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Q: Delete Partition El Capitan

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I am using a late 2012 21.5 inch iMac on the latest version of El Capitan. I previously had widows 7 installed using boot camp. I no longer require this so I am trying to remove the partition from my hard drive. I have used disk utility to erase the drive and format it in OSX Journaled, but there is no longer any options to completely remove the partion and increase the standard mac partition.

 

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This is my current progress and I can't seem to find anyway to just merge the BOOTCAMP and Mac HD drive together to total back to 1TB

 

Thank you for any replies in advanced,

Aaron Barratt

iMac (21.5-inch, Late 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11), null

Posted on Oct 5, 2015 3:13 PM

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  • by aarontbarratt,Solvedanswer

    aarontbarratt aarontbarratt Oct 5, 2015 3:25 PM in response to aarontbarratt
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    Oct 5, 2015 3:25 PM in response to aarontbarratt

    I just figured it out -.- I am a dummy. Sorry about the pointless post, this could probably just be deleted and closed now!

  • by jensrod,

    jensrod jensrod Oct 18, 2015 5:12 AM in response to aarontbarratt
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    Oct 18, 2015 5:12 AM in response to aarontbarratt

    How did you do this??

  • by aarontbarratt,Helpful

    aarontbarratt aarontbarratt Oct 18, 2015 5:21 AM in response to jensrod
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    Oct 18, 2015 5:21 AM in response to jensrod

    Instead of clicking on the drive you want to get rid of and just clicking erase, you need to click on the over all drive and then click partition. It should look like this.

     

    Screen Shot 2015-10-18 at 13.17.04.png

    Screen Shot 2015-10-18 at 13.17.09.png

    You can then select which partition you want to remove and remove it by using the minus symbol in the bottom left.

     

    *Note, I took this screenshots from a different Mac that I own, that is why the names of the drives are different to my original post.

  • by jensrod,

    jensrod jensrod Oct 18, 2015 5:55 AM in response to aarontbarratt
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    Oct 18, 2015 5:55 AM in response to aarontbarratt

    Grate

  • by davewfairless,

    davewfairless davewfairless May 14, 2016 9:34 PM in response to aarontbarratt
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    May 14, 2016 9:34 PM in response to aarontbarratt

    Hi, Ive done all of these steps correctly but am finding that I can not select the Drive i want to remove. ( - )

     

    DU won't let me select any of the drives unless its the main one and I can only make it smaller.

  • by nick1941,

    nick1941 nick1941 May 20, 2016 7:09 AM in response to davewfairless
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    May 20, 2016 7:09 AM in response to davewfairless

    I am having the same problem on my iMac running OS X 10.11.5. I select my extra partition, erase it, then select the all drive, but when I select the extra partition, it has the option greyed out and only allows me to continue to and created more partitions from that one? I just want to merge the secondary partition back to the main Macintosh HD? IS this possible?

  • by davewfairless,

    davewfairless davewfairless May 20, 2016 7:23 AM in response to nick1941
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    May 20, 2016 7:23 AM in response to nick1941

    Hey dude, I found that you need to erase everything off all of your drives. Only until then will it let you merge everything back into one by partitioning the main drive again.

  • by nick1941,

    nick1941 nick1941 May 20, 2016 7:33 AM in response to davewfairless
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    May 20, 2016 7:33 AM in response to davewfairless

    Thanks! I have cleaned and backed up any files i wanted to save and was considering just reformatting/reinstalling the entire system back for a nice pristine OS X again. I assume I will have to do this remotely from another mac computer connected to my iMac? Does that sound about right?

  • by RaajP,

    RaajP RaajP Jun 19, 2016 9:18 AM in response to aarontbarratt
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    Jun 19, 2016 9:18 AM in response to aarontbarratt

    OMG! Thanks I was on the phone with apple for about an hour yesterday telling me to do pointless stuff that i have already tried. LIFESAVER!

  • by Greg Meador,

    Greg Meador Greg Meador Jul 30, 2016 1:12 PM in response to aarontbarratt
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    Jul 30, 2016 1:12 PM in response to aarontbarratt

    There's an easier and maybe more thorough way of doing this.

     

    I realize this is an older post but it still came up close to the top of a Google search some I'm posting this so it may help future searchers.

     

    I found the following procedure at http://www.macworld.co.uk/how-to/mac/delete-boot-camp-partition-from-mac-3496241 /

     

    1. Make sure that nobody else is logged on (log out other users by switching to them and choosing Apple > Log Out)
    2. Quit all other open apps
    3. Launch boot camp assistant and click Continue
    4. Select Remove Windows 7 or later version then click Continue
    5. If your Mac has a single internal hard drive, click Restore
    6. If your Mac has more than one drive select the Windows disk and click Restore Disk to a Single Partition then click Continue

    Boot Camp Assistant will then go through the process of removing the Windows partition from the Mac.

    Note that all the files will be deleted from the Windows disk so be sure to backup all important data from the Windows partition before removing the partition. This does not remove the Boot Camp Assistant from your Mac, which will remain in the Applications folder (it’s best to keep it around in case you need it again).

     

    After performing the above procedure I also found Boot Camp: Remove Windows from your Mac from Apple.


     

    How you remove Windows from your Mac depends on whether you installed Windows on a disk that has multiple partitions or one that has a single partition.

    Important: Back up all important data stored on your Windows partition.

     

    If you installed Windows on a disk that has multiple partitions

    1. Start up your Mac in OS X.
    2. Quit all open apps and log out any other users.
    3. Open Boot Camp Assistant, then click Continue.
    4. Select “Remove Windows 7 or later version,” then click Continue.
    5. Do one of the following:
      • If your Mac has a single internal disk, click Restore.
      • If your Mac has multiple internal disks, select the Windows disk, select “Restore disk to a single OS X partition,” then click Continue.

     

    If you installed Windows on a disk that has a single partition

    1. Start up your Mac in OS X.
    2. Open Disk Utility, located in the Other folder in Launchpad.
    3. Select the Windows disk, click Erase, choose the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, then click the Erase button.

     

    Last Modified: Jun 10, 2014

    Hope this helps anyone else like me that 1) Realized that I just missed the free Windows 10 upgrade and 2) Realized I haven't booted up in the last 2 or more years and done anything other than spending a couple of hours upgrading everything Windows and 3) Realized I have better use for the 250GB of space the Bootcamp partition for an unused Windows app was using.

    Wow, that's a lot of realizing.  :-)