I find this interesting, because I may not have found out about this problem until after I loaded critical data on the drive. As such, the damage is now beyond our ability to repair- we will replace the disk drive mechanism and return the repaired unit."
After inspection I received this message: "We've completed diagnostics on your drive and regret to inform you that the hard disk inside the case has failed. Update 2: I received repair authorization from Fantom and overnighted the drive (at my expense). They said they have little to no documentation yet on my problem. Still need to take care of the 2TB.Īfter chats with Apple tier 1 & Senior Support, they've ran CaptureData and a Systems Engineer is looking into this, may take a day or two. Update 1:: I was able to successfully encrypt a 8gb Sandisk thumb drive. All come back with same error: "Unable to create a new Core Storage logical volume group." Then tried all these steps again in Recovery Mode (command+R during startup), then tried under Safe Mode (holding shift at startup), and then under another user account. I also tried a disk repair before trying again. Attempted ctrl+click> Encrypt *Drive Name* drive icon on my desktop, same error: "Unable to create a new Core Storage logical volume group.".Tried step 1 again, different error message: "Unable to create a new Core Storage logical volume group.".Selected Logical Volume in left list, then went to Partition tab, clicked on dropdown, showing "Current," changed it to 1 partition, clicked Options button, then selected GUID Partition Table radio button > clicked OK, then Apply on main window.I tried to erase and format the drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) Returned Error: "A GUID Partition Table (GPT) partitioning scheme is required.".I have a brand new (empty) 2TB Fantom Drive model: GFP2000EU3 (Hitachi Drive) Ok, so according to I should be able to encrypt ANY external drive."with ease" using FileVault 2.
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