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The boot disk can not be partitioned or restored to a single partition.

Hello, I bought a few days before the mac . I need to have windows to handle a scanner , so I tried Boot Camp . Unfortunately , I do not know how, but after several failed attempts , I found that Boot Camp does not work now and reports "The boot disk can not be partitioned or restored to a single partition . " I tried deleting the volumes added from windows , but it is likely that it has remained one for error ( EFI ). This is the current situation:

/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 959.4 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: EFI NO NAME 104.9 MB disk0s4

/dev/disk1 (internal):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme 24.0 GB disk1

1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk1s1

2: Apple_CoreStorage Macintosh HD 23.6 GB disk1s2

3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s3

/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD +982.0 GB disk2

Logical Volume on disk1s2, disk0s2

79068DB8-F40B-4F92-A98D-20948AA81B80

Unencrypted Fusion Drive

I suppose the problem is the volume /dev/disk0s4. So it is?
Can I delete it with a control terminal?

iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, Late 2015), OS X El Capitan (10.11.1), Windows10

Posted on Dec 7, 2015 1:05 PM

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Posted on Dec 11, 2015 1:17 PM

1. What is the 24GB internal disk?

2. You may end up backing up OSX and erasing the internal drive in Internet Recovery and restoring from backup. The EFI 104.9 MB is a Windows EFI partition, which should not be there at all.

3. Before you make the next attempt, please run the following two procedures with all external storage disconnected.

Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support

How to Reset NVRAM on your Mac - Apple Support

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The boot disk can not be partitioned or restored to a single partition.

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