Can't find partition created for Kali Linux dual boot

I had dual booted Kali Linux on my Mac Pro, it was working fine till yesterday, I upgraded the Kali distro and after reboot kali was not booting(due to some issue with the new upgrade). I tried everything but couldn't downgrade it, neither it was booting. So I tried deleting it using disk utility from OS X, it was not available in the app so I booted in recovery mode and tried from there, after that the partition probably got deleted because it is not visible now. How to retrieve that disk space, is the kali distro deleted?

Posted on Sep 9, 2019 9:26 AM

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Sep 9, 2019 9:51 AM in response to krishnasinghal

krishnasinghal wrote:

How to reinitialise the drive, I tried that from recovery mode, it won't work.

I don't have a time machine backup.

I don't have much data to restore. Is there any way I can reset the system.

Yes from Recovery

DiskUtility>View>Show All Devices

You want to reformat/initilize the parent drive.

Recovery: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904

3-2-1 Backup Strategy: three copies of your data, two different methods, and one offsite.

Boot clone https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-10081

How to use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250

Use DiskUtility Restore feature https://support.apple.com/guide/disk-utility/restore-a-disk-dskutl14062/mac

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Sep 9, 2019 9:28 AM in response to krishnasinghal

Re-initilize the drive is the most staright forward way to regain all space.

Restore user data from a backup.

How to use Time Machine to back up or restore your Mac: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201250

Boot clone https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-10081

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Sep 9, 2019 9:32 AM in response to leroydouglas

How to reinitialise the drive, I tried that from recovery mode, it won't work.

I don't have a time machine backup.

I don't have much data to restore. Is there any way I can reset the system.

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Sep 9, 2019 11:18 AM in response to leroydouglas

Hi,

Thank you for your help. Here is the screenshot of disk space, does that mean that the space has been recovered.

Because if it is then I won't have to reset the system.

Thank you

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