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Can't get rid of partitions after failed bootcamp.

Trying to get my drive back to being a single volume as it was before. Disk utility wont let me erase or partition the new volumes. Please let me know what I can do! Thankyou


Here is a screenshot of my diskutil list:

Posted on Nov 11, 2019 9:04 PM

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Posted on Nov 13, 2019 3:39 AM

  • Step 1


In your specific case, given the current state, try


diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC3 disk0s5

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC4 disk0s6

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC5 disk0s7


diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s7

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.


  • Step 3


If you want to install Windows again, disconnect all external storage, run a SMC and NCRAM Reset and try BC Assistant.

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Nov 13, 2019 3:39 AM in response to Bau8

  • Step 1


In your specific case, given the current state, try


diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s3

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC3 disk0s5

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC4 disk0s6

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC5 disk0s7


diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s7

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.


  • Step 3


If you want to install Windows again, disconnect all external storage, run a SMC and NCRAM Reset and try BC Assistant.

Nov 12, 2019 7:38 AM in response to Loner T

I did a reboot and copy pasted the diskutil list. Let me know if you need anything else, thanks!



Last login: Tue Nov 12 10:30:54 on console


dhcp-58-202:~ bautista$ diskutil list


/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *500.3 GB   disk0


   1:                        EFI EFI                     209.7 MB   disk0s1


   2:                 Apple_APFS Container disk1         400.6 GB   disk0s2


   3:           Windows Recovery                         554.7 MB   disk0s3


   4:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk0s4


   5:         Microsoft Reserved                         16.8 MB    disk0s5


   6:                  Apple_HFS new                     96.2 GB    disk0s6


   7:                        EFI NO NAME                 104.9 MB   disk0s7




/dev/disk1 (synthesized):


   #:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER


   0:      APFS Container Scheme -                      +400.6 GB   disk1


                                 Physical Store disk0s2


   1:                APFS Volume Macintosh HD            280.2 GB   disk1s1


   2:                APFS Volume Preboot                 28.3 MB    disk1s2


   3:                APFS Volume Recovery                519.5 MB   disk1s3


   4:                APFS Volume VM                      1.1 GB     disk1s4




dhcp-58-202:~ bautista$ 

Can't get rid of partitions after failed bootcamp.

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