get rid of efi partition
hello!
i have a macbook pro mid 2012 13", running on macos x el capitan. i have a problem regarding this lingering efi partition in my mac which is hindering me from installing windows through bootcamp. i think this first showed up after i wiped out windows without using bootcamp. i have tried numerous methods but they have not worked at all. a lot of developments though have occurred since i last did those, and one is that it doesn't show up anymore on the bootable drives list when pressing option upon startup. another is that when doing diskutil list in terminal, instead of EFI type and a name EFI, it now shows "Apple_HFS" instead and doesn't have a name. it does have the same storage and the same disk number as the EFI partition had before it changed somehow...
here is a snippet of the diskutil list:
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk0
1: Apple_HFS 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage macOS 249.2 GB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
/dev/disk1 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS macOS +248.8 GB disk1
Logical Volume on disk0s2
BBDB92AB-136D-47BB-9186-6CB6A4C8B2CE
Unencrypted
these are the commands i've used so far to try and fix the problem:
sudo mkdir /Volumes/EFI
sudo mount -t msdos /dev/disk0s1 /Volumes/EFI
cd /Volumes/EFI/EFI
rm -rf Microsoft
rm -rf Boot (i saw it on some YT video and they said it might help)
please help me! thank you~
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.1
