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Q: I have two recovery partitions and they prevent me from using Bootcamp

Dear all:

 

I upgraded to mac os sierra when it came out, however before that, I had been trying it out in the Beta Software Program, in a partition installed with El Capitan. After, I deleted that portion, but I wasn'taware there was an apple_boot  recovery HD partition that remained.

 

However, now I am trying to install BootCamp on my Mac but I found that it has 2 recovery partitions. I´m guessing one for the Beta one and one for the final release. But, as I found out, in other to install BootCamp, I need to make my disk as a single partition.

 

The disk layout is as follow:

 

/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_HFS Macintosh HD            2.0 TB     disk0s2

   3:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s3

   4:                 Apple_Boot Recovery HD             650.0 MB   disk0s4

 

After searching for a possible solution, I read that I would need to either delete or merge one of them to the Main Partition. However, I cannot figure out which one (either disk0s3 o disk0s4) I need to get rid because when I restart and press the alt/option key, I´m presented with two identical recovery partitions labeled "Recovery-10.12".

 

So, my questions are:

 

  1. Which partition to delete
  2. How to delete it in a (preferably safe) way that would make my hard disk "a single partition" of everything but my main Macintosh HD partition in order to be able to use Bootcamp.

 

Thanks

iMac, macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Oct 21, 2016 12:13 PM