Can't make my partitions into a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume.

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Can't make my partitions into a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume.

I tried getting Windows through Boot Camp Assistant but had to stop in the middle. It created a partition called BOOTCAMP and I tried to get Windows again but it wouldn't let me, leaving a message that said "The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition." I already tried deleting it through Disk Utility but had no luck. Can someone please help me make my startup disk a single partition? (maybe through terminal?).

Thanks.

This was the output from terminal of 'diskutil list'.

/dev/disk0 (internal):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 387.0 GB disk0s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data OSXRESERVED 8.0 GB disk0s3

4: Apple_HFS BOOTCAMP 104.8 GB disk0s4

5: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk0s5

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +387.0 GB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 106.2 GB disk1s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 46.2 MB disk1s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 517.0 MB disk1s3

4: APFS Volume VM 1.1 GB disk1s4

MacBook Pro 13", 10.14

Posted on Feb 7, 2019 5:13 AM

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Answer 1

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Loner T

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Feb 7, 2019 12:43 PM in response to junasano

Run

Step 1

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC3 disk0s5

diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s5

diskutil list

Step 2

If you see only disk0s3 as the last entry under disk0, then run

diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3

and retry removing the partition using BC Assistant only.

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Answer 2

junasano Author

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Feb 7, 2019 8:18 PM in response to Loner T

I did step 1 but there was no option on BC Assistant to delete it (only to install and disk0s3 wasn't the last entry under disk0 but I tried step 2 and now its giving me the same error message again on BC Assistant.

Thanks for the help.

This is the result of 'diskutil list' now.

/dev/disk0 (internal):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 387.0 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_HFS BC2 104.8 GB disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +387.0 GB disk1

Physical Store disk0s2