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Duplicate harddrives

how do I remove duplicate hard drives from my iMac with OS X Catalina. every time I reinstall I get another duplication of my hard drive

iMac with Retina 5K display, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jul 8, 2020 1:56 AM

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Posted on Jul 8, 2020 2:58 AM

you have been reinstalling on top rather than erasing first. You probably have more than one Data partition.

You will have to reinstall using the Erase/reformat option and recover data from backup


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Duplicate harddrives

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