fusion Drive volume. Fusion Drive manages all this automatically in the background. As a result you’ll enjoy shorter startup times, and as the system learns how you work you’ll see faster application launches and quicker file access. You now have two working Macs with identical files on them - from there it is up to you.Presented as a single volume on your Mac, Fusion Drive automatically and dynamically moves frequently used files to Flash storage for quicker access, while infrequently used items move to the hard disk.
Instead I recommend you just clone the hard disk from machine to machine.ĭownload SuperDuper! (free license is sufficient, but recommend you pay for full license, it is a wise investment).Ĭlone the disk on the good mac to the new hard disk. Set one of them to TargetDisk mode, boot the other one off the good disk (I don't think it matters which is used here?).īecause your other Mac has 10.5 Leopard you don't have App Store and so can't easily get Mountain Lion (even assuming the failed machine is compatible). If you have a firewire cable the easiest solution would be to cable the two Macs together. (This is where you should wish you had backups with SuperDuper! which creates fully bootable clones of your hard disk).Īssuming that you don't, you need to use your other Mac (note that the installation disks from another Mac will not work in yours - only purchased OS X disks can be used in any machine). If the disk is unreadable then recovery disk will not work - and when you put in a new blank disk it won't be on that one either, so the recovery procedure outlined will not work here.