Re: Pny Disk Utility
Canumil Flowers
Ok here is the deal, after searching for a long time and getting nowhere this is what you have to do. Over on the left side in Disk Utility make sure you are on the external selection (or whichever you need to be). Select the top selection that has the drop down arrow beside of it and NOT what is off set just below it. Then go to erase button and click it. Before you do anything else go down to "SCHEME" and select GUID Partition Map. Once you have made that selection go back up to format and when you open it back up what the Encryption option will be there. I will include some pictures. Good luck this was not a hard one but very aggravating to find the answer. Hope this helps someone
Ziatron: I recently upgraded to El Capitan, and I just ran into the same issue with a Verbatim 16gb 'STORE N GO' USB drive, which I wanted to encrypt. The Disk Utility gui showed no partion on drive, and there was no partitioning option available in the gui (partition button was greyed out). So I erased it using the gui; and formatted it as OS X Extended (Journaled). There was no option to erase it and reformat it as OS X Extended (Journaled) Encrypted. After the USB drive was erased, no partition was shown in the gui. I checked the USB drive using the diskutil 'list' command, and it showed no partitioning. So I then erased the USB drive using the diskutil 'eraseDrive' command, formatting it as JHFS+. I checked the USB drive with diskutil, and it showed that it had been partitioned. Then I checked it with the gui, for ha-ha's, and found that the USB drive still did not show any partitioning. I was able to encrypt the drive by selecting it in a Finder window, and right-clicking on it. Finder did not show a partition to encrypt. I selected the drive itself.
I'm having the exact same problem as the original poster. However in my disk utilities I am ONLY showing the USB flash drive in the sidebar with NO partitions shown, Just the drive only. None of the drop down choices include ...."Encrypted"
Compare the file contents list of the package in 12.04 with the one in 12.10. It appears that palimpsest has been renamed to gnome-disks, without leaving a symbolic link behind. I'm surprised to see that last part has happened.
Hey there hoping you can help. Soooo I didn't follow instructions properly when I was in disk utility to erase my hard drive (to do a factory reset) and accidentally erased the operating system underneath the hard drive (on the left hand side of menu). So I thought I would try to erase the hard drive after that but comes up with error. So then I went back to utilities menu and tried to "reinstall macOS" but then the hard drive is greyed out and says it's locked. I also tried partitioning the drive, no idea if that is even an option to fix it but it says it's too small. See images if I need more explanation, although now after I deleted the OS it now says "OS X Base System".
Won't work since you can't erase the drive you booted from. The Recovery Partition is after all a part of that drive. After ensuring the Mac has Internet connectivity, start up in Internet Recovery Mode so it boots from Apple's servers and the drive is fully accessible. Hold down Option Command R prior to startup chime. Will take awhile depending on your connectivity speed.
Thank you to everyone for their help, but nothing was working - probably due to my failure to understand! I did some more researching, I tried these steps below - not sure which parts made it work but I thought I would add it to this thread in case anyone is here trying to find the answer to the same question:
I gave up trying to erase the HD and reinstall OS in the Mac OS Utility because neither of those worked. I also had tried getting a bootable copy of OS on a USB and that didn't work either. However I was able to restore from time machine back up so I did that. However when that was done, I still had no luck doing either erase or reinstall.
Then I went back to the utility, it still didn't let me erase the HD, but it did let me "reinstall OS" so I did that. Then when that was done I went back into the utility and it finally let me do the HD erase. So then I did "reinstall OS" again and now I'm sorted!
Thanks for your help, it's desperately needed :) ok so I had no idea about the Internet recovery mode, so I read you enter it by cmd + opt + R at start up but it keeps taking me to disk utility. So is my laptop too old for internet recovery? So then what do I do?
did look at "reinstall macOS" again just to see what would happen and this time it's come up with two drives: "OS X Base System" and "Recovery HD", the recovery is still locked and when I clicked on OS Base it says it's not formatted as Mac OS ext... "use disk utility to enable journaling or reformat the disk".
