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Erased/formatted FileVault drive
- Thread starter Jimmymck
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What do you mean you cannot do anything? If you have a backup, repartition the drive which I believe should drop the encryption and reinstall the OS.
Other then that you can try to recover the key from apple.
FileVault knowledgebase http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4790
Other then that you can try to recover the key from apple.
FileVault knowledgebase http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4790
If you formatted the drive, you should be able to do your clean install without any issue. What exactly is the problem?
Disk Utility won't format the drive without the password. Once formatted it isn't encrypted unless you chose an encrypted filesystem format. Again, you would have to enter the key to do this format and you would have said key.
Disk Utility won't format the drive without the password. Once formatted it isn't encrypted unless you chose an encrypted filesystem format. Again, you would have to enter the key to do this format and you would have said key.
I think you are going to need to boot from another partition of some sort, like a USB key... to get to that drive and reformat it. Do you have a Time Machine backup maybe you can boot to? Or a bootable USB key?
Do you have access to another Lion or Mountain Lion Mac you could use with this utility and a 1GB (or larger) USB key to make a bootable key.
Once you boot from the USB key, you should be able to select the drive (like 1TB Seagate or whatever) and erase the entire drive, then start over.
I think what you are seeing there is the remains of the encrypted core storage volume created by FV2.
As you have no doubt realized now, you should have unencrypted FV2 before you did this.
Do you have access to another Lion or Mountain Lion Mac you could use with this utility and a 1GB (or larger) USB key to make a bootable key.
Once you boot from the USB key, you should be able to select the drive (like 1TB Seagate or whatever) and erase the entire drive, then start over.
I think what you are seeing there is the remains of the encrypted core storage volume created by FV2.
As you have no doubt realized now, you should have unencrypted FV2 before you did this.
What specifically from that thread did you do? That thread is not clear to me what the solution is. Just curious.
I did this. It went away.
Terminal:
diskutil list
Find for the disk you want to format disk0, disk1, disk2,...
Disk 0 is usually the one you are booting your os x so dont use that
I closed all mounted virtual volumes
name: partition name
JHFS+: format type
diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ name disk2
Terminal:
diskutil list
Find for the disk you want to format disk0, disk1, disk2,...
Disk 0 is usually the one you are booting your os x so dont use that
I closed all mounted virtual volumes
name: partition name
JHFS+: format type
diskutil eraseDisk JHFS+ name disk2
Heh... half the lessons I have learned were from screwing things all up!
FV2 does something odd to the recovery partition that makes the entire drive look like a logical volume. This screenshot of DU on my system does not even show the physical drive.
