erikjasper

Q: 500gb hard drive shows only 150gbs.

I installed a new 500GH SSHD hard drive and partitioned it in order to install Ubuntu or Linux Mint, but decided afterwards that I didn't want to install Linux. I tried to erase the partition but it would not let me, so I've only had 150GBs of space on my back.

 

How do I recover the other 350GBs of storage?

 

Here are screenshots.

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Thank you in advance.

MacBook Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5), Early 2011 Macbook Pro

Posted on Jul 25, 2016 4:50 PM

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  • by theratter,Solvedanswer

    theratter theratter Jul 26, 2016 11:21 AM in response to erikjasper
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    Jul 26, 2016 11:21 AM in response to erikjasper

    If you created a Linux partition on the disk, then you will need to use Linux to remove it. Disk Utility cannot handle Linux disks and partitions. The images you provided don't make a lot of sense. It shows a 500 GB disk with around 90% accounting for 150 GBs while the rest of the disk is only 4 GBs. Clearly there is a problem. You will need to use GParted in Linux to restore the disk to one full-sized partition. Set the disk to be formatted using MBR and FAT32. The OS X utility, Disk Utility, can read/write that format so you can then re-partition it using GUID and format the disk using Mac OS Extended, Journaled.

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    erikjasper erikjasper Jul 26, 2016 11:20 AM in response to theratter
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    Jul 26, 2016 11:20 AM in response to theratter

    Thank you very much. This did it.