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I have MacBook Pro by mistake I erase the macOS by mistake after apple help and many hours on call I reinstall the macOS but the actual size of memory it's not showing I was installed windows and it takes from the memory 75GB of 512GB but when I delete the windows to recovery the OS it take only the size of windows 75GB the remaining GB's it's not showing on partition any idea to retrieve the remaining partition please help

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MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.2

Posted on Jun 1, 2021 3:06 PM

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bandar167 wrote:

I have MacBook Pro by mistake I erase the macOS by mistake after apple help and many hours on call I reinstall the macOS but the actual size of memory it's not showing I was installed windows and it takes from the memory 75GB of 512GB but when I delete the windows to recovery the OS it take only the size of windows 75GB the remaining GB's it's not showing on partition any idea to retrieve the remaining partition please help
thank you
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/e5ff4102-2dea-49dc-a60c-3fc1fe471ae8
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/8c96a62b-b83e-418f-8dc9-abed7925b7b3


If the Diskutil in your screen shot does not allow to increase the storage space back to the total available...


Your way forward is verify you have your user data backed up before you proceed in order to restore your user.


From Internet Recovery>DiskUtility>View>Show All Devices you need to erase/format/initialize the parent drive as new—in order to re-gain all your drive space.


How to erase your Intel-based Mac - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496

How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904



Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac - Apple Support https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/restore-files-mh11422/mac


you can use the use the Migration Assistant.

How to move your content to a new Mac https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204350



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Jun 1, 2021 3:22 PM in response to bandar167

bandar167 wrote:

I have MacBook Pro by mistake I erase the macOS by mistake after apple help and many hours on call I reinstall the macOS but the actual size of memory it's not showing I was installed windows and it takes from the memory 75GB of 512GB but when I delete the windows to recovery the OS it take only the size of windows 75GB the remaining GB's it's not showing on partition any idea to retrieve the remaining partition please help
thank you
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/e5ff4102-2dea-49dc-a60c-3fc1fe471ae8
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/8c96a62b-b83e-418f-8dc9-abed7925b7b3


If the Diskutil in your screen shot does not allow to increase the storage space back to the total available...


Your way forward is verify you have your user data backed up before you proceed in order to restore your user.


From Internet Recovery>DiskUtility>View>Show All Devices you need to erase/format/initialize the parent drive as new—in order to re-gain all your drive space.


How to erase your Intel-based Mac - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208496

How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204904



Restore items backed up with Time Machine on Mac - Apple Support https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/restore-files-mh11422/mac


you can use the use the Migration Assistant.

How to move your content to a new Mac https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204350



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