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Apple Computing Products:
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Unintialized Drive "Unable to write to the last block of the device." + Size Error ?
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<blockquote data-quote="DMP21" data-source="post: 1900225" data-attributes="member: 410338"><p>Apologies for any (unintended) confusion on my part.</p><p></p><p>I did say in my very first post that I tried to erase the drive, I have still yet to succeed in doing this. The attempt at erasing my drive ST3000.... failed, see the screenshot from post #1 I have reattached for ref.</p><p></p><p>I did not mean by saying that I wanted to back up my drive that I had succeed, in fact the problem still exists.</p><p></p><p>I was in fact thinking about your suggest to try and Erase the APPLE SSD drive and not the ST3000 drive as I had unsuccessfully previously tried. But before I attempted this I wanted to create a back of my entire drive, though I have not done this previously but do have Time Machine, 12Tb working (since 2017) so I'll likely have plenty of backups. </p><p></p><p>I just wanted to have a single clean snapshot I could recall in one go should Erasing APPLE SSD not fix the unfused spinner component. I would hopefully be able to boot into Recovery mode and just select the full back up and reinstall it back to it previous state.... until I can obtain another drive... (I actually have some spare 1Tb drives I could use, just need to clear them off.)</p><p></p><p>But changing a drive is a bit more of a challenge, not tremendously, just needs some time and preparation, need to order some double sided tape to reattach the screen.</p><p></p><p>So if I have understood correctly that if this does not work I would likely have to replace the physically drive.. does that sound right?</p><p></p><p>Hope this clears this up a bit and again, sorry for the misunderstanding as I might not have made myself as clear as I could have.</p><p></p><p>Thanks again for the time and support, it's appreciated.</p><p></p><p>Hope the New Year is a great one <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DMP21, post: 1900225, member: 410338"] Apologies for any (unintended) confusion on my part. I did say in my very first post that I tried to erase the drive, I have still yet to succeed in doing this. The attempt at erasing my drive ST3000.... failed, see the screenshot from post #1 I have reattached for ref. I did not mean by saying that I wanted to back up my drive that I had succeed, in fact the problem still exists. I was in fact thinking about your suggest to try and Erase the APPLE SSD drive and not the ST3000 drive as I had unsuccessfully previously tried. But before I attempted this I wanted to create a back of my entire drive, though I have not done this previously but do have Time Machine, 12Tb working (since 2017) so I'll likely have plenty of backups. I just wanted to have a single clean snapshot I could recall in one go should Erasing APPLE SSD not fix the unfused spinner component. I would hopefully be able to boot into Recovery mode and just select the full back up and reinstall it back to it previous state.... until I can obtain another drive... (I actually have some spare 1Tb drives I could use, just need to clear them off.) But changing a drive is a bit more of a challenge, not tremendously, just needs some time and preparation, need to order some double sided tape to reattach the screen. So if I have understood correctly that if this does not work I would likely have to replace the physically drive.. does that sound right? Hope this clears this up a bit and again, sorry for the misunderstanding as I might not have made myself as clear as I could have. Thanks again for the time and support, it's appreciated. Hope the New Year is a great one :) [/QUOTE]
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