How to delete partition? The minus button greyed out

Hi Team,


I have a problem on my macbook (retina, 12-inch, early 2016, running High sierra). There are two partitions I cannot remove from disk utility, the minus button greyed out.


What I can do to restore back to single partition 250G?


Thanks.


Daniel

MacBook

Posted on Jan 4, 2020 5:25 PM

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Posted on Jan 6, 2020 7:13 PM

You can't remove the active partition. A bit like pulling the rug out from underneath the dinner table while everyone is eating a meal. Not a good idea, so it's not allowed. Boot from another disk and you'll be able to repartition the internal drive. See instructions at https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201372


Good luck...

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