Going off your idea, I suppose you would suggest putting it on a USB and boot from that? I will give it a go, but let me know if I'm wasting my time or if I'm going to blow up my laptop doing that haha ;)
Thanks for help Lexiepex, at that stage no, it wasn't working, I tried to reinstall OS but it kept giving me an error message so that's when I had to do time machine because everything else was giving me error messages. It wasn't until I loaded the time machine and then switch off spotlight/time machine was I then able to do the reinstall OS.
Just installed the beta of High Sierra on a mid-2014 macbook pro. System booted successfully first time. I routinely check that the FS has survived the upgrade process, so fired up disk utility and ran first aid on my newly converted APFS internal add (pci-e). Got the warning about the system being locked whilst this happened, then it hu June'sng at "checking the object map". I tried to fire up the feedback assistant and the system has now locked completely. Going to have to try a force reboot.....yuk! :-( Will report back later. Cheers Jon
So I was able to reboot with no apparent problems, however, along with others I've noticed pretty poor performance on occasion - some of which must be due to spotlight re-indexing on the "new" disk (now APFS). Guess High Sierra might not be ready for the primetime just yet! That said, I am hopeful that this release will become the new Snow Leopard, and clean up some of the rough edges of Sierra.
So Disk Utility failed in exactly the same way when trying to run first aid. So I had to perform a forced shutdown and then rebooted into the recovery console: started disk utility and attempted to run first aid after mounting the SSD. It reported that the hard drive was broken (can't remember the exact message). Rebooting the system got me back to a "working"(?) install of High Sierra.
My concerns here are whether (1) APFS is broken, and the tools designed to fix it aren't working, (2) my SDD really is knackered (there was no sign of this with the previously working Sierra install), or worst of all (3) APFS is silently trashing my SDD in the background.
This is expected behavior, and the dialog box that pops up informs you of this. The machine is supposed to appear "hung" because the boot volume is competely locked, and apps will not respond. I just left my machine alone for about 10 minutes and it finished, but while it was running the machine was unresponsive.
You are about to run First Aid against the volume that is currently booted. In order to run First Aid, the boot volume must be frozen. This will result in apps not responding during the operation. This is completely normal and apps will begin responding with the operation has completed."
Nope. Couldn't bring up the Force Quit Applications using Command Option Esc either. I kinda always expect different behavior like this with a Beta 1, so I just waited, and came back in like 10 minutes. It eventually finished.
I don't think this is working as expected. I ran first aid, it froze as before, and I left it "running" (the mouse was responsive) and the MBP rebooted by itself without warning (crashed?). Upon rebooting the progress bar moved to around 70% and has been stuck there for 30mins....either my SSD is toast, or there is something seriously wrong with disk utility (first aid) on High Sierra (Beta 2)...
it looks like you can fix the fack_apfs failing problem, by deleting the volume snapshots (when the system is booted), I ran the commands as root (sudo -s), but I'm not sure that was necessary. Then I rebooted into single user mode (cmd+s) and ran the file system check manually: fsck_apfs -y /dev/rdisk1s1
note that whilst this may enable a manual fsck to work in single user mode, so provide confidence that the file system is probably okay, the disk utility (first aid) still fails in exactly the same way as before,
Certainly, checks are bugged in some environments. For me, at least twice with 17A291j fsck_apfs(8) has been unable to complete a check of a locked-down file system. In that situation it's necessary to force off the Mac.
I rebooted from a USB installer, and wiped my Macintosh HD (ssd on mId-2014 Macbook Pro), when reformatting with APFS (encrypted) try as I might I could not get the installer to work. With regular APFS (*no* encryption) it installed fine, and guess what First Aid now works perfectly.
Same situation here. High Sierra Public Beta (build 17A306f) on 2014 MBP. Clean install to unencrypted APFS volume followed by encryption via FileVault. Upon completion, ran First Aid in Disk Utility, and after a few seconds, it eventually hung on "Checking the fsroot tree." The mouse pointer moves around, but nothing else responds. The clock (iStat Menus, not the system clock) is frozen. Waited about two hours before finally power-cycling. Rebooted fine.
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