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


This or similar articles https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp1599/mac

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Jul 8, 2020 2:58 AM in response to rod12dox

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


This or similar articles https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp1599/mac

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