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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="IWT" data-source="post: 1900369" data-attributes="member: 83420"><p>[USER=410338]@DMP21[/USER] (David),</p><p></p><p>Jake is the expert here; but I think there little - say no - real doubt that you have a Fusion Drive setup. Your very helpful screenshots show a SSD and another Hard Disk Drive.</p><p></p><p>I had, some years ago, the exact same setup. It was a bit of a nightmare to be honest. You are correct, TM does back up each separately - I recall this vividly when I bought a new iMac and transferred the data to it - there were two TM backups and they had to be integrated into my Single-Drive new iMac.</p><p></p><p>Although it worked, to this day, I still have some files in "the wrong place" simply because data was backed up to two TM backups, as you have.</p><p></p><p>Your big problem, if I may be so bold, is that only your SSD is currently being backed up and there has been no TM backup of your Hard Disk Drive since 2019.</p><p></p><p>If/when you get a new Mac and want to transfer ALL your data to the SINGLE Drive - (almost certainly a SSD because all recent Macs have an SSD) - I foresee big problems.</p><p></p><p>The data on the now "dead", or at least unusable, HDD may not be recoverable; partly because it's "full"; partly because the TM backup is so old; partly because the SSD and the HDD are no longer "on speaking terms" as it were.</p><p></p><p>That's my take on the situation. Let's see if cleverer minds than mine cane come up with a solution.</p><p></p><p>Ian</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="IWT, post: 1900369, member: 83420"] [USER=410338]@DMP21[/USER] (David), Jake is the expert here; but I think there little - say no - real doubt that you have a Fusion Drive setup. Your very helpful screenshots show a SSD and another Hard Disk Drive. I had, some years ago, the exact same setup. It was a bit of a nightmare to be honest. You are correct, TM does back up each separately - I recall this vividly when I bought a new iMac and transferred the data to it - there were two TM backups and they had to be integrated into my Single-Drive new iMac. Although it worked, to this day, I still have some files in "the wrong place" simply because data was backed up to two TM backups, as you have. Your big problem, if I may be so bold, is that only your SSD is currently being backed up and there has been no TM backup of your Hard Disk Drive since 2019. If/when you get a new Mac and want to transfer ALL your data to the SINGLE Drive - (almost certainly a SSD because all recent Macs have an SSD) - I foresee big problems. The data on the now "dead", or at least unusable, HDD may not be recoverable; partly because it's "full"; partly because the TM backup is so old; partly because the SSD and the HDD are no longer "on speaking terms" as it were. That's my take on the situation. Let's see if cleverer minds than mine cane come up with a solution. Ian [/QUOTE]
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