Hi, I didn't read about BCA before I went into Disk Utility and erased my bootcamp partition.
So now I have my 250SSD showing 200GB partition/600MB free space/50GB Bootcamp.
I've tried most things I've seen on forums and nothing seems to work.
If it makes a difference, my aim is to factory reset the 2012 rMBP.
Heeeeeeelp!
MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Do you have a Time Machine back up of your OS X Installation? If yes, please see Re: failed windows 8.1 installation through bootcamp .
I Do not have anything backed up.
I have migrated everything to my other Mac.
so this one needs a factory reset to sell.
Please see What to do before selling or giving away your Mac - Apple Support . Please also see Step 5 and How to reinstall OS X - Apple Support as well.
None of that tells me how to remove that partition.
I've gone through those steps and just reinstalling OSX.
But I'm still going to have a partition that I can't delete.
How can I do it?
Obviously if I had used Bootcamp Assistant I wouldn't have a problem but there must be a way to remove it, surely. I've read several other threads and none of them seem to do the trick.
Academy333 wrote:
None of that tells me how to remove that partition. I've gone through those steps and just reinstalling OSX.But I'm still going to have a partition that I can't delete. How can I do it?
When you re-install OS X, you can either re-install in the partition that already has OS X and overwrite it, or erase the whole disk and do the same. You seem to be erasing the partition, but not the disk. Boot into Internet Recovery, In the console, run Disk Utility, and click on the outermost disk (full disk) and click on Erase, then re-install OS X.
Obviously if I had used Bootcamp Assistant I wouldn't have a problem but there must be a way to remove it, surely. I've read several other threads and none of them seem to do the trick.
BC Assistant erases and merges partitions. If you need OS X Terminal commands to do this live, I can provide them. Please post the output of following OS X Terminal commands
diskutil list
diskutil cs list
What I did was to install a fresh version of OSX in the normal partition.
When I did this I could boot into Internet Recovery, run Disk Utility, and delete the bootcamp partition (by pressing "-" below it once selected) and then extend the original partition to the full size (not sure if I just typed it in, dragged the box, or typed "0" in the partition box). But that's the first time it had allowed me to do anything. Thanks.
Can't delete Bootcamp partition after erasing it
