Samsung SSD T5

[dennisfcampbell]

external ssd will not partition, can create no recovery drive for sierria (using carbon copy cloner) to create boot drive on imac late 2015... utilities partition greyed out on both imac and lap top even after reformating. says t5 partition scheme incompatible with mac osx intel.....any work arounds ????

 

[Cory Cooper]

Hello,

I assume macOS is installed on the external SSD? It may be because the Samsung SSD is using their T5 partitioning...not sure if you can change that.

I would drop a line to Bombich and ask them, as they are VERY knowledgeable and responsive. Mike Bombich actually used to work for Apple.

C

 

[dennisfcampbell]

hey cory how are you , thanks for the reply.....
have imac w/ 2 externals, back up and Sierra ssd boot, boot is failing,( disk warrior cant replace directory due to damaged drive ) ....got T5 to replace imac external but when copied, drop down stated that the partition scheme was not compatible with apple intel osx and im left with data storage not a boot. im thinking repartition T5 but utilities is not allowing it, the only thing i could do was erase and reformat the T5 which was done twice..... perhaps due to Samsungs T5 versatile applications the architecture is storage only with the apple osx....
either samsung is hiding the fact or im missing something .....

 

[Cory Cooper]

I am good but very busy, thanks.

Yeah, looks like the Samsung T5 is meant more for a data drive than a boot drive as you stated.

I did find this, but proceed at your own risk:
Formatting a Samsung T5 SSD to APFS

C

 

[dennisfcampbell]

Cory,
reformatted w/ guid enabled and recovery is now installed in new T5
thanks
D.

 

[Cory Cooper]

Excellent! Glad it's resolved.

Be well,

C