Delete or Merge a partition

[idomeneas]

Hi,

I had a bootcamp partition but in some way it got transformed to another kind of partition and now all I want is to delete every partition except the main one (Which runs MacOS). As my MacBook is new, I don't have a lot of stuff in it. I just want to merge all the other partitions into the main one (its a chaos).

Here are some screenshots.

 

[maflynn]

Did you try removing it, using the Boot Camp Assistant utility?

 

[idomeneas]

Yes I did. Following ERROR:
The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.
The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.

 

[maflynn]

Try booting into Recover Mode (reboot and hold the cmd-r keys). From there enter into Disk Utility and see if you can delete the partition and/or merge it

 

[Newtons Apple]

Hmmmm. I seem to remember deleting the Window partition before. It did it without any errors leaving me with just one large Apple partition.

 

[idomeneas]

Try booting into Recover Mode (reboot and hold the cmd-r keys). From there enter into Disk Utility and see if you can delete the partition and/or merge it

No luck with that... Do you want me to run any command in the terminal?
[doublepost=1533037767][/doublepost]

Hmmmm. I seem to remember deleting the Window partition before. It did it without any errors leaving me with just one large Apple partition.

Well I agree, I didn't have any problems whatsoever before... Do you want me to run any terminal commands?
[doublepost=1533037905][/doublepost]I tried this command

 

[maflynn]

The only thing I can recommend is to back it up, delete everything (in recovery mode), and re-install macOS and restore your backup. Since that is rather extreme, I recommend seeing if anyone else can offer to resolve the issue w/o going down that path.

 

[BrianBaughn]

The only thing I can recommend is to back it up, delete everything (in recovery mode), and re-install macOS and restore your backup. Since that is rather extreme, I recommend seeing if anyone else can offer to resolve the issue w/o going down that path.

I don't know of a quick fix either. You should definitely have a backup before attempting anything else.

Requires an external drive...but I think the easiest thing to do would be clone (with Carbon Copy Cloner for example) to an external drive, startup from that new clone, erase the internal drive and clone back.

 

[idomeneas]

Hi,



I just want to have ONE big partition on my MacBook. I did have BootCamp but in some way it got changed/transformed into another kind of partition. BUT sadly the delete button

is greyed out.

Just give me please instructions on how to merge the 86GB partition with my main partition (MacOS).



Thanks in advance.



Screenshots:

 

[BLUEDOG314]

Try erasing the partitions in disk utility, then using terminal "diskutil mergepartition" to combine. This works much better than using disk utility.