Cannot delete/erase mac mini raid partition
Hi There
I have a Mac mini that had OSX Leopard Server on it. We installed Lion Server on it when it first came out and put it in to a small school and gave them all the details. They were having issues and asked us to sort it all out. We had no passwords so decided to re-install the OS.
This was not a very good idea. On an internet restore it keeps stalling and telling me that I need to go to the disk utility and delete the main partition. When I do this it has the two 500GB drives combined to a master stripped drive. However everything is locked and will not allow me to make any adjustments.
Is there any way to unlock these drives and allow me to reset all the partitions and Raid configuration?
regards
I have a Mac mini that had OSX Leopard Server on it. We installed Lion Server on it when it first came out and put it in to a small school and gave them all the details. They were having issues and asked us to sort it all out. We had no passwords so decided to re-install the OS.
This was not a very good idea. On an internet restore it keeps stalling and telling me that I need to go to the disk utility and delete the main partition. When I do this it has the two 500GB drives combined to a master stripped drive. However everything is locked and will not allow me to make any adjustments.
Is there any way to unlock these drives and allow me to reset all the partitions and Raid configuration?
regards
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The mac mini server edition does not have an optical drive. However the OS is on a USB stick and I can boot from that. From this I can get into the disk utility which I believe is the only place to perform the actions required. I have listed the proble that I get from the disk utility above.
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WOW. Thanks dlethe.
This is the type of answer that I was hoping for. I have yet to try it out. But when you say "blow away" I presume you mean erase everything. If that's the case then this is exactly what I want to do. I want to start totally afresh.
This is the type of answer that I was hoping for. I have yet to try it out. But when you say "blow away" I presume you mean erase everything. If that's the case then this is exactly what I want to do. I want to start totally afresh.
Yes, I mean write zeros to the disk, technically that doesn't mean erase everything, it means to overwrite the 1s with zeros.
it lools like something went terribly wrong. I would recommend to boot from DVD and repartition drives and recreate mirror.