Q: Boot Camp - The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition
Hi,
Would really appreciate some help on this!
I tried installing Windows 7 on my iMac 2015 but during windows installation it prompted that the partition needs to be format in a different way.
Now when I try to use Boot Camp again I keep getting this message:
The startup disk cannot be partitioned or restored to a single partition.
The startup disk must be formatted as a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) volume or already partitioned by Boot Camp Assistant for installing Windows.
The problem is that I can't erase the Boot Camp Partition in no way using Disk Utility.
If it's any help - this is the diskutil list:
haraldsiMac:~ haralddegraaf$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *2.0 TB disk0
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage fusion 1.7 TB disk0s2
3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3
4: Apple_HFS bootcamp 252.8 GB disk0s6
/dev/disk1 (internal, physical):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: GUID_partition_scheme *121.3 GB disk1
1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk1s1
2: Apple_CoreStorage fusion 121.0 GB disk1s2
3: Apple_Boot Boot OS X 134.2 MB disk1s3
/dev/disk2 (internal, virtual):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_HFS Fusion +1.7 TB disk2
Logical Volume on disk1s2, disk0s2
0D7254CA-C937-4A69-A2AA-AC689844B16F
Unencrypted Fusion Drive
/dev/disk3 (disk image):
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Boot Camp +1.2 GB disk3
haraldsiMac:~ haralddegraaf$
haraldsiMac:~ haralddegraaf$ sudo gpt -r show /dev/disk0
start size index contents
0 1 PMBR
1 1 Pri GPT header
2 32 Pri GPT table
34 6
40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B
409640 3394638832 2 GPT part - 53746F72-6167-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3395048472 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3396318008 16782536
3413100544 493666440 4 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC
3906766984 262151
3907029135 32 Sec GPT table
3907029167 1 Sec GPT header
haraldsiMac:~ haralddegraaf$
iMac with Retina 5K display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.6)
Posted on Sep 3, 2016 5:27 PM
The Macs listed in Install Windows 7 and earlier on your Mac using Boot Camp - Apple Support support W7. 2015 Macs do not support W7.
The only supported method to remove Windows from a Fusion drive Mac is using Boot Camp: Remove Windows from your Mac . Do not use Disk Utility.
You seem to have attempted a DU erase (not removal of a partition), at least once. Your BC partition is now an HFS+ partition. Convert it back to a FAT32 partition in DU, and then try to remove it using the link provided.
If you cannot remove it using BCA, then use the steps in Re: failed windows 8.1 installation through bootcamp .
Posted on Sep 4, 2016 1:56 PM