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How can I remove this partition?

I recently tried installing windows through Boot Camp but gave up a little ways through after seeing how much space it was going to take up. I never got to finish setting up windows but I did get it to the point where it asked me which drive I wanted it on . When I restarted my computer I went to bootcamp to remove the windows partition and got the message:

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It seems 2 new partitions were made along with the new windows one: Windows Recovery (472 MB), Windows Reserved (16.8 MB)

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I have tried:

1. Going to disk utility and simply removing the second partition. The "-" is grayed out when I select the new partition and there is a message underneath the partition information saying "You can not remove this volume because the previous volume can not be resized."

2. Erasing the volume in recovery mode. I erased it and reformatted it as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) but still couldn't remove it through disk utility after restarting.


How can I go back to having one single volume? I am open to any options (including resetting everything on my macbook to factory settings if it will return it to a single volume). I do have Time Machine setup with recent backups of my drive. Thank you!!


[I am running macOS Sierrra 10.12.2 Beta on a 13 inch Macbook Pro (Retina mid-2014 model), 3GHz Intel Core i7, 256GB Flash Storage, 16GB of memory (just in case any of this helps)]

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.5)

Posted on Dec 12, 2016 12:22 PM

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Mar 5, 2018 5:32 AM in response to 3781637

3781637 wrote:


Hello,

I'm guessing you must be tired of answering this question about merging the partitioned drive, but can you help one more?


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Run


diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC1 disk0s4

diskutil mergePartitions jhfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s4


If you see only disk0s3, then


diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3


and run BCA to Remove/Restore.

Mar 5, 2018 11:57 AM in response to Loner T

Hello,

Thank you for the help. Unfortunately I spent hours and hours yesterday trying to fix this issue and changes were made prior to your advice (mistakes were made). Can you please take look at my new configuration and let me know how to fix it? (I will not attempt to fix this, or change anything, until hearing from you this time). Thank you so much.

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Mar 5, 2018 2:58 PM in response to Loner T

Yes I see 🙂, and thanks again.


Last login: Mon Mar 5 13:49:20 on ttys000

Ryans-MacBook:~ ryan$ diskutil list

/dev/disk0 (internal):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme 500.3 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 314.6 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_APFS Container disk2 370.4 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_APFS Container disk1 120.8 GB disk0s3

4: Apple_Boot 134.2 MB disk0s4


/dev/disk1 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +120.8 GB disk1

Physical Store disk0s3

1: APFS Volume BOOTCAMP 1.8 MB disk1s1


/dev/disk2 (synthesized):

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: APFS Container Scheme - +370.4 GB disk2

Physical Store disk0s2

1: APFS Volume Macintosh HD 81.0 GB disk2s1

2: APFS Volume Preboot 56.4 MB disk2s2

3: APFS Volume Recovery 1.5 GB disk2s3

4: APFS Volume VM 2.1 GB disk2s4


Ryans-MacBook:~ ryan$ diskutil apfs list

APFS Containers (2 found)

|

+-- Container disk1 F4D9101C-EF8A-4436-89B4-60C4A0CEEB10

| ====================================================

| APFS Container Reference: disk1

| Capacity Ceiling (Size): 120820137984 B (120.8 GB)

| Capacity In Use By Volumes: 127537152 B (127.5 MB) (0.1% used)

| Capacity Available: 120692600832 B (120.7 GB) (99.9% free)

| |

| +-< Physical Store disk0s3 A618E32F-A6DB-4F54-90F5-D99C087EF0B9

| | -----------------------------------------------------------

| | APFS Physical Store Disk: disk0s3

| | Size: 120820137984 B (120.8 GB)

| |

| +-> Volume disk1s1 13FDB0EA-ECA5-4915-94F4-3F905004E970

| ---------------------------------------------------

| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk1s1 (No specific role)

| Name: BOOTCAMP (Case-insensitive)

| Mount Point: /Volumes/BOOTCAMP

| Capacity Consumed: 1781760 B (1.8 MB)

| FileVault: No

|

+-- Container disk2 750052F3-B524-49BF-9633-65F975D2C925

====================================================

APFS Container Reference: disk2

Capacity Ceiling (Size): 370358767616 B (370.4 GB)

Capacity In Use By Volumes: 84861333504 B (84.9 GB) (22.9% used)

Capacity Available: 285497434112 B (285.5 GB) (77.1% free)

|

+-< Physical Store disk0s2 47C98392-E041-490F-8A47-D83E14849F25

| -----------------------------------------------------------

| APFS Physical Store Disk: disk0s2

| Size: 370358767616 B (370.4 GB)

|

+-> Volume disk2s1 3F65AE0C-31B3-42AE-9D8D-D31A73EED1A2

| ---------------------------------------------------

| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk2s1 (No specific role)

| Name: Macintosh HD (Case-insensitive)

| Mount Point: /

| Capacity Consumed: 80978612224 B (81.0 GB)

| FileVault: No

|

+-> Volume disk2s2 09F7D037-9DAF-40D9-AC43-CF4A70FF8AA1

| ---------------------------------------------------

| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk2s2 (Preboot)

| Name: Preboot (Case-insensitive)

| Mount Point: Not Mounted

| Capacity Consumed: 56352768 B (56.4 MB)

| FileVault: No

|

+-> Volume disk2s3 97AD69FE-E07C-4710-9F67-33BEC4C259EE

| ---------------------------------------------------

| APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk2s3 (Recovery)

| Name: Recovery (Case-insensitive)

| Mount Point: Not Mounted

| Capacity Consumed: 1529413632 B (1.5 GB)

| FileVault: No

|

+-> Volume disk2s4 BD9544B0-E8C7-41C2-9815-536F900C5A28

---------------------------------------------------

APFS Volume Disk (Role): disk2s4 (VM)

Name: VM (Case-insensitive)

Mount Point: /private/var/vm

Capacity Consumed: 2147504128 B (2.1 GB)

FileVault: No

Ryans-MacBook:~ ryan$

Mar 5, 2018 3:06 PM in response to 3781637

Run


diskutil apfs deleteVolume 13FDB0EA-ECA5-4915-94F4-3F905004E970

diskutil apfs deleteContainer F4D9101C-EF8A-4436-89B4-60C4A0CEEB10

diskutil eraseVolume jhfs+ BC2 disk0s4

diskutil mergePartitions hfs+ BCMP disk0s3 disk0s4

diskutil list


If you do not see


  • any errors, and,
  • see only disk0s3, but not disk0s4, then run


diskutil eraseVolume fat32 BOOTCAMP disk0s3


and now run BCA and click on Remove/Restore. Post the output of the terminal session, if you see any errors.

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