Would like to remove all of my partitions

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Would like to remove all of my partitions

Hello friends, I'm hoping you can help me out today. I have had both windows and linux on my mac and would now like to remove all partitions associated with them.

One problem is that disk utility is not showing the partitions and the partition button is greyed out.

When I go into the terminal and use "diskutil list" It only displays the linux partition while the windows one (70gb) does not display.

I don't know what to try next but would like to remove all of my partitions so that I only have my mac drive (and I guess the recovery hd is okay too)

i've it helps to post the "sudo gpt -vv -r show /dev/disk0"

osx: 10.11.4

Macbook pro 13 inch early 2011

Please let me know what you think!

Posted on Apr 29, 2016 5:48 PM

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Answer 1

LowLuster

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Apr 29, 2016 5:53 PM in response to Fusionerr

Since the Linux partition is at the end of the drive you can do that with Disk Utility. Delete the Linux partition and it will become available in the Recovery HD space. Merge it with that then resize your partitions. In fact since the Recovery HD is a Hidden partition it might turn up to merge with the Macintosh HD partitions.

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Fusionerr Author

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Apr 29, 2016 5:57 PM in response to LowLuster

Thank you for your reply, currently disk utility is not letting me do much as all of the options are greyed out, is there a way to fix this?

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steve359

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Apr 29, 2016 6:02 PM in response to Fusionerr

If the partitions are simple data partitions and *not* bootable systems, there should be no issue. If you added Windows as Bootcamp and ReFIt for Linux, the untangling could be hazardous ... the easiest way is probably make a clone on external disk of the main-OSX and Recovery Partitions, then reformat and clone back.

If you want the bootable partitions removed without breaking the OSX partition, others in the Bootcamp forum are VERY good at unraveling such tangles and the thread can be relocated. Either way, get a backup of your full OSX partition before you start ANY operation.

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LowLuster

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Apr 29, 2016 6:04 PM in response to Fusionerr

Boot to the recovery HD and try it from there.

Post a screen shot of the partition tab of Disk Utility.

Are you selecting the last partition then hit the Minus ( - ) sign at the bottom of the window.

Make sure you are booted to Mac OS X.

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LowLuster

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Apr 29, 2016 6:06 PM in response to Fusionerr

Sorry I'm use to and using a older version of OS X. Have not seen that screen shot you posted of Disk Utility.

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Fusionerr Author

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Apr 29, 2016 7:03 PM in response to Fusionerr

Edit: Solved! Seems everything is working now, Thanks everyone for your help!

Thank you everyone for your input. here is a status update:

I backed up all of my important files
I went into recovery mode and formatted linux partition which fixed disk utility
Bootcamp appeared again, and I combined the linux and bootcamp into a partition but I cannot delete the combined one into the main drive

notice the - button is greyed out

Thanks for all of the help so far, what do I do next?

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