I admit it, I made a big mistake, I partitioned my Hard Drive on my MacBook Air some tears ago! I won't ever do that again, so how do I unpartition it now? I know it might mean restoring factory settings but that's fine as I usually only use it for as a capturing device when shooting client's projects.
Any help you can offer will be gratefully received, thank you.
Huggy
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 10.15
About macOS Recovery - Apple Support
How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - Apple Support
Use Dusk Utility in Recovery mode, erase the drive with a single partition, then reinstall macOS.
About macOS Recovery - Apple Support
How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - Apple Support
Use Dusk Utility in Recovery mode, erase the drive with a single partition, then reinstall macOS.
Thanks for posting that. It looks like there’s another partition named “Photo HD”, located directly between your main APFS Container and the “Client’s Work HD” partition.
In order to give more space to Macintosh HD, you’ll need to first destroy “Photo HD”, and then destroy “Client’s Work HD”. I recommend doing the following:
Thanks for clarifying. Based on this, I don’t think that you’ll need to erase your Mac to solve this issue. Nonetheless, please post the output of diskutil list as described above. Doing so helps a lot with understanding the exact situation with your Mac’s internal drive.
Ok. It’s safe to ignore this message for now.
What does the terminal show if you type diskutil list and hit Enter (Return)?
Thanks for clarifying. Based on this, I don’t think that you’ll need to erase your Mac to solve this issue. Nonetheless, please post the output of diskutil list as described above. Doing so helps a lot with understanding the exact situation with your Mac’s internal drive.
Hi there,
sorry but it’s an internal SSD and I partitioned it into 3!
Basically I’m trying to unpartition my partitioned MacBook SSD 2013
what I’m trying to do is download Big Sur but I’ve only got about 6 or 7 GB on ‘MAC HD’ but I’ve got 30GB free in the partition that I’ve called Clients Work, which I’m trying to give back to MAC HD.
i hope I haven’t confused things further!
Thank you for that.
unfortunately I don’t know how to be in Restore mode.
i know what erase the drive means but what do you mean when you say with a single partition? If you are able to help, please would you speak as if I’m 5, slowly and in detail. I’m sorry to be a pain but I am rather grateful
Thank you for that. The Terminal reads :
The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit https://support.apple.com/kb/HT208050.
Nicks-Air:~ Nick$
Hope this makes sense
Thanks
Nick
It then says :
Nicks-Air:~ Nick$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_APFS Container disk1 79.3 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_HFS Photo HD 11.2 GB disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS Client's Work HD 30.4 GB disk0s4
/dev/disk1 (synthesized):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: APFS Container Scheme - +79.3 GB disk1
Physical Store disk0s2
1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD - Data 57.1 GB disk1s1
2: APFS Volume Preboot 81.4 MB disk1s2
3: APFS Volume Recovery 528.9 MB disk1s3
4: APFS Volume VM 2.1 GB disk1s4
5: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 11.3 GB disk1s5
/dev/disk2 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme +138.5 MB disk2
1: Apple_HFS CleanMyMac X 138.4 MB disk2s1
Nicks-Air:~ Nick$
Encryptor, THANK YOU SO MUCH!! That's brilliant and you're a star, that seems to have done the trick. Thanks again, I really appreciate it.
Huggy
Hi Huggy71,
Can you please do the following:
This will show the exact, current partition layout for your Mac and for all drives connected to it.
Un-partition the Hard Drives
