I want to restore all my disk containers into one and basically get all my storage back!

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vaibhav97 Author

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I want to restore all my disk containers into one and basically get all my storage back!

MacBook

Posted on Aug 27, 2019 1:41 AM

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Loner T

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Aug 27, 2019 4:14 AM in response to vaibhav97

In your specific case, given the current state, try

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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vaibhav97 Author

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Aug 27, 2019 6:26 AM in response to Loner T

I have performed the above steps and I dont see disk0s3 as the last entry under disk 0, but as when I first tried to partition my Mac through BC Assistant and it failed(which is the cause of the entire problem). I was experimenting restoring it which clearly did not happen. However, I dont know how to restore using BC assistant as acc. to It my Mac was never partitioned. Now this is all it shows

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vaibhav97 Author

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Aug 27, 2019 1:41 AM in response to vaibhav97

Output of diskutil list

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/dev/disk0 (internal):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                         251.0 GB   disk0

   1:                        EFI EFI                     314.6 MB   disk0s1

   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         194.0 GB   disk0s2

   3:       Microsoft Basic Data OSXRESERVED             8.0 GB     disk0s3

   4:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                24.3 GB    disk0s4

   5:       Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP                24.1 GB    disk0s5



/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER

   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +194.0 GB   disk1

                                 Physical Store disk0s2

   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            175.9 GB   disk1s1

   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 23.1 MB    disk1s2

   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                519.0 MB   disk1s3

   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4
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